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From the Editors at Merriam-Webster. Book Anatomy Words: Quire, Colophon, Style: MLA. English Language Learners Definition of publishing. Get Word of the Day daily email! There is not a real rule here as to how to look at all these companies, but I think these 4 cover all the bases well enough. Self-published books Self-published print on demand Vanity publishers Self-publishing no pay upfront.
Keep in mind that self-publishing takes away the gatekeeper. YOU are the one who decides to publish your book. You put up the money, you promote the book, you do everything but print the book. You can print the book yourself now but the production is still very difficult and you have shipping cost and all that.
So other than hand binding or buying your own print on demand machine, these 4 self-publishing categories are all that exists as far as we know. Here is where the bulk of real competition is coming into play with traditional publishing houses. Using services like Kindle Direct and Smashwords, writers are now publishing their books at the click of a button.
The big deal here is outlet. Ebooks are a big deal if you own a kindle or an ipad or some other ebook reading hand-held. Ebook services not only produce your ebook they let you sell that ebook on their gigantic outlets, like Barns and Noble or the Ebook king Amazon. Selling your books on these services lets you compete with even the big six.
They make your book available on their sites and they TAKE a percentage of your sales. Boom, your both making money off that book that only took your blood sweat and tears to write.
We are in fact seeing the golden age of ebooks dawn, as we speak or write. It is usually the easiest form of publishing because there is no hard copy. This makes it easy because it is cheap and the shipping is really easy. Authors have made a lot of money selling ebooks, and there is much more to come. Ok, so if you want your book to be made up of more than electrons and you really want a physical copy you can go with a service like Lulu.
Lulu was going great up until ebooks became a big thing. It was one of the only real competitors to traditional publishing. Although it never reached any kind of tipping point. Lulu uses print on demand technology. This is the cool technology that started to make, for the first time in s of years, self-publishing a real viable option for authors before ebooks came along. Makes me shiver just typing it.
The way this works is that you write a book quick and easy like before right? You put it in the right format first. You pay Lulu a small fee up front to list your book with companies and an ISBN and some other services, and then you wait.
Lulu waits too. Nothing happens then for awhile while you are waiting…. Lulu springs into action, prints the book, ships the book, and keeps a bunch of the money from the book sale. They then send you a percentage. But your book is real, in the world, you can touch it and even sleep with it under your pillow if you have a good chiropractor depending on the size of the book. Vanity publishers have been around for a long time. They have probably been around since Gutenberg upgraded his printing press.
In the s and s vanity publishers came on the scene. They usually have pricing packages. They would give you a discount for the more you bought, and they usually had a minimum. Ouch, right? I always got the feeling that vanity publishers were used mostly by really wealthy guys who wanted to publish their families history and send it to public libraries.
Either way, the way this works is you write a book, quick and easy again, wink wink, and then you contact a vanity publisher. Some of these guys do exist still. Then you would say order copies, pay the money, and book the books would show up at your house for an additional shipping fee.
This process is not very efficient, and many Vanity publishers have recently gone the way of the dinosaurs. The company is a print on demand company.
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