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Transcript:

So when it comes to launching your book, a lot of people have questions around what formats of my book should I launch first, second, third? Should I phase things? Should I launch everything all at once? The reality is, it's really great you have these options between having a hard copy, a print version, uh, the e book, and then audio.

And, you know, big picture, I think it's important to probably have all of those different routes as much as you are able to. However, how you pace those and how you launch those is one of those things that's going to be up to you. Now, some authors hate hearing that. For some people, it gives them a little bit of freedom.

To say, you have the choice to decide what you're going to do. Especially if you're going the self publishing route. Now, if you're working with a publisher, they're probably going to dictate to you what you should do and when. Um, and you're going to be probably locked into certain commitments based on that.

But if you are self publishing, or you have the option to delay making certain versions, Ultimately, that choice is up to you, and you can, you can make that however you want. We'll walk through a few things to think about as you're determining, you know, what you, what order you want to do things in, what you would want to do first.

Does it make sense to launch all at once? Um, when I first launched my book, this was in 2019, it wasn't, I'll just say this, audiobooks were becoming more popular, becoming more of the norm. But they weren't there yet. It also was a lot more cumbersome to publish and produce an audio book version of your book.

Today. It's a lot easier. I've seen in just the four to five years from recording this episode from 2019, I have seen a huge difference in how, how much easier it is to publish and produce an audio book. It felt like a bigger lift four or five years ago. So when I launched my book, I only did ebook and paperback.

And even when I launched, my, uh, advice that I was given was to launch with just my ebook. And I'll be honest, I knew that it was going to be a little bit harder. Because, you know, the platforms see the ebook and your hard copy version as two separate products. So, in terms of wanting to get rankings and moving up in the algorithms for going after different accolades, I knew it was going to be a little bit more of a...