Has anyone heard good or bad about them. They are a small publisher but claim not to be a Vanity or self-publisher.
Thanks
http://www.portyonderpress.com/publishing-model.html
Thanks
http://www.portyonderpress.com/publishing-model.html
We most often use the popular and efficient Print on Demand system of printing books (digital printing process) rather than the older and more cumbersome offset printing method / short runs, unless a book project is especially appealing and we're assured it will sell in large numbers
Large publishing companies have so many employees and so much overhead that they have to sell at least 5,000 units of any book to break even. Port Yonder has one full-time staff member and such low overhead that it usually needs to sell only between 200 and 250 units of any title to break even.
Port Yonder Press is small and independent and can publish exactly the kind of books its leadership likes. It is not so big that it is constrained to publish only what the public demands.
Best of all for the author, Port Yonder Press shares with its authors a percentage of the revenues from book sales that is unprecedented in publishing. PYP authors receive roughly triple the rate of profits of authors at larger publishing houses.
Larger publishers, the agent might say, look at the sales histories of your previously published books. If you publish with PYP and your book sells only 300 units, a large publisher might say that this author simply can’t sell enough books, so we’ll pass on him or her.
Such a scenario may very well happen, but if you were to explain in your proposal to such a publisher that Port Yonder Press successfully targeted a niche market and exceeded its sales expectations, most editors will be fine with that. Publishing professionals are supposed to make publishing decisions based on whether or not they think they can succeed with a book, not based on some silly argument like the one outlined above.
I also think their distinction between print- and publish-on-demand is a moot point. As I understand it, POD always refers to a printing technique, it just happens that it's often used with vanity publishers. I admit maybe I'm just not understanding right, but it sounds to me like the publisher here is making an argument about people misunderstanding the terminology in a way that misunderstands the terminology.
(...) I think the it's still true that there isn't a difference between print/publish on demand and that they're the same words for the same thing.
I don't think it means they're a vanity press by any means.
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