I recently came across Manfred Macx, which has a very interesting intro:
This site started with two ideas.  1)  Ebooks should always be free, and 2)  Authors need to eat.
What would the publishing industry be like without pulping hundreds of thousands of books a year?  What if authors could control more than 15 or 25% of [...]

April Hamilton, of Publetariat, has a new service for self-publishers called The Publetariat Vault. Unlike other listing services, the Vault will include sales data, as well as reader reviews.  The idea is to make a searchable database for publishing pros to use in order to find authors that are a lower risk to publish.  [...]

This will repeat some of the information mentioned in the inaugural post of Backword Books – an experiment in self-publishing.  Backword Books is a compendium of self-publishers – a kind of hybrid of self-publishing and the traditional literary press.  It’s not a press that uses POD technology because the difference is that each writer on [...]

Since putting up the IndieReader post there’s been some criticism of the service.  Some people criticize IndieReader itself, while one person criticized me in an email for even giving IndieReader a platform. The way I see it: IndieReader is a development in self-publishing, it’s news.  It’s up to writers, to some degree, to determine [...]

Frankly, I’m surprised that so many self-publishers use a service like iUniverse.  I’m an advocate of using a self-publisher that doesn’t call attention to the fact that it’s a self-publisher.  Though many people familiar with self-publishing immediately know the difference between iUniverse, AuthorHouse, Lulu, and so on, there are many more people who do not [...]

I haven’t provided a self-publisher review in some time – and will get back to it soon – but until that time you would do very well to visit Mick Rooney’s comprehensive list of self-publisher reviews at his site [...]

I need to preface this review by stating that I am not an expert on e-readers.  I may run the Self-Publishing Review, but I’ve never actually put my hands on a Kindle.  But as I’m getting an increasing number of submissions via PDF it’s of course necessary to have an e-reader of my own.  This [...]

AuthorHouse is one of the best known, and most widely-used, print on demand self-publishers, but it did not begin so auspiciously.  It was started in 1997 as 1st Books by an author who was fed up with rejections.  Unfortunately, 1st Books was met with a barrage of complaints about the service – including [...]

Cantarabooks, it should be noted, is not the first literary PDF ebook publisher on the internet. That honor goes to Electron Press, a solo operation started by Philip Harris back in 1997.  Philip, by profession an IT consultant, saw the possibilities the internet offered early on and started Electron; and because at the time web [...]

CompletelyNovel.com is a new self-publishing service that is, well, completely novel.  It’s also completely new so there are some features of the site that are not yet in full working condition.  The basic premise of Completely Novel is that users can publish books using a variant on the Lulu system:

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