Why and How I Self-Published a Book
I’m seeing more and more of posts like this lately.
Advances are quickly going to zero. Margins are going to zero for publishers. There’s no financial benefit for going with a publisher if advances are going to zero and royalties are a few percentage points. The publishing industry does minimal editing. The time between book acceptance and release is too long (often a year or more). That’s insane and makes zero sense in a print-on-demand world when kindle versions are outselling print versions.
He makes a lot of good points, but that’s the best one.
E-Book prices fuel outrage
An e-book that costs the same as a printed book doesn’t feel right. No trees died to make it. No heavy machinery ran to print it. No planes flew to ship it. You might need to buy one of those new $139 Barnes & Noble Nooks, announced this week, to be able to read it. So why should you have to spend as much as you would for a heavy hardcover book to own it?
Blame the latest phase of the digital content revolution, now more than ten years strong. As first happened with music, then movies, then print news, the book publishing industry is experiencing a shake-up of rules and roles. In particular, the changing relationship between the book publisher (the company that creates books) and the book retailer (the company that sells books) is causing a chain reaction of confusion, mistrust, and price hikes.The good news is that this phenomenon is inspiring enterprising startups to rethink aging models of book pricing.
The bad news is that it’s pissing people off.
Dale Peck Says Writers and Readers Must Fight Against Publishing Industry
Because the only way we can get on with our business is if we finally bury publishing’s corpse and rechannel the energy we’ve spent propping it to build something new. Something that serves the needs not of editors, or marketers, or publishers, or shareholders, or the culture industry, but of writers and readers, who together are recto and verso of the literary community, which is to say, the only thing that matters.
Hallelujah.
How Viral PDFs Of A Naughty Bedtime Book Exploded The Old Publishing Model
The response from his friends was so fierce that Mansbach decided to make his joke book a real one. Go the Fuck to Sleep, which he bills as a “children’s book for adults,” will hit stores on June 14, published by the Brooklyn press Akashic. If it’s not even due for a month, though, how did a little 32-page book already snag a film option deal with Fox 2000 and, today, reach the pinnacle of online publishing commerce world?
The answer appears to be piracy.
Megan Lisa Jones’s Novel Captive Exceeds 400000 Downloads Through BitTorrent
“Captive’s numbers illustrates a direct for all forms of digitalcalm in a BitTorrent ecosystem. Progressive authors like Ms. Jonesare heading a approach for a new form of reader engagement, and we’re verygratified with her success,” pronounced Shahi Ghanem, arch strategist atBitTorrent.
“BitTorrent was a smashing partner and is really attuned to their
assembly needs; a village truly embraces a record and artists
who use it,” pronounced Jones of a company.
Times, they are a changin.
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The Death of the book
The emphasis shifts with each telling, but every writer, editor, publisher, bookseller, and half-attentive reader knows the fundamental story. After centuries of steady climbing, book sales leveled off towards the end of the 1900s. Basic literacy began to plummet. As if television and Reaganomics were not danger enough, some egghead lunatics went and built a web—a web!—out of nothing but electrons. It proved a sneaky and seductive monster. Straight to our offices and living rooms, the web delivered chicken recipes, weather forecasts, pornography, the cutest kitten videos the world had ever seen. But while we were distracted by these glittering gifts, the internet conspired to snare our friend the book, to smother it.Great article, misleading title.
Penguin Launches Book Country, An Online Community for Genre Fiction
Looking to support and develop writers of genre fiction, Penguin is launching a public beta of Book Country, a free online writing community and publishing services venture. In development for more than a year, Book Country offers writers a place to upload new works and receive feedback and criticism from a community of writers and readers; a place for agents and editors to look for new talent; and eventually the venture will offer a suite of self-publishing services that will offer e-book and print publication for a fee.
Read: We designed a better slush pile.
The 2011 Gredunza Publishing Package
Gredunza Press has offered different publishing packages throughout its existence. Each has been loosely based off the idea of charging for individual publishing services and providing our clients with as much freedom and rights-holding as possible. This year, we’re continuing that philosophy in our 2011 Package, which in our opinion offers independent content creators the best possible choice for publishing services.
Traditionally, Gredunza Press has operated by our clients paying for our services following the completion of a product—the typical invoice freelance style of work. But we’re looking to make the decision to work with us even easier by eliminating that step. Starting today, our combined publishing services will not be charged via invoice, but by book order.
Many small presses utilize this technique. Publish with us, and the only cost to you is that we require you to order a certain number of your books, the profit of which goes to us. After this order, 100% of the profits will fall to the client. That’s something most small presses don’t do.
Though there isn’t an industry standard, most small presses require an order of at least 3-4 hundred books to cover their costs. But most first-print authors and small bookmakers generally sell fewer than that number, making the deal decidedly one-sided. With Gredunza Press, the number will be less. Contact us with your project and we will determine a price that works with your budget.
With Gredunza Press, we offer substantive and copy editing, custom book design (no templates here), ISBN & CIP information (and a book places in the Canadian Library of Congress), and a custom website to promote your work. This sort of publishing deal usually costs upwards of $1500-$3000. With us, you may not even need to spend a penny. On top of that, if you find a publisher that beats our offer, we’ll match it.
