It is the week for launches, and without further ado, hot on the heels of POD TV here yesterday, comes POD Self Publishing & Independent Publishing Forum. While the site here remains a tremendous resource (I hope) of information for authors, the format simply does not allow for the free-flowing debate and comment on the […]
April Hamilton has an excellent article over on Publetariat.com on what commercial publishers need to do to survive as a business. Article Here. The Independent Publishing Magazine | TIPM Media
POD, Self Publishing & Independent Publishing today goes visual with POD TV. We hope to make this a weekly event and I am currently looking into a series of webcasts and podcasts which I hope to launch over the next few months. For now, I am trawling the oceans to get things going. Our first […]
Matthew Moore, writing for today’s Daily Telegraph, was one of the first to test the Espresso Book Machine in Blackwell’s Charing Cross Road shop. It took just eleven minutes to produce a bound edition of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic novel, Crime & Punishment. The book is just one of 400,000 titles available to print at the […]
We have talked much in the past few months about ebooks and ereaders, but not touched upon the potential dowload of electronic product to iphones and mobile touchpads. It seems Amazon has kept its eye focused on this area with the aquisition of Lexcycle, producers of the ebook application, Stanza. The Stanza application gives iPhone […]
The review for this company has been withdrawn as they have merged with a company in the UK which we believe has links with a notorious vanity press. http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80048 The Independent Publishing Magazine | TIPM Media
This weekend the Irish Independent Newspaper launched its Lifetime Reads collection. Every Saturday readers can avail of a quality 5 x 8 hardback of some classic books of literature, post 1950. There are 20 books in the collection, starting this weekend with Ernest Hemmingway’s ‘The Old Man & The Sea’. Each book will be available […]
A vanity publisher is: “any company which charges a client to publish a book; or offers to include short stories, poems or other literary or artistic material in an anthology and then invites those included in it to buy a copy of that anthology.” (British Advertising Standards Authority Advice Note, Vanity Publishing, July 1997) When […]
“The reason so many large POD publishers have bad reputations, and the reason they rarely respond to public criticism, is because they don’t care. They really don’t. Their business model is to cram as many authors through their doors as they can, and to squeeze as much money out of each author as they can. […]
I have noticed a particular rise over the past few months from readers of POD, Self Publishing & Independent Publishing asking me to review specific author service companies which they have not yet seen on the site. The array of author service companies is vast and I am slowly working my way through the ones […]
