If you’ve written great material and you want to take it to the next level, you’ll have to find a few people to help you reach success. One of the groups of people you’ll need help from are publishers. Aside from taking care of the printing, a publisher has many other duties and responsibilities.

They have to take care of acquisition first and foremost. This basically means that they need to evaluate and read thousands of manuscripts to see which one would be the right one to publish. With that in mind, you have to make sure that what you write has a special quality in it- the quality of being publishable. Publishers then need to work on planning, editing, designing and art directing. Here, everything about taking a manuscript to draft form to a finished book is taken care of.

After this long process, your publisher will also be handling management of the production. Questions like how to settle on a printer, who would do the best job under a budget and so on will be answered. Let’s take things in stride that if you spend too much on the printing, your book might not be affordable and might not sell at all. Once the printing is done, your publisher will also work on the distribution and sales of your book. Again, taking your book from one stage to another is a lot of work and you need someone with skills and knowhow.

Even as your book is already published and it’s sitting on the shelves of the most popular bookstores, marketing and promotion for your book still has to be done. The public might want and need a book like yours but will anyone buy it if they don’t know it exists? Here, your publisher will be working with the media, getting ads out, creating promotional items, scheduling you for book tours and so on. From this quick list of a publisher’s duties and responsibilities, you can gather that getting published takes a lot of work. In the hands of the best publishers, you’ll surely attain success.