NOTE: This company is closed as of March, 2016 and in liquidation. Original Writing is an Irish self-publishing service and was founded in 2006. Based in Smithfield, Dublin, the company has become one of Ireland’s most popular choices for authors looking for self-publishing packages. A couple of years ago, Garreth Bonner, Sales and Marketing Manager with…
Pen Press Publishing (Indepenpress) – Reviewed (Updated – August 2012)
Pen Press is a self-publishing service operated by Indepenpress Publishing Ltd, based in Brighton in the UK. They are a publishing solutions service who offer tailor-made options across a wide range of budgets to authors from a ‘5 Book Deal’ to a ‘Full Partnership service’. What strikes you immediately about Pen Press when you browse…
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…
Has the POD Publishing Bubble Burst?
I normally write the article and then we engage in discussion, but like some of the changes I’ve introduced recently for The Independent Publishing Magazine, I’ll hold my own thoughts, just for now. The backdrop is the monoliths in the self-publishing world like Author Solutions may own companies like Xlibris, iUniverse, AuthorHouse and WordClay, but in…
The Independent Publishing Magazine | The King is Dead – Long Live The King
POD, Self-Publishing & Independent Publishing is dead. Long live The Independent Publishing Magazine! Regular visitors this evening will have noticed some subtle changes to the layout of the site. Over the past three and a half years I have introduced changes to the site, ranging from new design layouts to help filter out a sense…
Amazon Japan Launches Print-On-Demand Program for Publishers
Image via CrunchBase Amazon Japan has launched a print-on-demand program for publishers. From the press release: Amazon.co.jp today announced a new Print-on-Demand (POD) program for Books, which dramatically expands the selection of titles available to customers and offers publishers a cost-effective way to make the broadest possible range of their authors’ titles available. Using POD…
Aventine Press – Reviewed (Updated, March 2011)
Aventine Press is one of those publishing services I continually keep coming across when I read about self-published books, particular in online magazines and self-publishing reviews. It’s like stumbling upon a sheepdog in a country cabin in the mountains sprawled out in front of a roaring fire. You know you are home and you don’t…
Xulon Press – Reviewed (Updated, March 2011)
Xulon Press was founded by author and publisher Tom Freiling in 1999, and the company is part of the large media and communications group, Salem Communications Corporation, based in the USA. Salem is a Christian communications media group with commercial interests in radio, the Internet, and magazine publishing, and not surprisingly, Xulon Press claims to…
Self-Publishing Index – January 2011
This is the first SELF-PUBLISHING INDEX for 2011 for author solutions services. It is something we began on June 2010 when all the companies were put into ‘flotation’. Here is the latest index for January 2011. There is little change in the top ten positions but two notable movers are Wingspan and Blurb – Blurb,…
Andrew Sullivan Turns Again to Blurb
Andrew Sullivan Turns Again to Blurb “For the second time, author, editor, and blogger Andrew Sullivan has taken reader content on his 10-year-old Daily Dish blog on the Atlantic Web site and created a crowd-sourced printed book published by Blurb and sold through its online bookstore. Last Friday Sullivan blogged about how the book, The…