"Author solutions" is a phrase that refers to services or resources that are available to help authors in the process of writing, publishing, promoting, and selling their books. These solutions can include editing, book cover design, marketing assistance, and distribution support.
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Many of the complaints I've gotten
about Author Solutions brands over the years have involved high - pressure sales tactics.
When you deal with a very complex structure
like Author Solutions do you directly contact them, or the publishing off - shoot?
A lawsuit
against Author Solutions has been discontinued after plaintiffs reached a settlement with the company, it has been reported.
You'll find an extensive background
on Author Solutions, as well as the current lawsuit against them.
However, we would like to show you the possibility just so you have some comfort that we are not keeping your intellectual property hostage like
Author Solutions did.
In case it's not clear
what Author Solutions is aiming at with a deal like this, let me quote from the papers filed in the class action.
Three self - published authors are suing the publisher over the business practices of its self - publishing
platform Author Solutions.
The vast majority of the publishing industry
see Author Solutions as a pure money grab operation, taking advantage of authors who don't know any better.
With that said, I don't want any authors working with anything / anyone that is getting things supplied
via Author Solutions.
Read up on more of our acquired authors and see a complete list of
Author Solutions titles that have been picked up by traditional publishers on our acquisitions page.
Around 2007, just when most people were starting to think you couldn't find anything in the publishing world worse than a typical vanity press,
Author Solutions proved us all wrong.
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.
In his new post, Gaughran goes on to target The Bookseller, the UK's leading publishing news source, picturing a page of advertising
from Author Solutions companies in a Friday print edition of The Bookseller.
I can add to this discussion, for example, the fact that I see ads for
Author Solutions companies in my Gmail inbox, particularly the company called Xlibris.
In July, Penguin
acquired Author Solutions for $ 116 million, «the first major acquisition of a large - scale self - publishing company by a traditional book producer,» Paul Sonne and Jeffrey A. Trachetenberg write in their story for the Wall Street Journal: «The acquisition illustrates the newfound acceptance for self - publishers in a book world where they were once viewed largely as interlopers.»