Author Solutions Inc has continued its acquisitions of author solution companies with its latest deal. ASI has bought Canadian based Trafford Publishing, adding them to a large stable of companies which now include, AuthorHouse, iUniverse and recently acquired Xlibris. ASI is owned by Bertram Capital, a private-equity management company. The purchase price was not disclosed.…
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…
Author Solutions Purchases POD Publisher Xlibris
Author Solutions, owned by equity investors Bertram Capital, has continued its strategy of development and expansion in the digital print-on-demand publishing world by purchasing Xlibris, a leading publisher in self-publishing services to authors. The purchase was announced yesterday, Thursday, January 8th, by Author Solutions CEO, Kevin Weiss. The purchase figure was not disclosed. “ASI is…
Review of 2008 POD Publishing Articles
I thought I’d take the opportunity on the final day of 2008 to look back on some of the articles and subjects we have touched on during the year. Overall, the Irish book retail sector has recorded stronger sales than for 2007, a surprise to me in light of the economic downturn and the continued…
POD Publisher Book Ranking – Analysis
I want to have a look at what kinds of books sell best from POD publishers. I have selected five of the ‘heavy-hitters’ of POD publishers and listed their top five books by sales rank on Amazon.co.uk this week. The publishers I have selected are: Outskirts PressAuthorhouseLuluIUniverseXlibris OUTSKIRTS PRESS1. How to Be A Super Hot…
Xlibris – Reviewed
Xlibris has been in existence for more than ten years and since I last looked at their site and publishing services last year, they seem to have revamped things recently. For these articles, I am going to concentrate on the most important and popular service used by authors using POD publishers, a 200pp black and…
MOST REPUTABLE POD PUBLISHER POLL-RESULTS
The results of the POD Publisher Poll concluded today. The poll was run over the past two months and I would like to thank all who took part and voted. Again, the poll was never intended as an exact barometer or science into POD publishers, but instead a guide as to which publishers authors had…
ACTING THE TEAPOT-XLIBRIS!!
Seems the boys and girls in the Xlibris office may have been acting the teapot yesterday with the POD Publishing poll, or the Xlibris lovers and followers have been hiding under a rock for the past two months! The POD Publisher recorded 11 votes overnight and me thinks some boys and girls out there are…
Amazon/Booksurge – Xlibris Update
POD publisher Xlibris look to be one of the ‘big hitters’ who are communicating to their authors that they are not willing to sign up to the current Amazon/Booksurge agreement. In light of Xlibris being one of the bigger POD publishers – it may now encourage those publishers undecided to hold station and stand up…
AuthorHouse & IUniverse Jump Ship to Booksurge
There are no details on the deal both AuthorHouse and IUniverse have done with Amazon/Booksurge, but they are the first of the big hitters to jump from the good ship Ingram/Lightning Source. It remains to be seen exactly how these publishers will deal with the issue of Ingrams and distribution. The issue here is that…