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Mick Rooney commented on the blog post Apple's Self-Publishing App is Useless

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:34:55 +0000

Mick Rooney commented on the blog post Apple's Self-Publishing App is Useless I think the implicit point that Henry makes is valid. This is only 'free' to a select group of Apple users - meaning - it's exclusive. Something free doesn't come 'exclusive' to an OS or what software you have installed. If it's free - my mind never touches my back pocket. But hats off to [...]

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Mick Rooney commented on the blog post Do Self-Publishers Need to Lighten Up?

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:18:43 +0000

Mick Rooney commented on the blog post Do Self-Publishers Need to Lighten Up? I don't think it is too early to make that pronouncement. We are all in the same boat. In many ways, we've always been in the same boat. The best self-published books are about being in that boat, and that's what the cream of them have been arguing for years. They have their tickets! What [...]

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Mick Rooney commented on the blog post What's So "Indie" About Indie Writers?

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 01:58:22 +0000

Mick Rooney commented on the blog post What's So "Indie" About Indie Writers? On the point of publishing convention, and what independence should mean - well, the biggest trap mainstream publishing has fallen into is to be simply be reactive. Mainstream publishing is struggling with a publishing 'convention' which doesn't allow it to connect with readers as offering something new or refreshing. The structure of publishing - with [...]

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Mick Rooney commented on the blog post What's So "Indie" About Indie Writers?

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:09:50 +0000

Mick Rooney commented on the blog post What's So "Indie" About Indie Writers? An exceptional piece from Tom. And to be fair, I don't think he is trying to give self-published authors a hard time, but rather, question the validity of the term 'indie', and what value it really has. I think for a long time, authors going it alone wanted to steer away from the 'self-published' tag, [...]

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Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: Balboa Press Review

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:51:12 +0000

Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: Balboa Press Review Balboa Press is the paid-publishing division of self-help book publisher Hay House Publishing . All their packages and services are administered and powered by Author Solutions (ASI) , a global provider of self-publishing services and solutions. ASI has similar partnerships in place with other mainstream publishers and these types of self-publishing service divisions look set to become more commonplace in [...]

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Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: Blurb Review

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:02:05 +0000

Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: Blurb Review Blurb was founded by Eileen Gittens, a highly successful business woman with US global companies Kodak and Wall Data amongst others on her CV. She studied photography in her younger days and set up Blurb as on line self-publishing solutions company to serve the needs of both photographers and authors. In spite of all her success, [...]

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Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: SelfPublishing.com Review

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:45:10 +0000

Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: SelfPublishing.com Review Selfpublishing.com has the name every author solutions service would love to have got their hands on. Company founder Ron Pramschufer, a veteran of the print and publishing industry and author of the widely popular self-publishing guide, Publishing Basics - a Guide for the Small Press and Independent Self-Publisher (Navigating the Self Publishing Minefield) , proved to be the [...]

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Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: CreateSpace Review

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:13:19 +0000

Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: CreateSpace Review CreateSpace is the publishing engine of global online retailer and publisher Amazon. Createspace began life in 2002 as CustomFlix Labs (DVD), originally intended to make widespread distribution easier for independent filmmakers by providing on-demand DVD production. In 2000, a small group of writers pooled resources to form Booksurge with the intention of creating opportunities for authors to self-publish [...]

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Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: Cold River Studio Review

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:10:37 +0000

Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: Cold River Studio Review Cold River Studio , based in Tennessee, USA, offer graphic design and self-publishing services for writers, designers and corporate clients. The principal partner of the company is Peter Honsberger , formerly of Cold Tree Publishing.

“We believe in the importance of creative collaboration between clients, writers, editors, and designers. In the spirit of that collaboration, we strive to treat every client [...]

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Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: Diadem Books Review

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 04:28:11 +0000

Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: Diadem Books Review Diadem Books are a Scottish author solutions company based in Fife, Scotland, and run by Charles Muller, a South African born academic and former hotelier. An author in his own right, he founded Diadem Books in 1997 and for many years used iUniverse’s print on demand service to issue Diadem’s published books. Diadem became a sister [...]

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Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: Aventine Press Review

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:35:53 +0000

Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: Aventine Press Review Aventine Press is one of those publishing services I continually keep coming across when I read about self-published books, particular in online magazines and self-publishing reviews. It's like stumbling upon a sheepdog in a country cabin in the mountains sprawled out in front of a roaring fire. You know you are home and you don't have [...]

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Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: Authors Online Review

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:14:55 +0000

Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: Authors Online Review Authors Online describe their company as an author solutions service. They proudly claim to be the original UK based company to offer a digital Print On Demand publishing service with full distribution. They may have been, but a lot has changed in self-publishing since they first began in internet publishing in 1997. There are more companies [...]

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Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: Wingspan Press Review

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:07:25 +0000

Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: Wingspan Press Review ">Wingspan Press is a US based author solutions service with offices in Livermore, Northern California, just a few miles shy of San Francisco. They were formed around a group of frustrated writers tired of the commercial sales-driven publishing world and the ‘agent/publisher loop’. So Wingspan Press began, (frustrations I assume finally cast aside) with a focus [...]

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Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: Wasteland Press Review

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:51:25 +0000

Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: Wasteland Press Review Wasteland Press is an author solutions service based in Shelbyville, Kentucky. I might stand corrected, but I think this is the first company we have reviewed from the state of Kentucky. Timothy Veeley is their CEO and he started Wasteland Press in 2000. I thought it a rather disparaging name for an author solutions service, but [...]

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Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: Virtual Bookworm Publishing Review

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 02:21:02 +0000

Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: Virtual Bookworm Publishing Review When I first started researching companies who provide author solutions services some years ago, Virtualbookworm was one high on the radar. About four or five years ago, had you dropped ‘self-publishing’ as a keyword into a Google search or visited many self-publishing resources looking for information on self-publishing, you can bet VBW would have been pretty high [...]

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Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: Matador Publishing Review

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:53:56 +0000

Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: Matador Publishing Review Matador is the self-publishing imprint of Troubador Publishing based in Leicester, England. Troubador itself is a commercial publisher founded in 1990, but the Matador imprint for self-publishing authors was launched in 1999. Matador offers self-publishing authors a wide range of services, from the design and production of a book, through to marketing and distribution. In the past [...]

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Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: Infinity Publishing Review

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:43:50 +0000

Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: Infinity Publishing Review There is one factor which singles out Infinity Publishing from many other author solutions services. From the very beginning, in 1997, Infinity Publishing did all their POD printing in-house and offered authors a non-exclusive contract. They describe what they do as ‘originated book publishing’, but the self-publishing industry and the world at large doesn’t really need another [...]

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Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: Dog Ear Publishing Review

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:10:24 +0000

Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: Dog Ear Publishing Review Dog Ear Publishing is a US author solutions service located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Formed in 2004 by co-owners, Ray Robinson, Miles Nelson and Alan Harris, all three have had varied careers in the book world, from Waldenbooks, Pearson Education Publishers, as well as backgrounds in book packaging and the graphic design and print industries. This mix [...]

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Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: BookLocker Review

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:42:11 +0000

Mick Rooney wrote a new blog post: BookLocker Review BookLocker is run by Angela and Richard Hoy and they take a highly writer centered approach to POD publishing. Angela also runs Writersweekly, a marketing magazine for authors, and is also a former TV reporter and successful self-published writer. Most POD publishers have little or no manuscript screening process, but BookLocker does, and their aim is [...]

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Mick Rooney commented on the blog post Agent/Publishers

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 01:54:01 +0000

Mick Rooney commented on the blog post Agent/Publishers This is a absolute minefield, Henry. As an agent, Peter Cox believes agents should not set up imprints to publish their clients books out of rights. He believes the line of agent/publisher should not be crossed. Agents should represent their authors, and deal with publishing avenues on behalf of the author. But yes, you've made [...]

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