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# Self Publishing - Thinking About Writing a Book? 12/9/2004 3:20 AM Marcus Mac Innes' Blog

# Self Publishing - Thinking About Writing a Book? 12/9/2004 6:24 AM Marcus Mac Innes' Blog

# re: A Gaggle of Information on Self Publishing 12/9/2004 11:16 AM Morris Rosenthal

I made the transition from being a trade published computer book author to self-published, and lived to be happy about it. I still do one book for McGraw-Hill, Build Your Own PC, currently in it's 4th edition, but that's largely due to the contract I signed six years ago and the fact Print-on-Demand isn't really up to photographs yet. I wrote a case study showing the actual sales, profits and costs of the first computer book I did as print on demand with Lightning Source

www.fonerbooks.com/pod.htm

There's a great deal of confusion in the publishing world between print on demand, the technology, and the subsidy presses that take advatage of it to publish thousands of titles a year. Lightning Source prints and distributes books (through Ingram) for over 3,000 different publishers, including the major trades and academic presses, not just the big subsidy houses. Instead of earning 15% of net as an author, I earn 50% of the cover price as the publisher.

# re: A Gaggle of Information on Self Publishing 12/22/2004 7:32 AM Lee

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