Part 4: How to Write and Publish Your First Book in 30 Days – Self-Publishing, Traditional Deals, and Making Real Money

Many people debate, should I get my book published by a traditional publisher like Barbara Collins or Simon and Schuster or Random House or should I self-publish? And for many years, for many decades, there was a stigma about self-publishing. It was called vanity publishing. You would pay a publisher to make a thousand copies of your book and then you would hand it out to your friends and try to get it sold in a bookstore. By the way, some books

were very successful that started off as Bandley publishing. One example that I could think of is The Power of Now by Eckhart Toll, which eventually was published by a regular publisher and sold millions, but originally he just printed up a bunch and was handing them out. And self-publishing is when, in a nutshell, You upload it to Amazon, you upload it to Barnesandnoble.com, maybe you upload it to Apple Books, and you yourself are the publisher. I'm going to focus on that kind of self-publishing versus traditional publishing.

We're not going to be talking about family publishing at all because there is no need for you to pay a dime to publish your book, except for services that we'll talk about in a second. But even then, we're going to do this on a shoestring. This isn't your average business podcast, and he's not your average host. This is the James Altecher Show. First up, what are the benefits of traditional publishing using a HarperCollins?

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