[header] How to know if your book is worth publishing [title] Identify your target audience. [step] One way to determine if your book is worth publishing is to consider who the book is for. Ask yourself, who is my reader? Who will be interested in reading this book? These questions will help you identify the target audience for your book. 
Publishers often focus on a book's target audience to help market it and sell it to readers. [substeps] For example, perhaps you have a book that is about a love story during the american civil war.