Choosing a Publishing/POD Service

April is getting down to brass tacks when it comes to choosing a publishing/POD service based on the upfront costs and back-loaded fees -- plus how you want (or they want!) to price your book. Lots of useful charts and graphs in her presentation showing how to do the math.

You can get a taste of this by looking at her blog post that compares Lulu and CreateSpace.


POSTED BY JANE FRIEDMAN

Print-on-Demand Gotchas

April Hamilton is discussing print-on-demand "gotchas":

• Full color POD costs typically require author to set a list price most buyers aren't willing to pay.
• POD printer vs. POD publisher. Who is the "publisher of record"? If they are the publisher of record, they are acting as a publishing service rather than a printer.
  
• Are you allowed to publish the same material elsewhere?
• Must you sign away any rights? (Avoid.)
  

POSTED BY JANE FRIEDMAN