BeckEaston
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Hooray! Well said!
One ex PA two cents worth. eace
Hooray! Well said!
One ex PA two cents worth. eace
-This is ridiculous,...I know this company has no morals but jeez, even some crooks draw the line somewhere!!..-Speaking from experience, nope. Sorry Molly. From what I found out, PA has sold some of our books to booksellers. They will stop selling the product when they run out of inventory. Until then, so sad.
From what I have learned, PA's claim that they are "traditional" is valid. Unfortunately, only authors (not lawyers) understand what the difference is. Also unfortunately for PA there is a web site that regards this issue. www.sfwa.org/beware/printondemand.html Also PA has secured their own lies with the publication of their own web site that directs all new authors to their POD company. That site is www.authorsnet.com. They cannot have it both ways. The lawyers need to understand what it means to authors to be connected by misrepresentation to a POD company. Especially in light of recent Ingram developments that they will no longer stock such books.1. Actually our business model is traditional. We require nor accept any fees from our authors. Our business model is nearly identical to that of most major publishers. And, like most publishers, the vast majority of our sales are from a small percentage of our titles.
If they have 25 full time text editors what does that mean. This is where PA gets lawyers to buy in to their claims. Text editing is NOT the same as promising to "line by line" edit their products. Only a real editor will know the difference. They do not edit spelling, syntax, structure, story content or copy. These are the services that a "traditional" publisher does provide. Therefore refuting both the claim that PA is a traditional publisher and that PA edits their books. The additionally saddened fact is that there are authors who can refute this by direct evidence that not one single item on their manuscript was edited at all whatsoever, text or not.2. Yes, we are selective, and the fact that we have a team of 25 full time text editors working under our roof, at our office, easily refutes her claim.
This sadly enough is a blatant lie. It pains me to hear that they sell this hogwash. They offer web site marketing, family & Friend contact and nothing more. Authors need only go to the aforementioned web site to fully comprehend the absurdity of this claim.3. Every publisher differs from book to book as far as the marketing and promotion that they will provide. Our marketing efforts are in line what is done by most major publishers.
Again, you cannot have it both ways. You cannot advertise that Barnes and Noble consider your product a POD product as well as advertise you're a POD company under a different web site directing new authors and then claim to authorities that you are not.4. We are not at all a “publish on demand” or POD publisher. We would have very little in common with any such publisher, vanity publisher, or subsidy publisher. You will find our marketing practices and business model to be closest to that of the largest major publishing houses.
I urge anyone who believes this to contact the Small Press Department of Barnes & Noble. (The nations leading bookseller) and ask them if they have ever corporately stocked a PA book. I know the answer, I've done it. That testimony refutes any claim that booksellers order books based on shelf placement. The way they get away with this is how they word what they say.5. Contrary to what she states, we never made any such claim, nor any claim even remotely resembling such a statement. She may be confused because she does not understand how bookstore stocking works in the publishing industry. Please allow us to clarify.
Received via online orders, and fulfilled orders through Barnes and Noble. Those orders are NOT in the bookstores. They did not lie with that statement, they just didn’t tell the truth either.But this year alone, we received and fulfilled bookstore orders for more than 3,700 of our titles, with Barnes and Noble being our number one retail customer. That roughly equals the total number of books that we have released in the past 365 days.