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Monday, September 12, 2011
5 Myths About Christian Book Companies
In publishing a book, it is important to be part of a well established and credible Christian publishing company. However, there are some myths that confuse the minds of some Christian writers. These myths also bring some problems and some success stories to these people. It means that before you publish your book you must first consider and clear your thoughts on the myths about Christian publishing companies.Those myths were not yet proven true and some were not really myth for it has an enormous impact on the lives of the Christian authors. It shows that in every arena of life, there are things that you call truth, lies and myths. The first myth about Christian publishing company is that they offer free publishing fees to authors. This thing can be true in one way or another. There are some of them who offer publishing for free and give the books for donations, they operate by receiving donations from Christians or companies who want to help them in distributing and publishing their books.On the other hand, there are publishing companies who ask the author to pay. The payments were used on the processes that were involved in publishing the book. The second myth is that these book companies publish any kind of books without special considerations. This implies that they just publish book without considering the details of and its impact to the readers. All Christian Book companies look at the details of the book because they will be accountable on whatever result it may have in the public.Third, they do not have a copyright protection. All publishing companies, whether Christian or not respect the rights of every writer by giving them protection from people who may use their works for their own selfish desires or to those who claim their writings and fraud their works. Thus, protection is very important to them.Another myth is that they operate only to gain profit. The reason why they operate is because they want to do the mission that they receive from the Lord; it means profit is not their main consideration. They may have profit from the books that they are selling but it will be use for the continuous operation of the company and other part will be use to help churches who need support, to reach the remote places of the world and to help missionaries to continue their missions.Lastly, is the myth that they only use the influence of Church ministers in order to gain profit and use their books for their own benefit. The truth is they co-work with Christian ministers and workers in doing the great commission. Thus, as people of God throwing issues and false information about Christian publishing companies is not the ethical thing to do. It will be better to support them through prayers and patronizing the books that they sell in order to be a part of the great commission.
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