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Manfred Macx: Free Ebook Publishing with a Profit

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 the net from their books? Publishers provide many valuable services to authors, but it’s time authors could take advantage of new methods of distribution, of marketing, of getting books in the hands of readers.

That’s where Manfred Macx comes in.

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Jon Renaut2011-10-08T18:50:57+02:00November 14th, 2009|Categories: Publisher Reviews|

UniBook Review

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Unibook, short for ‘your own unique book are owned by Peleman Industries, a manufacturer of binding, laminating and presentation products for nearly seventy years. Unibook, formerly known as WWAOW, have offices in Europe as well as the USA. Unibook aim their business and services at self-publishing authors as well as the corporate and government sectors.

http://www.unibook.com/static/blog/

The website has plenty of information, though, it can take a while to find and extract what is needed. They list their authors’ books by bestsellers and new releases linked on the main web page and they have their […]

Mick Rooney2017-02-12T09:11:17+02:00August 16th, 2009|Categories: Publisher Reviews|Tags: Subsidy Publishing|

Pomegranate Press Review

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Pomegranate Press is a small UK local press based in Sussex, initially specialising in books about the Sussex area. Pomegranate has since expanded its listings to include other non-fiction and fiction titles. Pomegranate also offers a personal self-publishing service for authors. Pomegranate Press was founded by former newspaper journalist and BBC producer and presenter, David Arscott. He has worked as a freelance author, broadcaster, publisher and editor for many years and has written some thirty books on Sussex, for various publishers apart from Pomegranate Press. His published fiction includes two novels written with David […]

Mick Rooney2017-02-12T09:11:28+02:00July 15th, 2009|Categories: Publisher Reviews|Tags: Subsidy Publishing|

Epic Press Review

Epic Press are a small and new player onto the author solution scene. The company was established in 2007. They use Lightning Source UK and USA, and proclaim on their website that they provide print, distribution and fulfilment, but in reality, it is LSI who provide all this on their behalf, as is the case for many other such companies. Their website uses flash media in a ‘book style’ display, but this is the only book of any kind on the website. Epic Press also do not support their own on line book store.

“Because of our unique, innovative referral

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Mick Rooney2017-02-12T09:11:14+02:00July 15th, 2009|Categories: Publisher Reviews|Tags: Subsidy Publishing|

Introducing the Publetariat Vault

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. Indie Reader, another for-pay listing service, is aimed primarily at readers (hence the name).

As it says on the site,

The Publetariat Vault is a searchable database of independent literary works for which the authors own all rights free and clear and are interested

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Henry Baum2011-10-08T19:53:54+02:00June 23rd, 2009|Categories: Lead Story, Publisher Reviews|

Introducing: Backword Books

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 Backword uses a different method to print books – iUniverse, Lulu, Lightning Source, and so on.

The idea of the site is to start small and grow from there – selecting a few strong, well-reviewed self-published writers and seeing where it takes us. Even though […]

Henry Baum2011-10-08T19:01:10+02:00June 16th, 2009|Categories: Lead Story, Publisher Reviews|

In Defense of IndieReader.com

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 if it’s a good idea or not. I have actually been critical of IndieReader in that past – citing that it’s very expensive next to a place like AuthorsBookshop, which only charges $30 or so to be listed on the site.

I don’t think IndieReader […]

Henry Baum2011-10-08T19:09:37+02:00May 15th, 2009|Categories: Publisher Reviews|

iUniverse Review

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 know the difference – especially readers who are not also writers.

Your least savvy reader is going to know that a publishing entity called iUniverse is not your typical press. It has something to do with printing a book via a computer. Right off, […]

Henry Baum2011-10-17T04:11:09+02:00May 5th, 2009|Categories: Publisher Reviews|