Reading more and more on the POD thread I'm getting the impression that people associate POD to self publish.
POD is the technique, self publishing can employee POD and/or a publisher can employee POD technologies.
Recently I was rejected for a review because my publisher was POD. After looking over this forum I think they thought I was self published.
There are publishers out there that employee POD technologies AND offer contracts! As I have never worked with the a 'traditional publisher' I can't attest to the difference.
I know an author who had a book published with Viking said to me (and I was suprised she shared this, so I haven't included her name: " . . . was a tedious and long process. . . . From the final draft to the first publishing was almost three years. There was a ton of hurry up and wait - I found it infuriating - and kind of rude. . . . I didn't like the way they believed we "lesser-known" authors should be grateful just for the chance to be published by them."
I also have a friend whose mother is good friend with the mother of a well known writer who has published several books and had a movie deal. Even this woman complained how publishers are passing more of the effort onto the writer!
In summary, I'm not so sure the smaller publishers are really that much different!
POD is the technique, self publishing can employee POD and/or a publisher can employee POD technologies.
Recently I was rejected for a review because my publisher was POD. After looking over this forum I think they thought I was self published.
There are publishers out there that employee POD technologies AND offer contracts! As I have never worked with the a 'traditional publisher' I can't attest to the difference.
I know an author who had a book published with Viking said to me (and I was suprised she shared this, so I haven't included her name: " . . . was a tedious and long process. . . . From the final draft to the first publishing was almost three years. There was a ton of hurry up and wait - I found it infuriating - and kind of rude. . . . I didn't like the way they believed we "lesser-known" authors should be grateful just for the chance to be published by them."
I also have a friend whose mother is good friend with the mother of a well known writer who has published several books and had a movie deal. Even this woman complained how publishers are passing more of the effort onto the writer!
In summary, I'm not so sure the smaller publishers are really that much different!