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Promoting Your Free Book Giveaway

By Lis

If you are still wondering why or how you might have your book available for free, then read the previous post on giving away your eBook for free. However, it’s not enough just to make your book free. You have to tell people about it. You need to tell everyone you know, and far more that…

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Why Would I Want To Give My Book Away for Free?

By Lis

I took a telemarketing call yesterday. It was a power company wanting me to switch my home’s electricity and gas to them. They convinced me — not on their massively cheaper prices, it was marginal, but because they offered me something for free — $200 credit on my first bill. Yes there was a quid pro…

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Printing Costs for Books in New Zealand are Too High

By Lis

Updated October 2018 – to reflect current exchange rates and changes at Amazon  Today, while  procrastinating on the Interwebs,  I  saw an ad on a New Zealand website for a local printer. The business involved provides an on-line calculator for the costs of printing a book with them. Curious, I ran the figures — assuming a…

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DIY Publishing - welcome

Hi and Welcome to DIY Publishing!

By Lis

Hi and thanks for stopping by! We’re aren’t quite ready yet — but what website ever is? Lis and Kris are just too excited to not talk about our little baby DIYPublishing — so it seemed we needed to get this website alive. Our aim is to inform and assist writers who want to get their book…

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