Bowker in the USA has just released a report on allocated ISBNs between 2008 and 2013 which includes e and print books. In the coming days TIPM will be crunching that data and presenting a post about the data.
TIPM continues to receive regular feedback on services through comments under our reviews, via our TIPM Facebook page, and directly to us. Your comments are always welcome and every comment and experience of a publishing service—positive or negative—is always reflected in every new index published through TIPM.
OCT POS | SEP POS | COMPANY/SERVICE PROVIDER | PRIMARY COMPANY BASEMARKET | SERVICE CLASS | OCT INDEX VALUE | INDEX POS MOVE |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) | GLOBAL | DIY | 602.74 | UP |
2 | 1 | CreateSpace | USA | DIY/ASP | 587.63 | DOWN |
3 | 3 | IngramSpark | GLOBAL | PRT/FUL | 574.2 | SAME |
4 | 4 | Lightning Source (Direct) | GLOBAL | PRT/FUL | 518.44 | SAME |
5 | 5 | Smashwords | USA | DIY | 502.9 | SAME |
6 | 6 | Matador | UK | ASP | 452.51 | SAME |
7 | 7 | Mill City Press | USA | PUB/ASP | 433.02 | SAME |
8 | 10 | Lulu | GLOBAL | DIY/ASP | 395.05 | UP |
9 | 8 | SilverWood Books | USA | ASP | 391.86 | DOWN |
10 | 9 | Blurb | GLOBAL | DIY | 384.79 | DOWN |
11 | 11 | BookLocker | USA | ASP | 367.27 | SAME |
12 | 13 | Authors On Line | UK | ASP | 354.76 | UP |
13 | 14 | Bookbaby | USA | DIY/ASP | 341.2 | UP |
14 | 12 | Selfpublishing.com | USA | PRT/FUL | 334.04 | DOWN |
15 | 16 | Kobo Writing Life | GLOBAL | DIY | 331.3 | UP |
16 | 15 | Publish Green | GLOBAL | ASP | 327.35 | DOWN |
17 | 17 | Dog Ear Publishing | USA | ASP | 325.39 | SAME |
18 | 18 | York Publishing Services | UK | PRT/FULL | 320.05 | SAME |
19 | 19 | John Hunt Publishing | GLOBAL | PUB/ASP | 320.05 | SAME |
20 | 20 | Wingspan | USA | ASP | 302 | SAME |
21 | 23 | CPI UK Antony Rowe | EUROPE | PRT | 299.68 | UP |
22 | 21 | Aventine | USA | ASP | 297.87 | DOWN |
23 | 22 | Thomson-Shore | USA | PRT/ASP | 296.04 | DOWN |
24 | 25 | Mijn Bestseller | EUROPE | DIY | 293.45 | UP |
25 | 24 | Checkpoint Press | IRELAND | PUB/ASP | 291.34 | DOWN |
26 | 26 | Book Country | GLOBAL | ASP | 290.92 | SAME |
27 | 27 | VirtualBookVorm | USA | ASP | 290.88 | SAME |
28 | 29 | SelfPublishBooks/Lettertec | IRELAND | ASP | 287.42 | UP |
29 | 28 | Acorn Independent Press | UK | ASP | 285.72 | DOWN |
30 | 30 | Grosvenor House Publishing | UK | ASP | 285.19 | SAME |
31 | 34 | Infinity Publishing | USA | ASP | 285.01 | UP |
32 | 31 | Apex Publishing | UK | PUB/ASP | 284.38 | DOWN |
33 | 32 | iUniverse | USA | ASP | 284.25 | DOWN |
34 | 33 | Wasteland Press | USA | ASP | 283.22 | DOWN |
35 | 36 | Outskirts Press | USA | ASP | 282.06 | UP |
36 | 35 | Cold River Studio | USA | ASP | 280.63 | DOWN |
37 | 37 | The Choir Press | UK/USA | ASP | 279.23 | SAME |
38 | 39 | Xulon Press | USA | ASP | 277.89 | UP |
39 | 38 | FastPencil | USA | DIY | 277.24 | DOWN |
40 | 40 | Tate Publishing | USA | PUB/ASP | 276.47 | SAME |
41 | 41 | Americas Press | USA | PRT | 276.01 | SAME |
42 | 42 | Pumbo | EUROPE | DIY | 274.66 | SAME |
43 | 44 | PubliBook | EUROPE | DIY | 271.12 | UP |
44 | 43 | AuthorHouse | GLOBAL | ASS | 271.04 | DOWN |
45 | 45 | Janus Publishing | UK | ASP | 269.32 | SAME |
46 | 47 | Diadem Books | UK/USA | ASP | 267.94 | UP |
47 | 46 | Abbott Press | USA | PUB/ASP | 267.49 | DOWN |
48 | 51 | Llumina Press | USA | PUB/ASP | 266.64 | UP |
49 | 48 | Open Book Editions | USA | ASP | 265.98 | DOWN |
50 | 49 | Direct POD | UK | PRT | 265.42 | DOWN |
51 | 50 | Book Guild Publishing | UK | ASP | 264.99 | DOWN |
52 | 52 | A.H. Stockwell | UK | ASP | 264.02 | SAME |
53 | 53 | Original Writing | IRELAND | ASP | 263.59 | SAME |
54 | 54 | Eprint Ireland | IRELAND | PRT | 263.22 | SAME |
55 | 55 | Austin MacAuley | UK | ASP | 263.1 | SAME |
56 | 56 | True Directions | USA | PUB/ASP | 261.25 | SAME |
57 | 58 | The Book Producers | IRELAND | ASP | 260.45 | UP |
58 | 59 | Pomegranate Press | UK/USA | ASP | 260.24 | UP |
59 | 60 | Xlibris | GLOBAL | ASP | 259.15 | UP |
60 | 57 | UKUnpublished | UK | ASP | 258.6 | DOWN |
61 | 61 | Better Book Company | UK | ASP | 256.15 | SAME |
62 | 62 | Turning Stone Press | USA | ASP | 253.73 | SAME |
63 | 63 | Archway Publishing | GLOBAL | PUB/ASP | 253.42 | SAME |
64 | 64 | Balboa Press | GLOBAL | PUB/ASP | 251.74 | SAME |
65 | 68 | WestBow Press | USA | PUB/ASP | 249.03 | UP |
66 | 65 | Arima | UK | ASP | 248.41 | DOWN |
67 | 67 | Trafford Publishing | USA | ASP | 247.79 | SAME |
68 | 66 | Gemini International | IRELAND | PRT | 246.22 | DOWN |
69 | 69 | Epic Press | UK | ASP | 242.2 | SAME |
70 | 70 | Chandler Book Design | UK | PRT | 241.92 | SAME |
71 | 71 | Choice Publishing | IRELAND | ASP | 240.75 | SAME |
72 | 72 | Dolman Scott/Oak Press | UK | ASP | 238.66 | SAME |
73 | 73 | DellArte Press | USA | PUB/ASP | 238.52 | SAME |
74 | 74 | ShopMyBook (Unibook) | GLOBAL | PRT | 228.22 | SAME |
75 | 75 | Spiderwize | UK | ASP | 221.42 | SAME |
76 | 76 | Olympia Publishers | UK | PUB/ASP | 210.97 | SAME |
77 | 77 | Pegasus Elliot MacKenzie | UK | PUB/ASP | 210 | SAME |
78 | 79 | PublishAmerica/America Star Books | USA | ASP | 208.05 | UP |
79 | 78 | Melrose Books | UK | ASP | 206.68 | DOWN |
80 | 80 | Dom Tom Publishing | UK/USA | ASP | 204.02 | SAME |
81 | 81 | Raider International Pub./Green Shore | GLOBAL | ASP | 111.7 | SAME |
The most asked question we get at The Independent Publishing Magazine is often along the lines of; ‘What self-publishing service should I go with?‘; ‘Is so and so a good service to go with?‘; or ‘Is so and so a scam?‘
Mick Rooney – Publishing Consultant
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Hi Mick—Always so informative. I love your website.
I use VOOK https://vook.com to distribute my eBooks and am very pleased with their services. They are fairly new to the industry. Do you or any of your followers have any information on them? Thank you for keeping us abreast of all the happenings in the world of self-publishing.
Hi Clara, it’s on the list of companies to fully review in the coming months.
Thank you, Mick. I will look forward to the review. You do an amazing and professional job with your website. You are a true asset to the writing community. Thanks, again.
Thanks, Clara. Much appreciated.
I’ve watched some of BookLogix’s webinars and found them excellent. Have actually talked to one of the staff and found it refreshing to be able to have an actual conversation with a publisher. I will need to do a reprint soon of a book and wondered if you are familiar with them. I have not seen them on your list.
I am not familiar with them, Roda. Maybe worth checking out. Thanks for bringing them to my attention.
Useful information on the website Mick. Was wondering if you had any info on a company called Authorright in the UK? I don’t see them on your list, is this good or bad?? Also, had rotten experience with author house a personal thing with the person I spoke with. Surprised but not surprised. Surprised because it is part of Penguin and not for the same reason.
Good site BTW
Thanks for the support and comment, Dianne.
I haven’t reviewed Authoright yet but one is due early in 2015. So it would be unfair to comment on the value of its publicity and marketing services. Authoright has played a big role in hosting the author hub at the London Book Fair over the past couple of years and it operates offices in the UK and USA.
I think you have hit on the biggest concern about Penguin’s use of Author Solutions (the company which owns AuthorHouse and many other paid-service imprints) since it was bought and integrated into the Penguin Book Group. While authors new to publishing might immediately associate Author Solutions’ imprints with the Penguin brand, the reality is that the nuts and bolts process of publishing has nothing to do with Penguin staff.
If you do a search on the TIPM for Author Solutions, you will find many more articles where I discuss this in great detail.