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I am interested in finding out which publishers are the most popular. Anyone willing to share that information would be very helpful to me. Has anyone done any self-publishing like with Lulu,etc?

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Comment by Robyn on September 22, 2007 at 6:43am
Penny:

If you use a self-publisher like Lulu, there isn't a margin to deal with bookstores. If you're serious about publishing your book, you should consider becoming your own publishing company and printing it. Printing is very affordable.

Some of the big names are Whitehall, Action Printing in Wisconsin, Hignell Book Printing, Premier Printing and there's one more in Michigan. I've seen copies and samples of their work and when selecting offset printing, you can't compare the quality.

You would ask for a quote. There is also one online that I have never personally dealt with which is RJ Communications. You can get an instant quote. But more to the point, they have a part of their website that lays out a self-publishing plan like no other. They also send out useful information monthly.

Borders will not look at self-published work. They have no problem ordering from independent companies direct when given the standard bookseller discount and will host authors with a great deal of work themselves.

I have also seen samples from some of the self-publishing companies that put together packages and I'm telling you, the covers are brittle, the insides are inadequate and cheaply constructed. The author pays at least eight dollars for each and every book from them but the quality can be not that great. I don't want to offend anybody here. There are exceptions to every rule but what concerns me is there aren't the margins for an independent author to pursue a distributor or big name bookstores.

Thanks,

Robyn

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