Publisher Reviews

This was a comment on the Get it Together, Lulu post.  Warrants its own post:

I don’t work for Lulu, but I do work for one of their competitors. And while I find it amusing to see them get bashed by bloggers on a regular basis, there are a few points that I think you should consider when you create your posts.

1. Self-publishing companies have to make money in order to exist. If they can’t make money, then they can’t help people publish their books. So, complaining that they have a profit component to their business model isn’t […]

From BookstoMarketNow.com:

Calling All Self-Published Authors!

Do you yearn to see your book in book chains, your local independent book store, catalogs and on all of the major book-selling websites beside Amazon.com?

Would you like to be doing 30 or more broadcast and internet radio shows that showcase and promote personal development authors — and then see your sales leap as a result?

Are you too overwhelmed with work, promotion and coaching to launch a social marketing campaign for your book?

Do you have $7500 and want to give up 30% of sales? So it goes. Nobody ever […]

I can’t say that definitively, as there are possibly success stories in the past, but the likelihood that you’ll sell any books at a showcase – or even that someone will remember your book after seeing it – is small.  This past weekend I went to the LA Times Book Festival, an enjoyable madhouse of booth after booth of publishers/writers, etc. selling their wares.  There were booths for Authorhouse, Xlibris, iUniverse, and Author Solutions.

Fairly daunting, but fascinating.  You can read about 300,000 books being self-published a year, but until you’re in a booth like this one it really […]

The growth in self-publishing has led to many book printers presenting themselves as bona-fide publishers or full-on author solutions services when nothing could be further from the case.

America’s Press are a family-owned print business based in League City, Texas run by Joel Turner. They have been book printers since 1963 and now specialize in digital print on demand short print runs for small to medium sized publishers as well as authors looking to self-publish their book in paperback.

America’s Press has been producing commercial printing and specifically book printing since 1963. Digital printing came of age in 1992 and

I recently came across Manfred Macx, which has a very interesting intro:

This site started with two ideas.  1)  Ebooks should always be free, and 2)  Authors need to eat.

What would the publishing industry be like without pulping hundreds of thousands of books a year?  What if authors could control more than 15 or 25% of the net from their books?  Publishers provide many valuable services to authors, but it’s time authors could take advantage of new methods of distribution, of marketing, of getting books in the hands of readers.

That’s where Manfred Macx comes in.