The process of publishing a book

The process of publishing a book is the history of every ordinary person and a mirror of the times. As their material life needs are met, more and more elderly people are picking up pens or keyboards to cultivate their spiritual pastoral.

No, before the holiday, an 85-year-old Uncle Liu, who lives in Harmony Century Community in Kunming's North District, called the hotline for help and asked what he should do if he wanted to publish a memoir that he had spent three years writing. Today, we specially invited Teacher Zhao Hongmei, director of the Public Affairs Department of Yunnan University Press, to answer the question.

The content of cooperatively published books meets publishing requirements, but the market demand is not large. This type of books generally adopts cooperative publishing methods, and the author needs to provide a certain amount of publishing fees.

The publishing house independently publishes and the author provides the manuscript, or the publishing house organizes the author to write relevant content according to the needs of the book market. There is a certain market demand for this type of book, and the publishing house is responsible for selling it.

This type of book publisher pays authors royalties or royalties based on the number of words or number of copies published. Authors can negotiate specifically with the publisher based on their own needs.

When the Chinese character is used as a verb, it means writing and recording. "Shuowen": "Book, chopsticks." It also refers to paintings; when used as a noun, it means books, letters, etc. The meaning of font, calligraphy and words also refers to the "Six Books", the emperor's edict, and a kind of folk art called "storytelling".