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Paths to Publishing
by, Jill Swenson
August 11, 2015

The business of publishing continues to evolve and new finance models have emerged in recent years. There is a lot of new middle ground between self-publishing – Amazon, Smashwords, Lulu – and the traditional route of finding an agent who sells your work to one of the big commercial trade presses – Penguin Random House, Hatchette Book Group, Harper Collins, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster…. [Read More]

Filed Under: academic presses, Beacon Press, Cooperative Publishing, Distribution, IndieGoGo, Kickstarter, marketing strategy, Nonprofit Publishers, Publishers, Publishing, subsidy
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Pathways to Publishing
by, Jill Swenson
August 27, 2013
The convention floor at Book Expo America - photo by Ashley Grill

The business of publishing continues to evolve and new finance models have emerged offering authors more than the option to self-publish or go the traditional route. Between the five big commercial trade presses – Penguin Random House, Hatchette Book Group, Harper Collins, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster – and self-publishing with Blurb, or Smashwords, there are new routes for writers to consider in their pursuit… [Read More]

Filed Under: Crowdsourcing, ebooks, IndieGoGo, Kickstarter, Non-profit publishers, Print-on-demand, Publishing Cooperatives, subsidy
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