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| For printing purposes, is it better to self-publish with Ingram Spark, KDP, or Barnes & Noble? Ingram Spark is where my local libraries obtain their books, and some stores do, too. KDP has improved their hardcover prints, but I think they don't stock stores because stores want to be able to sell back unsold books. Barnes & Noble comes with the advantage of allowing slots for authors to host events in-store, to have promos, and I'm told their hardcover prints are also quite beautiful. I currently self-publish through Draft2Digital, which has been great, but they only have paperback print-on-demand, and stores don't seem to want to carry items from them. D2D does a great job with the ebook formats, so I'm not worrying about ebooks at this time. Thoughts? |
I've added a new entry to my book, "Sorji's Blog"  : "It's mine! All mine! (Reversion of Rights signed)" |
| One of the best things about being in the craft is that you never stop learning, no matter how fat one's pockets may get. Thanks for sharing your experiences with publishing... it might help a fellow WdC'er make better decisions. |
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| Joey says" Happy 2025 - I hope it helps someone. If it can save 1 person from having a bad experience with publishing, I'll consider it a win. |
Reply| After over a month of fighting with the publisher of my first book, I will soon have a Reversion of Rights letter in my email. I'm sad that it will be delisted soon, but I'm really excited to have a chance to do some editing because the aforementioned publisher failed to make some of the changes I submitted. Also, I finished it in 2020, so I would like to use the skills I've learned since then to improve it. Maybe I'll seek another publisher. Maybe I'll self-publish it and move on. I'm just happy that I will soon have it back in my own hands. |
| Joey says" Happy 2025 - Obviously, paying out of pocket to publish is a scam, but there are definitely big traditional publishers who don't require agents. Hatchett owns Bookouture, who do not require agents and are almost always taking submissions. Arcadia is also a Hatchett imprint and do not require agents (I don't know if they're always accepting submissions, though). I know several people who have had great success with the smaller imprints owned by the big guys. If you go straight to the big names, you definitely need an agent, but if you look at the smaller prints they own, it's not impossible to submit it yourself. If the name attached to it doesn't matter, I have 69 more reputable publishers who don't require agents on my Excel spreadsheet. Mostly, I need to make the right decision for my work. I'm not worried about the rest of it. |
Carol St.Ann  - Glad to see you online! I wondered how you were doing, but I'm always worried that I'm bothering you over nothing more than a "Hi!"  |
| I've added a new entry to my book, "Sorji's Blog" : "The Blog Post before the Final blog post for this year" |
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