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The Hidden Global Publishing System
What Most Authors Never Learn About Distribution, Metadata, Libraries, and Global Book Platforms
Drawing on years of real-world publishing experience across Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, Lightning Source, Kobo, Apple Books, Google Play Books, Tolino, Bookmundo, StreetLib, Leanpub, BookVault, and numerous international distribution channels, Dr. Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman provides a practical guide to understanding the invisible mechanisms that move books around the world.
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Most publishing guides teach authors how to publish.
Very few explain how the publishing industry actually works.
Behind every book lies a hidden infrastructure of distributors, wholesalers, metadata networks, libraries, retailers, payment systems, and international publishing platforms that most authors never see.
This book reveals that system.
Drawing on years of real-world publishing experience across Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, Lightning Source, Kobo, Apple Books, Google Play Books, Tolino, Bookmundo, StreetLib, Leanpub, BookVault, and numerous international distribution channels, Dr. Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman provides a practical guide to understanding the invisible mechanisms that move books around the world.
Inside this book, you will discover:
✓ How global book distribution actually works
✓ The difference between retailers, distributors, wholesalers, and aggregators
✓ Why Amazon is only one part of a much larger publishing ecosystem
✓ The hidden role of metadata in discoverability and distribution
✓ How European publishing networks differ from American publishing networks
✓ An inside look at libraries, OverDrive, Gardners, Libri, CB, IS, LS, and other infrastructure providers
✓ Direct publishing versus aggregator strategies
✓ ISBN ownership and metadata control
✓ Audiobook distribution systems
✓ Payment infrastructure for international publishers
✓ How professional publishers build resilient multi-platform publishing systems
Whether you publish one book or one hundred, understanding the infrastructure behind modern publishing can fundamentally change the way you make publishing decisions.
Most authors see the storefront.
This book shows you the system behind it.
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Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman
Internationally Recognized Lean Expert Dr. MHA Soliman is a Lecturer in Industrial Engineering and Management Systems at the American University in Cairo, an Executive Advisor and a member of the Advisory Committee of the IEOM International Society. He brings decades of academic and consulting experience and is recognized as a leading expert in organizational performance, institutional transformation for total quality systems, and the quality of public services.
He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications and works as an executive consultant, author, and researcher specializing in management, continuous improvement, and service development.
Founder of Personal Lean Publications (personal-lean.org) and author of multiple engineering and operations management books published since 2013.
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