I received this from Janis Cadle this morning....
Thank you for your email. We would advise that you be careful in
believing everything you read or see, particularly on the Internet.
No day goes by without PublishAmerica authors making news. Every
single day our authors and/or their books appear in newspapers all
around the country. In part this is the result of PublishAmerica now
sending out approximately fifty press releases every day, but more
than that it is the result of an astonishing amount of word of mouth,
originating from our roughly 20,000 happy authors and their readers.
More than any other publishing company, PublishAmerica is a
grassroots publisher. Whatever the scope of our success may be, it is
primarily the success of our authors, talented writers who dwell in
Main Street America and who had been shunned and rejected by
mainstream publishers before they found PublishAmerica. They have
become known in and beyond their local universes, they have made
other people talk about them and their books, and now together they
have made the world listen.
Among them are celebrity authors such as actor Jamie Farr, Agathe Von
Trapp of the singing family who were made famous by the movie The
Sound Of Music, Hedda Nussbaum, or Pulitzer Prize winner William
Coughlin. Others are making celebrity names for themselves, such as
author Benjamin Frazier whose book "Shelly's Diary" is being turned
into a Hollywood movie, or authors Victoria Grossack and Alice
Underwood whose book "Iokaste" is being translated into Greek by a
major publisher in Athens, Greece. Imagine having two versions of
your book on your coffee table: English and Greek! Or Korean, as has
happened to about a dozen of our titles. For more success stories see
http://www.publishamerica.com/upinlights.htm.
PublishAmerica books are sitting on coffee tables, nightstands, or
book shelves in more than a million American households. They are
being ordered by bookstores once every three minutes, twenty-four
hours per day, seven days per week. Our champion bookstore customer
is Barnes and Noble who lately have been increasing their orders at
breakneck speed. Borders and Books A Million are our second and third
largest customers.
PublishAmerica's growth has been unique, and it has caught the
industry's attention. After the world's largest book wholesale
company had managed to acquire the printing rights for virtually all
PublishAmerica's titles, Ingram's chairman, John Ingram, announced,
"I am proud to be associated with such a forward thinking company
that is bringing the reality of traditional book
publishing to many thousands of new authors." Seventeen thousand, to
be more precise, and their number is growing each day.
Roughly a hundred new authors come knocking on our door every day,
hoping to join our legions of published authors. Although we will not
sign a contract to almost eighty percent of them, they all know that
PublishAmerica has dramatically lowered the barrier for new authors
to become published at no cost to them. In 2005, this fact alone
attracted thirty thousand authors to query us, more than any other
publisher in the world.
PublishAmerica underwrites all costs that are involved with
publishing books, down to the last penny. We charge our authors
nothing, ever, earning our income by selling books only, which is the
true hallmark of traditional publishing. Our contracts are industry
standard and have been scrutinized and greenlighted innumerable times
by attorneys all over the fruited plain, which helps explain why we
count hundreds of lawyers among our authors.
Our authors are changing an industry, and as with every change, this
creates an occasional ripple of opposition. No wonder, if you look at
the big picture. Until PublishAmerica arrived on the scene, authors
who were denied access to mainstream publishing had only one
alternative available to them: vanity, or subsidy, publishing where
they were required to fork over substantial dollar amounts in return
for seeing their book in print. It came with not only a much lighter
wallet but with a bad stigma as well: pay to publish is not
considered equal to being paid and published.
With the traditional concept of PublishAmerica now available as an
option to everyone who has written a quality work, to date almost
twenty-five million dollars have not gone into the coffers of vanity
houses, but stayed in the pockets of our authors instead. It is not
very hard to determine whose feathers this continues to ruffle.
Neither is it difficult to predict which publishing concept rides the
wave of the future, theirs or PublishAmerica's. And the vote is
already in: see http://www.publishamerica.com/testimonials/.
As for promoting our books, PublishAmerica sends marketing
information for each new title to RR Bowker's Books In Print, Ingram,
Baker & Taylor, The Brodart Company, Barnes & Noble.com, Amazon.com
and through our printer in the United Kingdom to wholesalers in all
main markets in Europe where our books are made available to more
than 200 million European readers. This marketing information is
distributed to each and every book retailer and library across the
country. Consequently, your book is available through each and every
bookstore in the country, and all those bookstores have all pertinent
information at their fingertips.
In addition, PublishAmerica creates a direct mail letter with book
release marketing information, which is sent to individuals and
businesses across the US, including magazines and newspapers. These
efforts have helped generate thousands of feature articles and/or
reviews about our authors and their books, some of which are posted
on our web site: http://www.publishamerica.com/Press/index.htm. Our
Public Relations department discusses new releases with news media
every day. Also, they send thousands of books, gratis, to legitimate
reviewers at magazines, newspapers, television, and radio shows.
Furthermore, we have launched a showcase website for all of our
authors, called PublishedAuthors.net. It gives individual web pages
to each and every author, highlighting them and their books. The
content of these pages are edited by the author individually and are
password protected. Not only that, but it also gives every author
their own e-mail address, @publishedauthors.net. This innovative new
service, plus all of the above, is free, of course, as you have come
to expect from us.
Such is the story of PublishAmerica. We have, obviously, an excellent
record with the Better Business Bureau (
http://www.bbbonline.org/cks.asp?id=105060194339), with a complaint
rate of only .005 percent, out of more than one million customers
served, with all complaints resolved, but by now this shouldn't
surprise you. We are in the business of serving authors and their
readers, and it will be our privilege to continue to serve you, too.
The contract does allow for us to renegotiate and extend the contract
if both you and PublishAmerica can agree to the terms of extending
the contract. This is in Par 1.
I hope you find this information helpful.
Have a wonderful Christmas!
Warm Regards,
Janis Cadle
Assistant Acquisitions Editor
PublishAmerica
www.publishamerica.com
Thank you for your email. We would advise that you be careful in
believing everything you read or see, particularly on the Internet.
No day goes by without PublishAmerica authors making news. Every
single day our authors and/or their books appear in newspapers all
around the country. In part this is the result of PublishAmerica now
sending out approximately fifty press releases every day, but more
than that it is the result of an astonishing amount of word of mouth,
originating from our roughly 20,000 happy authors and their readers.
More than any other publishing company, PublishAmerica is a
grassroots publisher. Whatever the scope of our success may be, it is
primarily the success of our authors, talented writers who dwell in
Main Street America and who had been shunned and rejected by
mainstream publishers before they found PublishAmerica. They have
become known in and beyond their local universes, they have made
other people talk about them and their books, and now together they
have made the world listen.
Among them are celebrity authors such as actor Jamie Farr, Agathe Von
Trapp of the singing family who were made famous by the movie The
Sound Of Music, Hedda Nussbaum, or Pulitzer Prize winner William
Coughlin. Others are making celebrity names for themselves, such as
author Benjamin Frazier whose book "Shelly's Diary" is being turned
into a Hollywood movie, or authors Victoria Grossack and Alice
Underwood whose book "Iokaste" is being translated into Greek by a
major publisher in Athens, Greece. Imagine having two versions of
your book on your coffee table: English and Greek! Or Korean, as has
happened to about a dozen of our titles. For more success stories see
http://www.publishamerica.com/upinlights.htm.
PublishAmerica books are sitting on coffee tables, nightstands, or
book shelves in more than a million American households. They are
being ordered by bookstores once every three minutes, twenty-four
hours per day, seven days per week. Our champion bookstore customer
is Barnes and Noble who lately have been increasing their orders at
breakneck speed. Borders and Books A Million are our second and third
largest customers.
PublishAmerica's growth has been unique, and it has caught the
industry's attention. After the world's largest book wholesale
company had managed to acquire the printing rights for virtually all
PublishAmerica's titles, Ingram's chairman, John Ingram, announced,
"I am proud to be associated with such a forward thinking company
that is bringing the reality of traditional book
publishing to many thousands of new authors." Seventeen thousand, to
be more precise, and their number is growing each day.
Roughly a hundred new authors come knocking on our door every day,
hoping to join our legions of published authors. Although we will not
sign a contract to almost eighty percent of them, they all know that
PublishAmerica has dramatically lowered the barrier for new authors
to become published at no cost to them. In 2005, this fact alone
attracted thirty thousand authors to query us, more than any other
publisher in the world.
PublishAmerica underwrites all costs that are involved with
publishing books, down to the last penny. We charge our authors
nothing, ever, earning our income by selling books only, which is the
true hallmark of traditional publishing. Our contracts are industry
standard and have been scrutinized and greenlighted innumerable times
by attorneys all over the fruited plain, which helps explain why we
count hundreds of lawyers among our authors.
Our authors are changing an industry, and as with every change, this
creates an occasional ripple of opposition. No wonder, if you look at
the big picture. Until PublishAmerica arrived on the scene, authors
who were denied access to mainstream publishing had only one
alternative available to them: vanity, or subsidy, publishing where
they were required to fork over substantial dollar amounts in return
for seeing their book in print. It came with not only a much lighter
wallet but with a bad stigma as well: pay to publish is not
considered equal to being paid and published.
With the traditional concept of PublishAmerica now available as an
option to everyone who has written a quality work, to date almost
twenty-five million dollars have not gone into the coffers of vanity
houses, but stayed in the pockets of our authors instead. It is not
very hard to determine whose feathers this continues to ruffle.
Neither is it difficult to predict which publishing concept rides the
wave of the future, theirs or PublishAmerica's. And the vote is
already in: see http://www.publishamerica.com/testimonials/.
As for promoting our books, PublishAmerica sends marketing
information for each new title to RR Bowker's Books In Print, Ingram,
Baker & Taylor, The Brodart Company, Barnes & Noble.com, Amazon.com
and through our printer in the United Kingdom to wholesalers in all
main markets in Europe where our books are made available to more
than 200 million European readers. This marketing information is
distributed to each and every book retailer and library across the
country. Consequently, your book is available through each and every
bookstore in the country, and all those bookstores have all pertinent
information at their fingertips.
In addition, PublishAmerica creates a direct mail letter with book
release marketing information, which is sent to individuals and
businesses across the US, including magazines and newspapers. These
efforts have helped generate thousands of feature articles and/or
reviews about our authors and their books, some of which are posted
on our web site: http://www.publishamerica.com/Press/index.htm. Our
Public Relations department discusses new releases with news media
every day. Also, they send thousands of books, gratis, to legitimate
reviewers at magazines, newspapers, television, and radio shows.
Furthermore, we have launched a showcase website for all of our
authors, called PublishedAuthors.net. It gives individual web pages
to each and every author, highlighting them and their books. The
content of these pages are edited by the author individually and are
password protected. Not only that, but it also gives every author
their own e-mail address, @publishedauthors.net. This innovative new
service, plus all of the above, is free, of course, as you have come
to expect from us.
Such is the story of PublishAmerica. We have, obviously, an excellent
record with the Better Business Bureau (
http://www.bbbonline.org/cks.asp?id=105060194339), with a complaint
rate of only .005 percent, out of more than one million customers
served, with all complaints resolved, but by now this shouldn't
surprise you. We are in the business of serving authors and their
readers, and it will be our privilege to continue to serve you, too.
The contract does allow for us to renegotiate and extend the contract
if both you and PublishAmerica can agree to the terms of extending
the contract. This is in Par 1.
I hope you find this information helpful.
Have a wonderful Christmas!
Warm Regards,
Janis Cadle
Assistant Acquisitions Editor
PublishAmerica
www.publishamerica.com
