De Novo Publishing

BarbJ said:

Why, by putting a picture of your book on the website with the label: best selling instant classic! How can that not sell 5000? And, good Heavens, never put your book in a bookstore. Everyone knows they only sell, um, coffee, and - and T-shirts, and - um - stuffed giraffes! Yeah!

Couldn't resist; this is too funny. You people are great researchers.

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You forgot: fair trade handmade handbags and jewelry.

Oh, and cute little bracelets made up of vintage typewriter keys.

Corporation research is actually pretty easy, registeredagentinfo.com has all the links, and you just enter the name, and presto. DBAs are a bit harder because they're typically at the county, not state, level.

Maybe it's that my parents were into the "know whom you're doing business with" thing, but it's an old habit for me.

LSI is just a printer. Lots of people use 'em. From PublishAmerica on up to Warner.

(Please buy that Warner book. I have a story in it.)

James D. Macdonald said:

LSI is just a printer. Lots of people use 'em. From PublishAmerica on up to Warner.

(Please buy that Warner book. I have a story in it.)

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For a while, you could also search in Ingram and see the publisher as LSI, and that's what I was talking about earlier. Bookstores avoid those titles.

The quality of production was good (as long as the person submitting the book did it right; that wasn't always a given).

Thanks for the heads up on your story -- I have added it to my list to buy.

ETA: I said "for a while" because I'm not absolutely certain that's still the case. I no longer work in a bookstore, though I do volunteer on occasion.

Deirdre said:

Corporation research is actually pretty easy, registeredagentinfo.com has all the links, and you just enter the name, and presto. DBAs are a bit harder because they're typically at the county, not state, level.

Maybe it's that my parents were into the "know whom you're doing business with" thing, but it's an old habit for me.

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That's a good site.

However, that site's link to search in Australia isn't the best one - it links to the ASIC site which only has Australian companies. A better one for Australia is www.abr.business.gov.au - which searches all Australian businesses, not just companies. (So it includes sole traders, authors etc - basically anyone who receives money who isn't an employee)

Mac

Popeyesays said:

Once the run is complete, who owns the plates?

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Scott, plates are created in offset printing and in almost all cases these days are immediately destroyed. Only if you request that they keep them around, will they store them for you.

He claims to be doing short runs, so he's not using offset printing. Digital printing have no plates.

Reusable "plates" haven't really existed since the days of hot type. That's really old technology. A lot of your photo offset the printing surfaces are created for the job and aren't really usable after you've removed them from the press.

Jim, our printer saved our plates for us when we had a sudden special order for 5,000 units from a bank who wanted a particular title for an upcoming seminar. So, while it may be old, it still happens if you catch the printer in time.