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…
London Book Fair 2012 – Reviewed
It’s been pretty busy at The London Book Fair 2012. Some wifi and battery gremlins haven’t helped the case and I have concentrated on meeting clients and taking in what it here. What has struck me is the increased digital presence with so many companies and developers here with new apps and ebook solutions. I’ll…
TIPM Interview | Bubok Publishing: Head of Internationalisation – Justine Petrenko
Bubok offer self-publishing services to authors and just launched their UK operation in February this year. Bubok is entering a competitive UK DIY self-publishing arena, already populated by companies like Lulu, Blurb, CreateSpace and Amazon Kindle. Authors have the choice to upload book files in PDF, Word document or PPT, publish their books without a…
Bubok UK – Overview
Bubok is an online self-publishing service and bookstore founded in 2007 and has just launched a dedicated UK service this week. Bubok is marketing to the DIY self-publishing area and files uploaded must be in a PDF or doc format. Yet, the online download advice conflicts with what is stated in the press release (PDF,…
Guest Post | Self-Publishing in the Internet Age – Ella Davidson
In the age of blogs, Facebook profiles and pages, everyone is beginning to develop an opinion to share. The benefit of this technological age is that now all of those wishes, opinions and great ideas found on the Internet can be turned into polished novels. Before the Internet and self-publishing existed, traditionally you had to…
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…
Book Country – For or Against Self-Publishing?
There is an interesting article on paidcontent.org about Penguin’s entry into self-publishing services with Book Country, launched fully last week. Many popular self-published authors are coming down hard on the self-publishing services that Penguin added to community writing site Book Country earlier this week, calling the initiative overpriced, royalty-grabbing and “truly awful.” The primary criticisms…
PUBLISHING SERVICE INDEX – October 2011
The PUBLISHING SERVICE INDEX for author solutions services launched in June 2010. Here is the latest index for October 2011. (Click image to enlarge) (KEY) DIY – Do-it-yourself bespoke sevices ASS – Author Solutions Services (Packages) PUB – Also offers Mainstream Contracts PRT – Printer FULL – Fulfillment Services provided The most asked question we get at The…
SelfPublishBooks (Lettertec) – Reviewed
SelfPublishBooks.ie is a print solutions service owned by Lettertec Ireland, an independent Irish company with a design, print and book binding facility in Carrigtohill, Co. Cork. The company was founded in 1983 and has over 20 employees as well as a sales office in Dublin. Initially, Lettertec was a supplier of desktop document binding solutions,…