by Joel Friedlander | Jul 9, 2012 | Interviews, Self-Publishing
The first major player in print on demand for self-publishers—and still one of the largest of all—is Lulu.com. Since their founding in 2002 by Bob Young, Lulu has published over 1.1 million titles by creators in over 200 countries and territories and adds...
by Joel Friedlander | Apr 19, 2010 | Book Production, Self-Publishing
In my earlier article I looked at a framework to determine what it costs to self-publish. I described 9 cost categories and three paths to publication as a way to organize the costs for different kinds of self-publishers. After all, not everyone wants the same kind of...
by Joel Friedlander | Apr 16, 2010 | Self-Publishing
This was the headline in a news report by Jim Milliot in Publishers Weekly yesterday: Self-Published Titles Topped 764,000 in 2009 as Traditional Output Dipped Here’s the intro to the story: A staggering 764,448 titles were produced in 2009 by self-publishers...
by Joel Friedlander | Mar 12, 2010 | Self-Publishing, Writing
Yesterday the publisher services company Lulu.com announced that John Edgar Wideman, two-time winner of the Faulkner Award for fiction, would be publishing his new collection of short stories, Briefs, Stories for the Palm of the Mind, in conjunction with Lulu’s...