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The choice of publication date is arbitrary. There are a number of reasons for not publishing
as soon as your book is printed include:
 | Allowing time for reviewers to incorporate your book into their schedule -
many magazines go to print months before their cover date. Even papers will
need several weeks |
| It gives time for orders to be placed so the books are in the bookshops
when publication date arrives. |
| You might want to time the publication date to tie in with some relevant
date. |
| It takes time for the data about your book to filter through to the
bookstores through the 'bookdata' system. |
But:
| Pre-publication reviews are much-cherished, but hard to obtain for small
publishers except in specialist journals. |
| To achieve impact you could send the book in a pre-publication cover,
effectively as an advance proof, and
change it to the proper cover prior to publication. (There is a charge for
changing the cover.) |
| If you send a finished book for a prepublication review it might not be
recognised as a special pre-publication edition, unless it has a simple cover
or wording to the effect that it is an advance proof. |
| Large publishers will have proofs (and sometimes for major books, special pre-publication
promotional proofs) ready 4 or more months before the book
arrives in their warehouse. They distribute these in the hope of
pre-publication reviews and to encourage the bookshops to stock the book. |
However, as a self-publisher you need to be realistic about what early proofs
might achieve.
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