Publishing Power to the People
January 2nd, 2008
Amazon.com Empowers Anyone to Create Their Own Book
I came across a great article this morning on wired that talks about the growing industry of on-demand publishing. On-demand publishing means that an average person can visit a website, upload their book, artwork, music, or movies and have them distributed and printed to paper or disc at the time an order is placed. Thus making it easier for the masses to publish works of art that would remain otherwise unseen. Take a look at the following sites:
I would highlight the second choice CreateSpace as it is a product of Amazon.com. This means that once you upload your book it can be found on the world’s largest marketplace right alongside the likes of Martha Stewart.
That’s all fine and dandy but how much does an aspiring writer have to gain(or lose) by publishing his/her works in this fashion? I ran through a test using CreateSpace and found that to sell my black/white 200pg book via Amazon.com it would cost me roughly $18 per book sold. Not terrible if my manuscript is collecting dust in the closet or the ink on my recipe cards is fading.
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