Where Is Publishing Headed?
With the big publishing houses losing more and more money, while companies like Amazon gain a greater share of book revenue, what lies in the cards for publishing as a business?
Having just published my own first novel THE RECKONING as a POD through BookSurge, I found the comments made in response to this New York Times Magazine article every bit as interesting as the article itself.
My own take: Big publishers are going to have to embrace, at the very least, the concept of offering their books in POD form, so as not to lose so much money on returned merchandise...and they're going to have to rein in the kinds of advances they've been offering. I wonder if somehow Authors will begin to be offered in a kind of draft lottery (as in the NBA and NFL), so as to be able to control the auction-style bidding wars between publishing houses? Something to think about.
posted by Tanya Parker Mills @ 1:03 PM
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4 Comments:
To Ms. Tanya Parker Mills
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Naval Langa
Interesting info. What does Booksurge do with Pod format? Do they have a way for you to publish your audio book? I've never worked with Booksurge, but I'm hearing a lot of good things about them.
- Chas
http://chas.willowrise.com
As far as I'm aware, BookSurge only deals with books. But back in 2007, Amazon started up CreateSpace (mainly to compete with Lulu). I've read that CreateSpace will do books, CDs, audio books, etc. You might want to check it out. I can't vouch for them, however.
With BookSurge, if you're willing to pay the higher fee ($700 +), then you merely submit your edited final manuscript (in Word), and they will convert it to the Adobe PDF file they require to make a POD (print on demand) book. If you're watching your budget and need to go cheaper, then you need to create the Adobe PDF file of your book yourself...BUT BE AWARE...I've read that BookSurge has its own specifications and there are certain tips you need to know to do this successfully. Otherwise, you'll run into lots of problems. These tips are available online and I'll try to get back to you with the website I found them on.
Okay, Chas, here's the website I was mentioning above:
http://www.neilslade.com/myown3.html#BOOKSURGE_SUBMISSION_SECRETS_REVEALED
This guy tried to go the express (cheaper) route and learned the hard way.
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