Publishing an e-book vs. traditional publishing

Traditional Publishing	E-book publishing (e-book)
Does not have an existing platform (reputation, blog)	Has an existing platform to marker and distribute
Doesn’t need to make money from their book to pay the bills	Will depend more on the book income to survive
Takes several processes before you can launch your product	Faster to launch the product
Time consuming and wastes al lot of resources and money when a book needs to be revised and printed again to share	Free to update your book whenever you want and however through the computer
The author completes his/her manuscript, writes a proposal and submits it to the publishing house where they review it and decide whether it is a good product for sale or not. The publishers then are rightfully allowed to decide on the design and package of the book, prints as many copies of the book as it thinks will sell.	An author who decides to self-publish basically becomes the publisher. The author proofreads the final text and publishes it online for anyone to purchase and view
The many prints of the book may al l not be sold creating various losses	There are no losses in publishing an e-book as you can make as many copies as you like.
Time consuming method to create the book and publish it. The author has to take the book to several publishing houses to look out for their interest in the book. The actual publishing takes another year.	With self-publishing an e-book, as soon as you are done with making the book you can publish it without and consent and re-publish as many revised copies several times which is less time consuming.
With traditional publishing costs are very high due to the printing, editing, advertising and distributing	When publishing tan e-book the costs are usually lower as everything is done online
With traditional publishing, the authors do not have any control over whether the book will be published or not as they need the publishers full consent and acceptance of the literature	The publishing of the book is all under the authors control and they decide whether to publish it online or not.

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