Cheap vanity publisher?
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Know a good one?
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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You can always self-publish using, say, Amazon.com's Kindle Desktop Publishing. And yes, it does physical paperback too.
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@jolly said in Cheap vanity publisher?:
Know a good one?
Careful, some of 'em are snakes. General rule: don't pay money for publishing unless you're self-publishing. Almost never worth it.
What kind of material is it? And what's the goal, to make it accessible? e-Publishing is great for that. Or are you thinking more like a small-batch print run?
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@jolly said in Cheap vanity publisher?:
Know a good one?
Careful, some of 'em are snakes. General rule: don't pay money for publishing unless you're self-publishing. Almost never worth it.
What kind of material is it? And what's the goal, to make it accessible? e-Publishing is great for that. Or are you thinking more like a small-batch print run?
@aqua-letifer said in Cheap vanity publisher?:
@jolly said in Cheap vanity publisher?:
Know a good one?
Careful, some of 'em are snakes. General rule: don't pay money for publishing unless you're self-publishing. Almost never worth it.
What kind of material is it? And what's the goal, to make it accessible? e-Publishing is great for that. Or are you thinking more like a small-batch print run?
Small-batch print.
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@aqua-letifer said in Cheap vanity publisher?:
@jolly said in Cheap vanity publisher?:
Know a good one?
Careful, some of 'em are snakes. General rule: don't pay money for publishing unless you're self-publishing. Almost never worth it.
What kind of material is it? And what's the goal, to make it accessible? e-Publishing is great for that. Or are you thinking more like a small-batch print run?
Small-batch print.
@jolly said in Cheap vanity publisher?:
@aqua-letifer said in Cheap vanity publisher?:
@jolly said in Cheap vanity publisher?:
Know a good one?
Careful, some of 'em are snakes. General rule: don't pay money for publishing unless you're self-publishing. Almost never worth it.
What kind of material is it? And what's the goal, to make it accessible? e-Publishing is great for that. Or are you thinking more like a small-batch print run?
Small-batch print.
I've used these guys before for a book of about 300 pages. It came out well; no difference in quality from them and something you'd buy on Amazon. (This was back in about 2013, but I doubt they've changed that much.)
https://www.blurb.comI've also heard good things about these folks, but full disclosure, I've never used them:
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I used Lulu.
If you use it to make physical copies, you buy those copies yourself then you redistribute them, Lulu is fine for that.
If you let people order copies directly from Lulu and let Lulu takes care of order fulfillment, Lulu is also fine for that.
If you want to use Lulu not only to make physical copies but also to distribute copies to other book sellers on your behalf (e.g., distribute to Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, etc.), then I feel Lulu is on the expensive side in that they require you to choose some premium options to qualify your book into their distribution program.
Most of its IT system is fine but I had problem with how its website deal with Chinese fonts on the cover design; I got around that by rasterizing my entire cover design then uploading it to Lulu. I don't care enough to isolate the problem and determine whether it's a website-only problem or if it extents to its printing operation. Maybe it will be perfectly find for you if you don't use any CJK font.
Good luck.
