26 November 2006
CUT A BETTER DEAL THAN PRINT ON DEMAND BOOKS
WRITERS POETS CUT A BETTER DEAL THAN PRINT ON DEMAND BOOKS
Recently I have been offering a deal where I have been soliciting finished manuscripts from authors so I could publish them.
As a result of this project so far I have come up against a couple of different issues the NUMBER ONE ISSUES are those modeled along the Amazon.com model. Amazon.com a publicly traded corporation has entered the books on demand market and offers to print authors under what I would call highly questionable circumstances for the serious author.
Typically Amazon requires specific standards, conditions and terms to be met which I have had to study in order to make a presentation in the issues. I focused my sights on writing this based on Amazon.com because of their central positioning in books. PRINT ON DEMAND (POD) publishing.
Since Amazon doesn't acquire the rights to the works they publish that has become one of the main issues regarding regular publication of works as authors have asked to retain their rights (first issue is that they do no register nor administer copyrights)Secondly by regular publication a publisher obtains, and retains rights to publish books. If their don't obtain and retain rights to publish those works under contract, why should they bother to do so, after all it is a business, not a social affair so ask "What are their motivations for publishing".
Generally because of the low Print On Demand books production runs are at higher fixed pricing they CAN NOT compete on the regular book market while Publishers ON DEMAND make money on every book you sell friends and family at inflated prices All these wonderful gimmicks of manufacturing limited runs items cups, books, woven carry bags, rugs etc can not compete in the marketplace by selling e.g. coffee mugs with baby's photo on it as they look sweet but commercially is unpractical at $10-20 per cup when at discount stores cups are sold new at 59 cents, and often there is a glut of cups in thrift stores.So there is required a give and take in publishing generally governed by contractual terms and conditions.
Also there are standards requiring costs involved with publishing Amazon Books on Demand regarding layout, and graphics that run from $500 and up to $2400 regarding poetry styles of layouts which you have to pay out of your own pockets while receiving NOTHING FREE from Amazon.
Formatting your manuscript • ISBN barcode Online listings $499, Basic Copy Editing $1,500 Unique Cover Selection (NOT DESIGN)
$499, Advanced Marketing Copy your back cover text • Short paragraph describing your book • Condensed sentence description • Author biography $199 Comprehensive Copy Editing $3,000, Cover Design photography and graphic images $999, layout and book publishing service for black and white interior book manuscript submissions $499 Advanced Marketing Copy • Short paragraph describing your book • Condensed sentence description • Author biography $199 Author Domain Service bookselling page $189 Publicity Kit $499 Promotional Copy $399
499+ 1500+ 499+ 199+ 3000+ 999+ 189+ 499+ 399 = $7384 in give or take that is an expensive process YOU PAY FOR which "privilege you receive 25% of the wholesale of an overpriced book. Without getting really neither published, nor getting copies of your book for all that money you spent.
GOOD LUCK MATE! WHAT THE HECK DO I FRIGGING WANT? GREAT FRIGGING MANUSCRIPTS FROM AUTHORS WHO APPRECIATE A GOOD DEAL THAT I MAKE IN OFFERING TO PUBLISH THEM IF THEY ARE ACCEPTED AM I SLIGHTLY INSANE YES I WORK HARD AT IT BUT PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE, AND PRUDENCE GUARANTEES SUCCESS.
NEXT ARTICLES VANITY AND SELF-PUBLISHING.
Please refer to my MYSPACE BLOG FOR MY MENTION OF THESE TOPICS http://blog.myspace.com/andrewstergiou
http://www.myspace.com/andrewstergiou
Email me at universallivingarts@yahoo.ca
Recently I have been offering a deal where I have been soliciting finished manuscripts from authors so I could publish them.
As a result of this project so far I have come up against a couple of different issues the NUMBER ONE ISSUES are those modeled along the Amazon.com model. Amazon.com a publicly traded corporation has entered the books on demand market and offers to print authors under what I would call highly questionable circumstances for the serious author.
Typically Amazon requires specific standards, conditions and terms to be met which I have had to study in order to make a presentation in the issues. I focused my sights on writing this based on Amazon.com because of their central positioning in books. PRINT ON DEMAND (POD) publishing.
Since Amazon doesn't acquire the rights to the works they publish that has become one of the main issues regarding regular publication of works as authors have asked to retain their rights (first issue is that they do no register nor administer copyrights)Secondly by regular publication a publisher obtains, and retains rights to publish books. If their don't obtain and retain rights to publish those works under contract, why should they bother to do so, after all it is a business, not a social affair so ask "What are their motivations for publishing".
Generally because of the low Print On Demand books production runs are at higher fixed pricing they CAN NOT compete on the regular book market while Publishers ON DEMAND make money on every book you sell friends and family at inflated prices All these wonderful gimmicks of manufacturing limited runs items cups, books, woven carry bags, rugs etc can not compete in the marketplace by selling e.g. coffee mugs with baby's photo on it as they look sweet but commercially is unpractical at $10-20 per cup when at discount stores cups are sold new at 59 cents, and often there is a glut of cups in thrift stores.So there is required a give and take in publishing generally governed by contractual terms and conditions.
Also there are standards requiring costs involved with publishing Amazon Books on Demand regarding layout, and graphics that run from $500 and up to $2400 regarding poetry styles of layouts which you have to pay out of your own pockets while receiving NOTHING FREE from Amazon.
Formatting your manuscript • ISBN barcode Online listings $499, Basic Copy Editing $1,500 Unique Cover Selection (NOT DESIGN)
$499, Advanced Marketing Copy your back cover text • Short paragraph describing your book • Condensed sentence description • Author biography $199 Comprehensive Copy Editing $3,000, Cover Design photography and graphic images $999, layout and book publishing service for black and white interior book manuscript submissions $499 Advanced Marketing Copy • Short paragraph describing your book • Condensed sentence description • Author biography $199 Author Domain Service bookselling page $189 Publicity Kit $499 Promotional Copy $399
499+ 1500+ 499+ 199+ 3000+ 999+ 189+ 499+ 399 = $7384 in give or take that is an expensive process YOU PAY FOR which "privilege you receive 25% of the wholesale of an overpriced book. Without getting really neither published, nor getting copies of your book for all that money you spent.
GOOD LUCK MATE! WHAT THE HECK DO I FRIGGING WANT? GREAT FRIGGING MANUSCRIPTS FROM AUTHORS WHO APPRECIATE A GOOD DEAL THAT I MAKE IN OFFERING TO PUBLISH THEM IF THEY ARE ACCEPTED AM I SLIGHTLY INSANE YES I WORK HARD AT IT BUT PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE, AND PRUDENCE GUARANTEES SUCCESS.
NEXT ARTICLES VANITY AND SELF-PUBLISHING.
Please refer to my MYSPACE BLOG FOR MY MENTION OF THESE TOPICS http://blog.myspace.com/andrewstergiou
http://www.myspace.com/andrewstergiou
Email me at universallivingarts@yahoo.ca
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