| Many writers and aspiring authors know that | | | | problem because many writers write about |
| finding a publisher that is willing to publish your | | | | current topics if they have to wait six months |
| manuscript for a book is not as easy as it might | | | | someone has already beaten them to the punch |
| seem. Only about one in 75 book proposals | | | | with their book and it is already on the shelves |
| actually results in a book deal. This is why many | | | | where they had hoped to be. |
| writers end up self-publishing and there are | | | | The paper crisis in China is affecting all sorts of |
| companies that will send your manuscript to China, | | | | things and perhaps this will spur on the next |
| where it will be produced and sent back to you. | | | | generation of e-books in the new digital age of |
| The prices of book publishing in China are | | | | book publishing. Already we see compete with |
| relatively inexpensive compared to that in the US. | | | | Sony for handheld PDA size e-book readers. |
| But, now there is a significant problem that is | | | | Maybe that book if you're doing will never be |
| brewing in China and that is the shortage of | | | | published at all but rather it will be available online |
| paper. This means those self-book publishing deals | | | | to anybody who wants to buy it. It is time for all |
| may not be as good as you think. Rather than | | | | writers to keep an open mind because the future |
| getting your first printing back within three weeks | | | | is now here in the digital age is not going away. |
| it could take as long as six months. This is a big | | | | Definitely something to contemplate in 2008. |