What’s New at Lulu.com? Video Interview with Sarah Gilbert introduces the Manager of Sales and Account Management at the big self-publishing print on demand vendor
What Does Self-Publishing Cost: DIY
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 book, nor do people publish for all the […]
Book Publishing Numbers That Tell A Story
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 and micro-niche publishers, according to statistics released this morning by R.R. Bowker. The number […]
7 Reasons Not to Self-Publish—Is This You?
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 new VIP program. Wideman has been published for years by Houghton Mifflin, according to the […]