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Author Alert: Is Your Book Held Hostage by a Subsidy Publisher?

by Judith Briles on October 28, 2015 30 Comments

I’ve worked with several clients who have been lured, hooked and now are sinking. The cause: a publishing predator is in their midst, a subsidy publisher.

Filed Under: Contributing Writers, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Judith Briles, subsidy publishers, vanity presses

SFWC: Roles of Authors and a Sticky Situation

by Joel Friedlander on February 20, 2012 13 Comments

Author, Publisher, or Both? Some thoughts on the shifting roles in publishing after a day at San Francisco Writers Conference

Filed Under: Self-Publishing Tagged With: author services, book publishing, indie author, San Francisco Writers Conference, self publishing, subsidy publishers, writers conference

This Week in the Blogs, November 13 – 19, 2011

by Joel Friedlander on November 20, 2011 1 Comment

Blogs for Self-Publishers for November 13-19, 2011 including Eric Smith, Sylvia Liu, George Angus, Victoria Strauss and Gerard de Marigny

Filed Under: Self-Publishing, Social Media Tagged With: blogging, book marketing, Eric Smith, George Angus, Gerard de Marigny, publishing a book, self publishing, subsidy publishers, Sylvia Liu, Victoria Strauss

The Subsidy Author's Bill of Rights

by Joel Friedlander on July 27, 2011 27 Comments

Okay, I’m going to come right out and say it: We need subsidy publishers. The problem is, we don’t need many of the big subsidy publishers we already have. And I include all those subsidy presses that have sprung up in the last year like the spawn in Alien taking root inside the body of […]

Filed Under: Legal Issues, Self-Publishing Tagged With: bill of rights, e-book, pay to publish, publish a book, self publishing, subsidy publishers, vanity press

Saturday Q & A With the Book Designer 05: Book Files

by Joel Friedlander on June 18, 2011 9 Comments

Saturday Q & A With the Book Designer 05: Book Files. Do you own your book files, or can you get them from your subsidy publisher?

Filed Under: Book Production, Self-Publishing, Video Tagged With: book files, book production, publish your book, self publish book, self publishing, subsidy publishers, video, video blog

6 Things I Love—and Hate—About Self-Publishing

by Joel Friedlander on January 17, 2011 37 Comments

6 Things I Love—and Hate—About Self-Publishing. From complete creative control to complete lack of control, self-publishing has it all

Filed Under: Self-Publishing, Social Media Tagged With: author branding, author platform, blogging, book marketing, print on demand, publish a book, self published author, self publishing, subsidy publishers

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