A group of creatives could do this just as easily as a publishing house, as long as the IP was controlled by a company and not the artists, so the latter could come and go as they see fit. Hell, I’ve already go
Victoria Strauss writes:“I generally advise authors to avoid the Author Solutions self-publishing services (iUniverse, Xlibris, Trafford, AuthorHouse, BookTango, and the self-pub services Author Solutions runs for major publishers, including Thomas Nelson’s WestBow Press and Hay House’s Balboa ...
A worker-owned co-op is the ultimate group project.Owning the Means of Productionis a small but mighty zine full of tools to help you get a co-op up and running, based on the experiences of the Jefferson People's House in Duluth, Minnesota. You can also help your gift recipient show...
This is pretty much what it says on the box: the author produces the first X number of pages of a not-yet-completed novel, and the agent convinces an editor that it will be to the publishing house’s advantage to snap the book up before the author has polished it off. This can be...
They have also shut down their in-house press so they now outsource printing. They are a glorified printing agent now. Website still a horror show. iPhone and iPad apps are an inoperable embarrassment. Can’t sell either apps to potential advertisers. They are down to roughly 30 markets. ...
You have to self-fund your book:A traditional publishing house takes care of funding your book in exchange for large royalties. However, funding self-published work doesn’t need to be expensive.Print-on-demand servicesallow authors to self-publish books with no upfront fees. ...
Finally, the printer will actually create the entire run of your book, and ship the copies to your house, your storage facility, or wherever else you want them delivered (directly to a book wholesaler you have sold to, for example). It's time for the final step: actually marketing and ...
Lost amid all the distractions about the health of publishers and bookstores is the fact thatmost bestselling authors still have day jobs. Even if you develop a steady career with a publishing house, and they buy a book a year from you, a great deal might provide $50,000 per book. Thi...
‘man about the house’. I rented an apartment in the Goutte D’or area of Paris, and explored the district’s history and living narratives. Every day I created a film about the musicians, singers and actors who had lived here during the 1960s, a period I am particularly fond of. ...
The Williams clan needs to de-crap its house, desperately. And we're not the kind of household that buys ever gadget or a ton of furniture on a whim; we just have a bad habit of not being able to toss much out or donate it when the time arises. Not to mention that one of us ...