Seven Advantages of Self-publishing

TO HELP YOU DECIDE IF INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHING YOUR BOOK COULD BE THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR YOU, CHECK OUT THESE SEVEN ADVANTAGES TO SELF-PUBLISHING.

1 YOUR BOOK IS A REFLECTION OF YOU. 

Self-publishing gives you COMPLETE CONTROL over the direction of your book. The decisions are exclusively yours and are not

limited by third-parties with interests and intentions that differ from your own. 

2 PROTECTING YOUR RIGHTS AS AN AUTHOR

As a self-publisher, you own the rights to your book. If you use a traditional publishing house, they own the rights. They may for example decide to stop printing and distributing your book, preventing you from printing additional copies until you purchase the rights back. We will simply produce your book, you retain all the rights. 

3 SHORT PRINT RUNS

You may only require 50 or 100 copies of your book. With the high-tech, modern print technology that we have, we can provide you with this unique service.

4 TESTING THE MARKET

Because your book may be for a niche or specialised interest, self-publishing can be a great way of ‘testing’ the market. A small amount of printed books can for example serve as an

indication of how successful a larger quantity of books would be. Some authors request ‘review copies’ for them to present to publishing houses. 

5 A NICHE MARKET

The book may appeal to a niche or specialised market (e.g. the history of your local sports club) and therefore may not be of interest to a large publishing house. 

6 TIME

Going through a publishing company usually takes much longer, with authors having to wait their turn in long publishing catalogues. Choose to self publish with us however and your book can be ready for the bookstores and online within just four weeks of us receiving your print-ready files. 

7 RE-ORDERING

Lettertec can store your book digitally, which means we can reprint it for you at any time in the future if you wish.

We will also help you to sell your book through our online store lettertecbookstore.com. We can take all the work out of taking payments and posting your book.