Because of the role that the internet plays in our life, it’s not just where people from distant places can meet up, it’s also a marketplace.
The more people you get to visit your site, the greater your profits will be. So it’s pretty clear that you have to generate some decent traffic in order to have a successful business.
What most people do to get traffic is to put sensible and informative content in their websites. This is generally because internet surfers usually go to websites that allows them to retrieve information about whatever it is they are looking for.
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The non-fiction form has undergone a transformation in the past decade. Many more books today are published that blur the line between fiction and non-fiction. And in other cases, the standards for literary excellence in non-fiction writing have risen; no longer is non-fiction thought primarily as a way to transfer knowledge gleaned from research or insight or interview. Non-fiction today describes a robust category of high quality writing on a diverse set of subjects that is meant to be both informative and entertaining.
The traditional publishing path of the past has been described similarly by many sources. Write a book, send query letter and/or book proposal to agents, get picked up by an agent, get sold by agent to a small-to-medium-size publisher, pray that your book takes off and garners attention from a big publisher who pays you a six-figure advance in return for the rights to your book.
Nathan Bransford, a literary agent with Curtis Brown, discusses going from small presses to big publishers. I agree with many of his points on the difficulties of being recognized by a big publisher. His advice is very similar to my premise, if your book is really good, well edited, designed, printed, distributed, and promoted, it will succeed.
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