Robertson Publishing Website Review

If you are thinking about publishing a novel, poetry, fiction, hard back or soft check out the Robertson Publishing website. Robertson Publishing is a book Publishing Company that will help you with all your publishing and Distribution needs. They will help you complete your work, promote your work and help generate sells. Robertson Publishing will also proof read and provide you with a review before your material is released and make the necessary corrections.

Robertson Publishing website is simple the color scheme is nice but there in not anything really eye catching about the website when you first go to it other than its name at the top of the opening page. There was not very much color or pictures that capture my attention. However the information provide on the website about their services was very informative.

The content and focus of the website is very clear. First time visitor will know right off back what the purpose of this website and it’s intent. Although the design of the website tends to be a bit boring I would use this website for my services. They provide you with publishing and distribution services. They also go the extra mile to provide their customers with excellent service from what I saw and read about.

All of the hyperlinks work they also provide you with a site map to navigate through the site. The navigation of the site is fairly easy although when trying to go to the tool kit section, which is a hyper link, you have to provide a username and password. It does not give you instruction on how to get a username and password until you click out of the prompted box requesting for your login. It took me a few seconds to figure out what was going.

The content of the website is well written. The also provide you with a words of wisdom page which I thought was really cool and a great marketing tool to gain more business. I did not find any grammatical errors as the content was well put together and clear to the viewers about what they’re purpose was and the nature of their business. Robert Publishing did not have a page for the about me, which was a little confusing at first then I realized that the home page what the page that describe the nature of their business, their location and credentials. In my opinion, that can be a plus and a negative. For those that are looking to read about the company and are not computer or Internet savvy they will be looking for the about me section. For those you want to scheme through and get a general overall idea the information is provided to them as soon as the website is brought up.

The overall content and information of the site will draw business to them as far as the creativity of the design I thing they should hire a web design developer to make their site look more intriguing. However if I were looking for a publishing company I will look more into their services and if your look looking for one I suggest you check them out as well.

Reference:

Robert Publishing

http://www.robertsonpublishing.com/index.html Retrieved August 19, 2011

Joel's Advice on Self Publishing

Like everything else when publishing and distributing material you can face many different issues.  For those of you who would like to learn more about the publishing self publish, and distribution pro’s and con’s visit Joel Friedlander.

Joel Friedlander has an article that talks about the 10 worse self-publishing mistakes. In my opinion mistakes happened because there is a lack of research on the how to. Some people tend to take it in their own hands and publish their own material, which is fine, but research to make sure your decision to publish your own material is not a mistake.

According to Joel Friedlander listed below is the 10 Worse Mistakes a person can make when they decided to self publish and or publish a book period.

“Top 10 Worst Self-Publishing Mistakes

10. You thought you could re-use that ISBN you paid so much for since the novel you put it on last year isn’t selling anyway.

9. Everybody knows the words to the song, so it’s okay to quote lyrics from it throughout your book, right?

8. The photos looked fine on your screen, and that means they will look fine when they’re printed, it just makes sense.

7. I picked Arial for my book because the name reminded me of my middle school girlfriend.

6. I know they’re charging me $6,000 to publish my book, but I get 10 copies, absolutely free!

5. I thought it would sound more impressive if I wrote my memoir in the third person. All my sports heroes talk that way.

4. I really got the unit price down, but I had to print 10,000 copies. You have any room in your garage?

3. Sure, I included an invoice with all the books I sent to book reviewers. Hey, they don’t care, it’s just a big company paying the bill.

2. It was cheaper to print my novel as an 8-1/2″ x 11″ book because I got so many words on each page.

And the number 1 Worst Possible Self-Publishing Mistake:

1. What do you mean, I need a cover designer? Don’t books come with covers?”

Joel Friedlander provides lots and lots of information that will help prepare you for what to do and what not to do when publishing a book. Publishing a book can be lots of work and in order to be success and receive good book reviews and a good sales turn out you must make sure the steps you take are within in scope of the publishing laws and are Ethical. Take time out to learn more about Joel Friedlander he has a lot of advice to offer.

Reference:

Joel Friendlander. 10 Worse Possible Mistakes of Self Publishing. July 5 2010. http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2010/07/top-10-list-of-the-worst-possible-self-publishing-mistakes/ Retrieved August 20, 2011