Desperate writers go for desperate means. And some succeed too.
After the vanity press, there is now e-publishing and print-on-demand (POD) publishing. Aren't they interchangable?
The latest star of POD publishing is Amy Fisher whose book "If I knew then..." has been published by iUniverse. Her book was on the NYT Best Selling List for a week. Now the NYT has done a story on this book's success in the light of POD publishing's spreading tentacles.
Here is how the story begins:
"When Amy Fisher finished writing her memoir about shooting her lover's wife, she told her agent not to send the manuscript to New York publishers. Instead, Fisher, who made headlines in 1992 as the 17-year-old ''Long Island Lolita,'' turned to iUniverse in Lincoln, Neb. The company charges authors several hundred dollars to convert a manuscript into a book and make it available for sale online."
The story is worth reading. Read it here (you need log in id and password which comes free).
"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it." ― V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River
3 comments:
Yes, I read this. Very interesting article. There has been so much in both US and UK newspapers lately about alternative ways of getting published, getting noticed. We live in exciting times!
Thanks. This is a new exciting means for those who cannot get into mainstream publishing and yet cannot tolerate to remain unpublished in some form. Vanity, self-indulgence, whatever you may call it, it is going to be here.
New and exciting means--but only when it works for a person without the level of fame/infamy that Amy Fisher had going in...
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