The breaking news this afternoon – and probably this year on the self-publishing landscape – is the announced acquisition of the largest global self-publishing provider, Author Solutions Inc, by Pearson, who own the Penguin Publishing Group. This could well represent the sea-change in the publishing world we have been expecting for quite a while. I…
12 Points To Consider When Looking For A Good Author Solutions Provider
A few years ago I put together a guide for authors looking to find a good service provider to self-publish their books. A lot has changed since I first put that guide together. So here we go for 2012… 1. Non exclusive contract with clear terminology Never sign a contract with an author solutions…
Booktango Increase Royalty Program For New and Existing Authors
Author Solutions today announced an extended royalty offer for existing and new authors to its DIY e-book publishing platform, Booktango. The offer will continue for new authors signing up with Booktango until July 4th. From the press release: Authors Earn Maximum E-Book Royalties With Booktango Authors Who Publish by July 4, 2012 Using Booktango’s DIY…
Bertram Capital Look For Author Solutions Buyer
Publishing services giant Author Solutions is reported this morning in PW to be looking for a new buyer. Currently Bertram Capital have a majority share in the company that owns iUniverse, Xlibris, Wordclay, AuthorHouse and Trafford, as well as operating a number of self-publishing imprints for traditional publishers. Writing in today’s PW, Jim Milliot suggests ASI…
You’ve Been Tangoed! ASI Launch DIY Self-Publishing Platform
Author Solutions (ASI) is the collossus of the self-publishing industry, owning AuthorHouse, iUniverse, Xlibris and Trafford, as well as operating partnership self-publishing engines for publishers like Thomas Nelson and Harlequin. Today ASI launched Booktango, an online DIY ebook publishing platform. The application on the platform is free to authors and payment to authors is royalty-based. eBooks will be…
Home or Bust: Shrink or Swim?
About a year and a half ago Author Solutions (ASI), the largest global company offering self-publishing services to authors, decided to pull the plug on their AuthorHouse operation in the UK. It still surprises many authors I speak to when I tell them that AuthorHouse has no staff presence in the UK and all operational…
Book Country – Old Country For New Authors?
Later this year something is going to happen in the publishing industry that many analysts and experts told us would never happen. As far back as 2009, when Thomas Nelson and Harlequin launched their self-publishing service imprints, the naysayers maintained the ‘big six’ publishers would hold firm and the self-publishing service bug would never reach…
Abbott Press – Reviewed
Abbott Press is an imprint owned and run by Author Solutions Incorporated. Abbott Press was originally launched in January 2011 in a partnership between Writers’ Digest and Author Solutions. I made a brief mention of the newly formed partnership and press release here. Back then, the launch was greeted with a mixed reception much in the way WestBow…
Subsidy Publishing: Proceed With Caution | The Book Designer
Subsidy Publishing: Proceed With Caution Cautionary tales from The Book Designer on using some subsidy publishing services… “It happened again today. In fact—and I know you’ll doubt me but it’s absolutely true—it happened twice in one day. Two different stories with the same sad end. In the first one, the author had gone to Outskirts…
Berrett-Koehler Launch Self-Publishing Division with ASI
Berrett-Koehler Publishers – an independent US non-fiction publisher – has become the latest mainstream publisher to launch a self-publishing division powered by Author Solutions Inc. The new venture, Open Book Editions, is the latest in a growing list of self-publishing divisions run by Author Solutions on behalf of independent publishing houses. Publishing packages available from Open Book…