When you decide to self-publish, you’ve committed yourself to becoming the publisher of your book. Publishers do a lot of things. Here’s a partial list.

• Edit the manuscript (more than once)
• Design the cover
• Design the inside of the book
• Lay out the book
• Arrange for printing
• Arrange for getting the book into distribution
• Take care of creating the ebook version
• Registering the title
• Arranging for the bar code

That’s a partial list of what you’re responsible for when you decide to self-publish. And that means you will either have to do those things yourself or pay someone else to do them.

Bottom Line

Self-publishing may be the right choice for you, but you should make it with your eyes wide open.