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aokva

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Has anyone tried co-publihsing a picture book? Or co-publishing in general?
 

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What do you mean by co-publishing?
 

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Is that what some agents have been calling their publishing (non-agenting) endeavors, helping a client self-publish?
 

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My understanding of co-publishing is it is another name being used by vanity presses who want to avoid that name.

I queried a publisher whose site made no mention of author fees or co-publishing until they said they wanted to publish my novel. Then their line was they were into "co-publishing" and I would front $5000. Needless to say I passed on co-publishing.
 

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I think you're right regdog. Thank you.
 

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I've worked for and with reputable publishers who did co-publishing/ book packaging ventures. So it's not a surefire truth that anyone who uses this business model is a sham publisher.

However, in all instances I was involved with, the co-published book was an extremely specialized non-fiction book, and often primarily intended for the clients of the co-publisher, who was usually a corporation who was publishing the book as part of a larger marketing effort rather than an individual.

I would be very wary of someone offering to co-publish fiction, especially if you didn't approach the publisher with the idea of "Hey, I've got $5,000 to spend and I think a book would be a great marketing tool for my goals."
 

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I am not sure it is a case of a "model" so much as a "word" that is in the process of being hijacked to mean something else entirely.
 
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