Speaking Of Publishing
Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:27![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_phil_physicsThe Unspeakable
My darling sister sent me an email, explaining how someone she corresponds with through work has just published a novel. Something about the phrasing of "Googling his name" and "it's available on Amazon" made me suspicious -- and so I looked up his book. The publisher is iUniverse. If you Google "iUniverse", you find:
This guy's book is self-published. He didn't find a publishing house and an editor willing to pay him and publish his book -- he paid someone else to put his book out there. Amazon will sell them, too -- they don't care. But this isn't proper publishing.
I will say that as a business, iUniverse gets higher marks than PublishAmerica. See the Wikipedia entry on "Atlanta Nights".
And there are times that printing a book or producing a POD (Print On Demand) from iUniverse or LuLu is useful -- a previously published best-selling author I know recently used LuLu to produce a handful of draft copies of one of his novels to hand around to people before it was published. I might try that myself sometime. But claiming you are a published author when you did it yourself... sorry. Not Kosher.
LOLSMIAGTIWEAT
(laughing out loud so much it's a good thing I wasn't eating at the time)
What I hadn't read before were the blurbs for Atlanta Nights.
Oh my...
Oh my. (wipes eyes)
Dr. Phil
My darling sister sent me an email, explaining how someone she corresponds with through work has just published a novel. Something about the phrasing of "Googling his name" and "it's available on Amazon" made me suspicious -- and so I looked up his book. The publisher is iUniverse. If you Google "iUniverse", you find:
iUniverse, the leading book publisher, offers the best book publishing services in the self publishing industry. Chosen as the leading print on demand book ...
This guy's book is self-published. He didn't find a publishing house and an editor willing to pay him and publish his book -- he paid someone else to put his book out there. Amazon will sell them, too -- they don't care. But this isn't proper publishing.
I will say that as a business, iUniverse gets higher marks than PublishAmerica. See the Wikipedia entry on "Atlanta Nights".
And there are times that printing a book or producing a POD (Print On Demand) from iUniverse or LuLu is useful -- a previously published best-selling author I know recently used LuLu to produce a handful of draft copies of one of his novels to hand around to people before it was published. I might try that myself sometime. But claiming you are a published author when you did it yourself... sorry. Not Kosher.
LOLSMIAGTIWEAT
(laughing out loud so much it's a good thing I wasn't eating at the time)
What I hadn't read before were the blurbs for Atlanta Nights.
Oh my...
Oh my. (wipes eyes)
Dr. Phil
