iUniverse Guided Self - Publishing from
an Author Solutions company iUniverse uses the term «guided self - publishing» to describe its robust range of DIY publishing services, which are laid out much the same way as in a traditional publisher — at a la carte and package prices.
** IUniverse,
a Author Solutions company, has a particularly unfavorable way of calculating author prices.
I published my first novel, Silver — Currents of Change, through i - Universe,
an Author Solutions company.
If you are working with a designer or
an author solutions company that provides design work, we strongly recommend providing them with a copy.
This is
the Author Solutions company profile.
As I read it, if
the Author Solutions company continues to sell your book beyond that one year, your only remedy is to collect royalties on their sales.
(This may be in the agreements of the other
Author Solutions companies, but I could not find them on line.)
AuthorHouse, Xlibris, Trafford, West Bow and the various other
Author Solutions companies are for those who prefer a more professional and catered experience.
While it may sound simple to create a Kindle book or CreateSpace or Lulu or any number of the 20 +
Author Solutions companies, what people unskilled in publshing do not realize:
If you feel that you have been duped or conned in dealings with any of
the Author Solutions companies, speak up.
Author Solutions companies (iUniverse, Xlibris, etc.) keep a whopping 80 %... I'm just saying that Book Country isn't unique.
All Author Solutions companies let authors cancel their contracts with (I think) 30 days» notice.
In its new report, Bowker also provides breakout figures on ISBNs assigned to works published by writers through
Author Solutions companies, totaling 23,930 for both print and ebooks in 2015, down from 41,304 ISBNs in 2010.
Not exact matches
Companies should also use two - factor authentication for customer logins, according to Adam Levin, chairman and founder of IDT911, a Montreal - based security
solutions company, and
author of «Swiped.»
«The thing
companies need most is often what they get least: the truth,» says Mindy Mackenzie,
author of The Courage
Solution: The Power of Truth Telling with Your Boss, Peers, and Team.
Nilofer Merchant, a business consultant and the
author of «The New How: Creating Business
Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy Paperback,» shares with TED audiences how she's helped several major
companies develop successful new ideas: walking meetings.
This
company helps researchers effectively communicate their work through a variety of innovative
solutions, including
author services, video abstracts, and new
solutions for publishers.
«Materials
companies are competing intensely to bring higher modulus and strength
solutions to market by offering new major chemicals, polymers, composites, and stitched fabrics materials to increase the strength - to - weight value proposition,» the
authors of the report write, noting that the value proposition resulting from these incremental - gains «result in significantly more energy captured.»
Author Bio: James Berger is CEO of Netcom 92 — an audio - visual
solutions company from Essex.
Corwin, a SAGE
company, is an independent, family owned organization that partners with
authors and consultants to design, develop, and deliver practical, research - based professional learning
solutions that build capacity and positively impact instructional practice.
We interviewed Alexander Jackl, chief architect Choice
Solutions, Inc., an education data software
company and one of the original
authors of the National Education Data Model.
Interview, Alexander Jackl, chief architect Choice
Solutions, Inc. education data software
company and member of the Common Education Data Standards Working Group, and one of the original
authors of the National Education Data Model, Oct. 17, 2013
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Solutions company and developer of market - leading safety, compliance, and staff training solutions for schools and colleges, announced that districts across the Northwest are adopting the Exceptional Child Online Professional Development System to help
Solutions company and developer of market - leading safety, compliance, and staff training
solutions for schools and colleges, announced that districts across the Northwest are adopting the Exceptional Child Online Professional Development System to help
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If you're considering using Balboa, I suggest that you do a websearch on
Author Solutions first; there are many complaints online about the various imprints of this
company, and I've received many other complaints via Writer Beware.
Sometimes it doesn't bother me at all that iUniverse and
Author Solutions (and now Penguin Books) have one - sided conversations with the world about how great they are, because there are plenty of customers willing to step up and talk about what it's really like to work with
companies that habitually overcharge, under - deliver and make harassing sales calls.
Some who watch the publishing industry closely are confused, wondering why any
company with a decent reputation would willingly take on
Author Solutions.
In the official press release, the
company states: «[
Author Solutions] has approximately 1,600 employees, located primarily in Bloomington, Indiana and Cebu City, the Philippines.»
This ties in nicely with what we've heard from other writers who talk about the «good» and «bad» iUniverse, referring to their feelings about the
company before and after it was purchased by
Author Solutions.
PitchFest is a one - of - a-kind event that puts
Author Solutions authors in the same room as entertainment professionals associated with TV, film and stage
companies, all looking for new material.
«Please know that we are doing everything in our power to find a
solution to this difficult situation, one that best serves our
authors and their work, and that preserves our ability to survive and thrive as a strong and
author - centric publishing
company,» he wrote.»
So here's one more item to add to the litany of iniquities committed by
Author Solutions: its employees leave supposedly anonymous comments on blog posts and lie about their credentials in half - assed attempts to defend the
company's business model.
Maughan's story is interesting because she started working iUniverse just before the
company was sold to
Author Solutions.
The
Author Solutions non-solution really dumbed down big publishing
companies looking for an easy entré into the self - publishing revolution.
Jodie Toohey provides independent
solutions to help
authors get their books finished, ready for publication, and into readers» hands through her
company, Wordsy Woman
Author Division.
Author Solutions, in case you haven't heard by now, is considered by many to be a predatory self - publishing services
company with outrageous fees and vendor lock - in.
«Full - color book publishing is becoming increasingly popular with
authors because it allows them to integrate their own full - color photographs,» said Keith Ogorek, vice president of marketing for
Author Solutions, Inc. — parent
company of AuthorHouse.
Many
companies have started to see the value in offering indie
authors a one - stop
solution.
There has been a lot of drama in the publishing world about
Author Solutions, the
company no one can help themselves from doing business with.
Sometimes when you are self - publishing you might not know who you are truly doing business with and some of these
companies go to great lengths to hide the
Author Solutions connection.
Nook Press has apparently partnered with one of the most notoriously ill - reputed
companies in operation,
Author Solutions.
There are dozens of
companies that offer self - publishing
solutions to
authors, but what makes Streetlib different?
I was curious to hear how he pitched the various
Author Solutions self - publishing service
companies.
The
company said Tuesday (Jan. 5) that it has sold
Author Solutions — the self - publishing author - tools platform that it bought in 2012 — to an unnamed affiliate of US private equity firm Najafi Companies for an undisclose
Author Solutions — the self - publishing
author - tools platform that it bought in 2012 — to an unnamed affiliate of US private equity firm Najafi Companies for an undisclose
author - tools platform that it bought in 2012 — to an unnamed affiliate of US private equity firm Najafi
Companies for an undisclosed sum.
Not long ago,
authors who wanted an easy way to publish their books would turn to a
company that
Author Solutions owned: AuthorHouse, iUniverse, and the like.
The other significant development is that in the last month two titles from
Author Solutions imprints have signed shopping deals with significant production
companies in Hollywood.
Author Solutions has been hosting Book to Screen PitchFest events since 2011, with over 600 books pitched to over 150 different representatives from film, television and digital media
companies.
Author Solutions also partners with other
companies: Archway Publishing (Simon & Schuster), WestBow Press (Thomas Nelson), Balboa Press (Hay House), Inspiring Voices (Guideposts), Abbott Press (Writer's Digest).
Who at Penguin or
Author Solutions thought that harassing me was in the best interest of the
company's customers and stockholders?
And we have no respect for a major publisher that brings in a ripoff
company like
Author Solutions, who are nothing but predators.
That's working with so - called
author services companies, rather like Author Solu
author services
companies, rather like
Author Solu
Author Solutions.