Mijnbestseller (My Bestseller) could be called the Dutch Lulu, with no upfront costs and 50% profits, and with a Lulu-like user dashboard, community and book reviews are at the forefront of Mijnbestseller’s program. What is striking on their main webpage is the request for book reviewers as much as authors looking to circumvent the traditional channels…
CreateMyBook (ShopMyBook) – Reviewed (Updated, April 2018)
We previously reviewed Unibook here on TIPM. This publishing service has since changed its trading name to ShopMyBook, which has become its online bookstore. CreateMyBook is now its self-publishing platform. The company is owned by Peleman Industries, a manufacturer of binding, laminating and presentation products for nearly seventy years. Unibook, formerly known as WWAOW, had…
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,…
RTE Liveline Self-Publishing in Ireland | Analysis and Review
Image via Wikipedia It’s always a very heartening experience for me to hear or meet self-published authors gathered in one place at a particular time, whether that space is face to face, or listening to the experiences of so many Irish self-published authors on Tuesday afternoon on Joe Duffy’s national Livelineprogramme on RTE. You can…
Amazon Takes “Self” Out Of Self Publishing | Self Publishing 2.0
Amazon Takes “Self” Out Of Self Publishing | Self Publishing 2.0: This is pretty much one of those seminal articles that comes along occasionally that should be read by all authors (and all writers for that matter – published or unpublished). It’s not just for those considering self-publishing. It’s written by someone I have a…
Lulu Blog | (Not) Getting Your Book on a Retail Shelf…and the Big ‘E’ RA-RA
Lulu Blog » (Not) Getting Your Book on a Retail Shelf This is always the kind of blog post put out by self-publishing services that irks me. The below piece is from today’s Lulu blog. “I believe that one of the biggest mistakes in any marketing endeavor is not defining a clear goal. It’s easy…
What Self-Publishing Meant To Anders Behring Breivik
The events in Norway over this weekend may seem a million miles away from many of the subjects discussed here. Think again. Anders Behring Breivik will tomorrow appear in a Norwegian court to answer charges of mass-murder. What is different about Breivik is that his perpetrated attacks on innocent people – and what he saw…
Bowker Releases Preliminary 2010 Annual Books in Production Report (PDF link included)
R. R. Bowker today released preliminary figures for book production during 2010 based on their Books in Print database. Traditionally produced books rose by 5% while non-traditionally produced books rose by an astonishing 169%. Be aware that the non-traditional sector is made up by a vast majority of print on demand publishers issuing public domain titles. This…
Lulu CEO Bob Young On The Move From Publishing Services Platform to Open Publishing Platform
Robert Andrews of paidContent caught up with Bob Young, CEO of Lulu, at the World E-Reading Congress in London and discussed the company’s move from self-publishing services platform to an open publishing platform. The Independent Publishing Magazine | TIPM Media
Time We All Took The ‘Self’ From Self-Publishing
In 2010 I wrote an article about Lulu, and in the title for the article, I suggested that It May Be The Time For Lulu To Drop The Self From Self-Publishing. At the end of that article I wrote the following as an explanation as to what I meant. On reflection, and in light of the following Lulu…