“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. That’s it. If this was not the truth, they would screen submissions, they would reject bad manuscripts, and they would teach authors how to market their own books for free (instead of selling them garbage that doesn’t sell books)… So, it’s to that POD publisher’s financial best interest to squeeze the author for even more money than to help them market their books for free.”
Angela Hoy,
of Booklocker.com and Writersweekly, writing this week about POD Best Practices.
There is nothing more you could add or say about the above comment from Angela Hoy that could more eloquently illuminate the points she makes.
The full article is here.
Potential customers of these alleged publishers should keep in mind that they make the vast majority of their money selling services to writers, not books to readers.
If there’s any doubt, look at their websites and compare the minimal space devoted to their “book store” sections to the much bigger effort made to sell services.
Michael N. Marcus
http://BookMakingBlog.blogspot.com
http://www.SilverSandsBooks.com