Saturday, March 19, 2016
New Print Technologies Help Art Books Survive in a Digital World - The New York Times
New Print Technologies Help Art Books Survive in a Digital World - The New York Times: “Print technologies have gotten so advanced,” said Elisa Leshowitz, director of publisher services at D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, the largest distributor of art books and museum exhibition catalogs. “You pick up a book from 1980, something that was considered an important art book back in the day. And you compare the quality of its printing to today’s printing, and you essentially see that we’ve come a very long way. The amount of colors that can be used to replicate an original illustration. The extensive selection of papers available. Things have gotten very exciting.”
Saturday, March 12, 2016
Printing on demand set to aid new authors, publishers - Times of India
Printing on demand set to aid new authors, publishers - Times of India: CHENNAI: Banking on an unknown author with talent has always been a risk that publishers are forced to take. But with a fresh crop of print-on-demand printers like Pothi.com, CinnamonTeal Publishing, Exeter Premedia Services, Partridge India, new authors are finding it easy to get their work on Flipkart, Amazon, Snapdeal, etc.
Tuesday, March 08, 2016
The NOOK's weird death-march - Gene Doucette
The NOOK's weird death-march - Gene Doucette: Brief aside, in which I explain a little bit about self-publishing distribution
There are, in the U.S., five main ebook distribution outlets for a self-published author: Amazon, NOOK, Apple, Kobo and Google Play. Each of these five have distinctive quirks that make them uniquely frustrating in their own special way, which I won’t go into now.
If publishing ‘direct’ with all of these companies, one has to acquaint oneself with five completely distinctive publishing dashboards to upload five unique-to-that-outlet files (because of format requirements and backmatter links, and oh god, I’m sorry I mentioned backmatter, that’s not worth explaining right this moment, forget I said that). Alternatively, one could go to a service like Smashwords or D2D—both companies also sell direct, but aren’t very good at it—and have them submit files to everyone else.
This sounds like a better deal, but of course the aggregator services take a cut of each sale, and there are a few other very good reasons to go direct instead that I won’t go into here other than to say some merchants don’t exactly fall over themselves to push books that aren’t direct.
There are, in the U.S., five main ebook distribution outlets for a self-published author: Amazon, NOOK, Apple, Kobo and Google Play. Each of these five have distinctive quirks that make them uniquely frustrating in their own special way, which I won’t go into now.
If publishing ‘direct’ with all of these companies, one has to acquaint oneself with five completely distinctive publishing dashboards to upload five unique-to-that-outlet files (because of format requirements and backmatter links, and oh god, I’m sorry I mentioned backmatter, that’s not worth explaining right this moment, forget I said that). Alternatively, one could go to a service like Smashwords or D2D—both companies also sell direct, but aren’t very good at it—and have them submit files to everyone else.
This sounds like a better deal, but of course the aggregator services take a cut of each sale, and there are a few other very good reasons to go direct instead that I won’t go into here other than to say some merchants don’t exactly fall over themselves to push books that aren’t direct.
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