APE: Author Publisher Entrepeneur -- the Author

APE - Author Publisher Entrepreneur 

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I will be reviewing, commenting and sharing my feelings about the book. My plan is to read each section of the book [Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur] and posts my review on this blog.

 Author - The first seven chapters deals with the realities of what an author faces trying to publish a book.This is the section that help you answer the question "Should i write a book ?". If after reading this section and you answer is still yes, then it gives you a little bit of guidance on how to start things off. [The Art of the Start - Guy Kawasaki]. I liked that the authors pointed out the mountain that you have to face publishing a book the traditional way because it takes away the fantasy that once you are done writing your manuscript you are on your way to selling a bestseller.The authors also pointed out how self-publishing can start a revolution that everybody can publish a book. Everybody can be an author as long as you are willing to work on it.  So if you are not an author which most of us are not, this section gives you good pointers on how to start writing and how to keep up on it. But the most important part of this section is that if you have the time and the story to write a book, this gives you a sample financial scenario on how much do you need to spend to publish a book. Overall, this section is like the joke where an armed man came into church and asked "Who are willing to die for God?", then everybody stormed out of the church, except for a few, then the armed man looked at the preacher,"There you go pastor, I just got rid of the hypocrites".

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