I am considering "Create Space" as a publisher
The parent Company is: On-Demand Publishing, LLC, This company is owned by Amazon.com Make no mistake about this is a Vanity press but, it is one with extras. You can sell on Amazon or their own site....
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At any rate do please post here if you know anything about this site or maybe a better one.
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What I'm leery of is that through CreateSpace and BookSurge, Amazon would control distribution of both paper and electronic formats. For example, two of the e-book formats I offer for my own work are...
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The CreatSpace agreement does expressly use the world "nonexclusive" to eliminate the problems of total control. Either party can terminate the agreement at will. Those are pretty good elements.
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Here's what I read in the agreement (I use asterisks to emphasize terms): Section 1: "We reserve the right to change the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement ..." -- always something to...
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I thought the section 6 was bizarre. It does not say that they can sell the work in perpetuity. what it is saying is that they can leave it on their systems and let people access excerpts in searches ....
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I still feel squirrely about the big conglomerates, especially when it comes to contracts that can be interpreted in different ways. Mind you, I'm speaking strictly as a layman here. I share your...
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I am half way to seeing them demanding my SS and managing my taxes as a good thing. I only need to see one screw up once. Suddenly I am in the big leagues. Of course in order for them to screw up I...
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Cliff, my general advice on this is to consider vanity/POD publishers only as a last resort, when you have truly exhausted every other possibility. There are probably a dozen good sf/fantasy agents -...
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************Cliff, my general advice on this is to consider vanity/POD publishers only as a last resort, when you have truly exhausted every other possibility. There are probably a dozen good...
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Here are the agents I can think of offhand: Donald Maass, Russell Galen, Merilee Heifetz, Writer's House, Howard Morhaim, Shawna McCarthy, Matthew Bialer, Joshua Bilmes Small press publishers would be...
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