ABC Local TV News carried a piece a couple of days ago on the self-publishing experience of a 92 year old airmen of World War II and his daughter who teamed up with him to help him publish his memoir, ‘Victory: Tales of a Tuskegee Airman‘. The video below does suffer from being presented once…
Amazon Agree Settlement in Booklocker.com Antitrust Lawsuit
Amazon has agreed a settlement in the lawsuit filed against them by Booklocker.com in 2008. The lawsuit was taken against Amazon by Booklocker.com following the giant e-retailer’s strong-armed attempt to force publishers using POD printers for their book lists to switch to paying Amazon’s own POD printer, Booksurge (now subsumed into Amazon’s CreateSpace). Booklocker.com took the lawsuit…
CreateSpace And Booksurge Unite Under One Brand
Self-publishing authors may see CreateSpace and Booksurge as two distinctly different companies, but both brands are run by On-Demand Publishing, who are in turn a subsidiary of Amazon. The announcement of the merging of CreateSpace and Booksurge comes as no great surprise, and if anything, should have happened more than a year ago considering CreateSpace has become the…
Lulu Publishing Partner Program – Marriage of Convenience or Masterstroke?
I try to keep updated with as many newsworthy items and developments in the self-publishing world as much as possible, but occasionally something comes across my desk and either gets pushed to the bottom of the ‘to do’ pile or slips by in the quiet of night. I remember a couple of weeks ago coming…
Amazon.co.uk – A Case of Deja Vu?
“Déjà vu is the experience of feeling sure that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously (an individual feels as though an event has already happened or has happened in the near past), although the exact circumstances of the previous encounter are uncertain. The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a…
Booksurge US – (see CreateSpace)
UPDATE NOVEMBER, 2009. Booksurge has now merged under the CreateSpace brand.Announcement news. Related articles Amazon Japan Launches Print-On-Demand Program for Publishers (mickrooney.blogspot.com) to self-publish or not self-publish (victoryates.wordpress.com) Create Space Helps First Time Authors Like Taren Wilson The Writer of Novel,The Life Of Mouse. – (takingonacause.com) Amazon Announce Breakthrough Novel Award Finalists (mickrooney.blogspot.com) Abbott Press…
Baker & Taylor Set For POD Distribution by September 2009
Baker & Taylor Inc, the US book distributor has joined forces with R.R.Donnelley, a print solutions provider to establish and run a print-on-demand digital book production center at Baker & Taylor’s distribution plant in Illinois. This looks to be the last commercial deal to be put in place before the POD distribution plant opens in…
Oscars At The IPPY Awards
The IPPY Awards are considered by some to be the Oscars of POD, Independent and Self-Publishing books. I’m not entirely sure I agree with this view considering there is a small fee for entry and many of the small presses are often born out of an author’s own self-publishing imprint (not a bad thing mind),…
Amazon As Publisher
Self-publishing through Amazon has just stepped up another notch with news that teenage author,Cayla Kluver, from Wisconsin, USA, has sold the rights of her debut self-published book ‘Legacy’. The book will become the first to fully launch AmazonEncore, a new publishing program set to focus on self published books as well as traditional out of…
Comments on Self Publishing Article – New York Times
“The point may soon come when there are more people who want to write books than there are people who want to read them.” New York Times, January 27th, 2009. This is an opening quote from an article about self publishing in the New York Times this week by Motoko Rich about the rise in…