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Where can you publish your book?
You can choose to publish with one or more of them.
- Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Owned by Amazon, KDP publishes and retails ebooks that can be read on Kindle devices or on devices that have installed the Kindle app.
- CreateSpace.
- iBooks.
- Barnes & Noble Press.
- Kobo.
- IngramSpark.
- Smashwords.
- Draft2Digital.
What does copyrighting your book do?
A copyright can protect your book by providing proof of creation and can strengthen the defense against copyright infringement by another entity. For example, a copyright can prevent a bookstore from making and selling its own copies of your writing for profit.
Can my manuscript be stolen by a publisher?
It is rare for a manuscript to be stolen by a publisher, but it is not rare for people to steal your work online. If you publish your work on the web there is a very real chance that someone might decide to take your work. Usually this will consist someone republishing a story or a poem in their name. This can be very difficult to stop.
What happens when you email a manuscript to a publisher?
The author of the email is somewhat frantic usually. They are very concerned that a publisher is going to steal the manuscript, publish it, and leave the author out of the loop of making money from the work. This isn’t a big problems in the publishing world, to be honest.
How to protect unpublished writing from people you plan to work with?
The problem of how to protect unpublished writing from people you plan to work with puzzles many writers. Whether and how you should share work before it has been finalized, published, and protected by an application filed with the Copyright Office is a valid concern.
Do writers need to protect their work from publishers?
This idea, generally, is not how work is plagiarized, and most of the time writers do not need to protect their work from publishers, and they certainly do not need to protect their work from legitimate publishers.