Unlike a «self - publishing company» (a.k.a. subsidy press), a book packager doesn't have any rights to the book.
In either case, signing with a book packager doesn't seem to be the path to do any of that so author beware.
The clever Zumper packagers didn't know how to rate access to dating apps, so they used percentage of households with an Internet subscription as a substitute.
Not exact matches
But for a long term investment, a contract
packager will be assured that there is hardly a project they could not consider because they
did not have a filling machine capable of
doing the job.
What upcoming trends
do packagers need to know about ecommerce for 2018?
Knowing or suspecting your trade publisher is cheating u, with holding rights the author could use, being useless at marketing and authors can now hire book
packagers to
do the slick things on the page & cover are all reasons NOT to waste time seeking a publisher.
Book
packagers are used to
do a lot of editing on their author's books — because the books need intense editing.
Publishers should be able to protect their investment in a title from being undercut by ebook
packagers, but authors should be protected from publishers annexing rights they
did not negotiate and enforcing unfavourable terms.
But that doesn't make all publishers the enemy, either, I have 30 years in this business as both an Acquisitions, Senior Editor and
packager, with BOTH in TRADISH and INDIES, plus 30 + published books of my own to boot.
The
packager then
does all of the editorial and production work for the publisher (with publisher approval at key junctures of the process), and generally ships the finished books directly to the publisher's warehouse.