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“Self-publishing is the preferred route where the audience for a particular work is small, too small to be of interest to traditional publishers or printers. It may be an expert work in a specialised technology, a historical work of local or family interest, or it may be the work of an unpublished poet or novelist testing the market.

Self-publishing authors take responsibility for all aspects of getting their own book to market.

The resultant control and financial benefits more than compensate for having to do the work oneself. Control begins with the assurance that the book will be published, and within weeks instead of months, or possibly years. There will be no rejection because of market size. Authors will not be asked to make changes to suit the publisher and, most importantly, they retain all legal rights to their work.

Financial benefits begin by not having to find and pay a literary agent. Authors get 100% of sales revenue instead of a small royalty, and because of digital print technology at our Dublin facility, they can publish small book quantities initially and reprint any quantity ‘on-demand.

In a document management Company such as Gemini International Limited, the application of information technology, desktop publishing, pre-press software, together with high-speed black and colour digital printing, enable us to take the author’s content, convert it into a structured electronic document, then digitally print and bind producing any quantity, even as low as fifty or a hundred copies, very economically.

With over thirty years printing experience, Gemini can also provide authors with any of the ancillary services – design, layout, proofreading, etc, at competitive rates. We do not, however, promote or market authors’ works as offered by the somewhat suspect ‘Vanity Publishers’.”