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This was on the TV this morning
http://cbsnews.com/earlyshow/entertainment/books/20020131firstbooks_publishi
ng.shtml
This is the company website.
http://www.1stbooks.com/getpublished/1st_book.html
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This is a take off on an old idea called "vanity press". These are
publishers that for fee will publish anything as long as you pay all the
costs. There is almost no risk for the publisher since they make sure their
costs are covered by the writer. Its a route people take when they get lots
of rejections. As far as I know no one has every made any money from a
vanity publication, and there has never been a best seller in this space.
Mitch
"Tom Galvin" <tom### [at] nospam dataforgecom> wrote in message
news:3c595775$1@news.povray.org...
> This was on the TV this morning
>
http://cbsnews.com/earlyshow/entertainment/books/20020131firstbooks_publishi
> ng.shtml
>
> This is the company website.
> http://www.1stbooks.com/getpublished/1st_book.html
>
>
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"Mitchell Waite" <mit### [at] dnaicom> wrote in message
news:3c598f68@news.povray.org...
> This is a take off on an old idea called "vanity press". These are
> publishers that for fee will publish anything as long as you pay all the
> costs. There is almost no risk for the publisher since they make sure
their
> costs are covered by the writer. Its a route people take when they get
lots
> of rejections. As far as I know no one has every made any money from a
> vanity publication, and there has never been a best seller in this space.
>
> Mitch
>
Yes it is a spin on the vanity press, but Print On Demand technology has
reduced
the price to a point where it is reasonable. Also this option allow for
more Titles to
be available, and you don't have to worry about a title being "Out of
Print". This route
allows niche authors with valid content to be published.
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In article <3c598f68@news.povray.org> , "Mitchell Waite" <mit### [at] dnaicom>
wrote:
> This is a take off on an old idea called "vanity press". These are
> publishers that for fee will publish anything as long as you pay all the
> costs. There is almost no risk for the publisher since they make sure their
> costs are covered by the writer. Its a route people take when they get lots
> of rejections. As far as I know no one has every made any money from a
> vanity publication, and there has never been a best seller in this space.
If it is backed by a big publishing company, i.e. www.bod.com/www.bod.de there
are certain uses:
One is to fulfill the publication availability/delivery requirement of a PhD
thesis (i.e. in Germany one usually needs to submit 25 or so copies of the
thesis and/or get it published, don't know if there is such a requirement in
other countries).
Or a way to make manuals or out-of-print titles available without having any
administrative overhead. One example in the USA is Apple, which uses a
similar (commercial only) service to make rarely requested developer
documentation available to a much more affordable price compared to what it
did cost before, when most of it was published through Addison Wesley.
Thorsten
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