Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Self-Publishing options
I'm going to work with Word and Acrobat to draft the book, but after that there seem to be several options for publishing. Naturally I will talk to theater book publishers, but I was reading THE WEEK and came across a little piece about self-publishing.
There's an interesting site called parapublishing.com that has all sorts of advice (mostly aimed at vanity press, I suppose). Even more intriguing is lulu.com, which offers to publish books along the Cafe Press model: you upload the content and they take a royalty for every copy published.
Maybe Cornerstone should consider that for the Methodology handbook. Lulu.com also offers the option of making the book available for download. I think Cafe Press also has this option (in addition to selling t-shirts and mugs). Lulu's Top 100 list is a fascinating snapshot of this end of the business: instant insider tech manuals, religious fiction along the "Left Behind" lines, and all sorts of other stuff.
There's an interesting site called parapublishing.com that has all sorts of advice (mostly aimed at vanity press, I suppose). Even more intriguing is lulu.com, which offers to publish books along the Cafe Press model: you upload the content and they take a royalty for every copy published.
Maybe Cornerstone should consider that for the Methodology handbook. Lulu.com also offers the option of making the book available for download. I think Cafe Press also has this option (in addition to selling t-shirts and mugs). Lulu's Top 100 list is a fascinating snapshot of this end of the business: instant insider tech manuals, religious fiction along the "Left Behind" lines, and all sorts of other stuff.
