Publisher Reviews

CPI is a UK book manufacturer and provider of self-publishing services, and part of the CPI Europe Group, which has operational bases in the UK, Holland, Czech Republic, Germany and France. As well as Antony Rowe, CPI UK includes five other book manufacturing companies, William Clowes, Mackays, Cox & Wyman, Bookmarque and White Quill Press – all working with some of the UK’s largest and smallest publishing houses and independent small presses. All of the companies in the CPI UK Group have the resources to produce books at print run lengths of one or one million. Antony Rowe is […]

Why did you decide to self publish, and what drew you to Authorhouse?

I decided to self publish because I really wanted to tell a contemporary Nigerian story. I had shopped around for a few months for a traditional publisher in the United States where I live but most replies stated that they would prefer a romance set in this country. There are not many publishers in Nigeria and the few there are a bit resource constrained. So I began to research self-publishing. I read some good testimonies about the process and how it can be successful if one […]

This post about getting delisted on Amazon is getting cluttered with new information, and I want to call attention to Mark Coker’s comment here.  A short recap: my novel was delisted from the Amazon Kindle on Saturday because the price on Kobo (89 cents) is below the price that Amazon allows authors to set – which is 99 cents.  The book is distributed to Kobo via Smashwords premium distribution. Instead of Amazon setting my price at 88 cents, their policy is to remove the buy button entirely.

I want to reiterate: this is not Smashwords fault.  I had set […]

This past Saturday, I was a sponsored book on Kindle Nation – something I wholeheartedly recommend.  It costs $69 for one-day sponsorship, with other options:

Option 2 – Free Kindle Nation Short Excerpt Email Sponsorship – 1 Day:
Free Kindle Nation Shorts excerpt and sponsorship to be emailed to 5,500 opt-in free email subscribers and pushed directly via Whispernet to over 6,000 Kindles owned by paid subscribers. It’s your choice whether to sponsor another author’s Free Kindle Nation Short or your own, but the most powerful option is to sponsor your own.
Option 3 – Free Book Alert Sponsorship –

So I finally gave in and bought an iPad – trying it out 3 times in store before finally laying down the $500.  I was reluctant because of the amount of bad press, wondering if I was giving in to a fad, and if buying a first-generation device is truly short-sighted.  But actually I needed one – my Sony reader recently broke and I need something to read SPR submissions.  So I took the plunge.

It’s the best thing I’ve ever bought.  One of the main things that’s transformed for me that I didn’t foresee that it hasn’t just transformed […]