Dwarf Printing

Leading tech journalist, Gordon Kelly speaks to Brother’s Phil Jones about cost cutting strategies.

My belief is that a good book coming through PODs can be a launching pad for unknown authors with little or no fund to mass-market their first works. Most reputed Publishers go for known publishers. This makes sense. Publishers recoup funds faster than it would have been to nurture debut authors. What makes a book do well is the mass appeal coming from Marketing Strategies by the Publisher. This is the thinking behind my sourcing for reputed PODs.

Hi, I’m an aspiring writer with big dreams. I love the horror and bizarre fantasy tale. Each stems from the dreams and nightmares I have. However, I don’t like modern publishers. First, I want to publish short stories. Modern publishers don’t like to print short stories or anthologies. They hate the risk. What right do a bunch of half bald, old white people in suits have to tell you what is art or what will sell? All that is up to the purchaser and besides, since they control what gets printed they could switch it around. They could only publish short stories or novels from any point of view and it would sell because its all about convincing the mind. I mean take a look at boy bands. The record companies took time to sell and convince everyone that boy bands are good and you should purchase their music (or lack their of), while so many independent musicians don’t get the time of day. It is unfair and not right. Art has already been pissed on.

My question is "Has anyone thought of creating their own book; binding, cover, everything?" I’m not talking about vanity publishing. I mean we have so much technology and the traditional publishing houses are pissing in their pants, scared about self publishing and the technology available to the new author because they know their pocket book will be rocked. So they put up borders to hinder or limit what independent authors can get. Sound familiar???? (hint: Goverment). Lastly there are self publishing authors who give real independent authors a bad name because most of their stuff shouldn’t have been printed in the first place. So again, has anyone thought of publishing the book themselves?: binding it, creating the cover, everything. I’ve seen some people who have created breath taking books out of snake skin, or of exotic quality. How beautiful?? And marketing, christ we have soo much shit on the internet it’s crazy. Anyone see where I’m coming from? And those people who have ’self published’ books with errors, run on sentences, holes in their story, keep on walking. When you print you are not only printing for yourself but for your potential readers. The readers should get their moneys worth. Thank you to everyone for reading my entire rant. lol. And I’m not sure who said this, maybe Ambrose Bierce, "An editor is merely a failed writer". Let the big name publishers put that in their pipe and smoke it!!!
My comment wasn’t made to make traditional publishers shake in their boots. I was just interested in knowing if anybody has thought about it. To me it is fun to know. I’ve seen some good ones. By your comment "They know something that you don’t" What did you mean by that. Thanks Vicky and enjoy your day.

i wrote a novel about a month ago and well, obviously i want to publish it but the thing is- i am clueless about it all.

first;y, i checked online on tips and how-tos but they all are confusing and gibberish, often contradicting.

i am hoping a person in here with expertize on the field can tell me a thing or two about publishing a novel.
i am ready to print it and re-read it.
what are Print on Demand? do i need to do it? do i need an editorial still? do i need to see a copyrights person for this? (there is an office building with such department near where i live, or do i need to file papers of Copyrights and send, ect…)
how does the process go and how long it takes and when do i start earning my royalties? do i need a cover artist or i can use my hand and submit my own art work (yes, i can draw GOOD)? do i need to pay for some the these things? how do i know my publisher is trustworthy? do i need a publisher or i can do it myself? because i read of those who well, relinquish your ownership of your work and i dont want that.

i have checked the sites; www.Xlibris.com and im not so sure… i checked with Vertigo but well, they say ‘to go to a Con and check with some guys and see if they are intersted…

BTW its is a written novel, sci-fi and it has mature contents and ’super heroes and villains’…

help-y plz and thnx ^.^

I’m designing a new E-book RPG game supplement and a Print on Demand company would like to place an advertisement in it.

I feel this is a good fit as they will be paying me money to put the add in the book and people that buy the book will know where to get it printed if they want a nice looking hard copy.

The dilemma I have is what to charge them. I haven’t a clue how to gauge the value of the advertisement.

The supplement is going to be a freebie, a taste of what our products are like, so I’m sure that people are going to be grabbing it just for the heck of it.

How much do you think is not enough?
How much do you think is too much?

Me losing my sh#t after receiving a batch of books from my print-on-demand publisher, lulu.com. Actually pretty funny given how calm, cool, and collected I usually am. But seriously, Lulu.com HAS to come up with a better way of packaging and shipping. This is the most wasteful packaging I have ever encountered.

These Rapid machines use Memjet printhead technology and that is why they can print so fast. Short runs are a real breeze with these.. These are the best digital lable printers around.

I use Amazon quite a bit and I haven’t had any trouble with their shipping. However, I’m also a new author (self-published). My books are print-on-demand. But according to some of Amazon’s INDEPENDENT booksellers, they all have in-stock copies of my book ready to ship. They also listed "used" items before any of my books were actually sold. (that’s a cute trick) So my question is: Are they waiting for people to place orders and lying about having "in-stock" inventory? Or are they printing books themselves? Are people really getting fast shipping from these independents? I’ve used an independent bookseller one time, and my package arrived empty. They never returned my calls, so I reversed payment.
Source: Ten Generations of Bondage
http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Generations-Bondage-Johari-Ade/dp/1436316650/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229285916&sr=1-2

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