Once upon a time, the dream of being published only became a reality for a small minority of individuals. However, independent publishing — brought to you by the power of modern technology — has made this dream a reality for countless high-quality authors who may have never gotten a chance with a publishing house. If…
Publishing Service Index: December 2017 [with notes]
This is the PUBLISHING SERVICE INDEX for December 2017. Our last index was released in September 2017. The index continues to shrink and the latest index sees the final departure of five companies. Frankly, they were bottom of the pile service providers. So, I shed no tears. Originally I compiled the index, month-to-month, but I found…
Publishing Service Index: September 2017 (Notes Included)
This is the PUBLISHING SERVICE INDEX for September 2017. Our last index was released in May 2017. Originally I compiled the index, month-to-month, but I found the work involved to update almost 90 companies and service providers (now 82) was not being compensated by enough changes on the index over a short period of weeks. Indeed, some months…
Imprimermonlivre.com Partners with Mybestseller to Offer New Self-Publishing Services
Dutch publishing service provider Mybestseller continues to expand its European business market and has partnered with French print-on-demand company Jouve. From the press release: Paris, September 27th, 2016 – Jouve’s website “Imprimermonlivre.com”, aimed at the general public, has enjoyed increasing popularity over the past few years. The website enables anyone to print a book on a small budget in…
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…
Callio Press (BookForce UK/Discovered Authors) – Reviewed (Updated May 2011)
0 Discovered Authors (now Callio Press) is a UK publisher and provider of author solutions services since 2005. I have been aware of them for the past three to four years. The company was one of the earliest UK author solution services I took a look at, but consistently, I have had to put off reviewing…
POD Index – June 2010
The POD INDEX for author solutions services is something we have been working on for the past couple of months and over three days of the weekend we compiled the June 2010 index (56) which marks the first month of flotation for all the author solutions services we have reviewed. More details on the POD Index…
POD Index for Author Solutions Services – Coming Soon
The POD INDEX for author solutions services is something we have been working on for the past couple of months. The most asked question we get at POD, Self-Publishing & Independent Publishing is often along the lines of; ‘What self-publishing service should I go with?‘; ‘Is so and so a good service to go with?‘;…
Bookmasters Launch Full-Scale Self-Publishing Distribution Services with AUTURO
The BookMasters Group has announced the launch of full-scale digital and print distribution service for self-published authors called AUTURO. AUTURO will provide a broader range of options, including sales, marketing, promotion and publicity than had previously been available from The Bookmasters Group. The new service will include print production as well as digital conversion and…
Thomson-Shore Offer POD with $12m Digital Print Centre
Thomson-Shore printers will begin offering print-on-demand services for publishers and authors as part of a two-year $12m capital improvement project with the installation of a digital print centre. Thomson-Shore has offered very short offset print runs of as few as 150 copies to authors, small presses and universities, but their new digital centre will allow…