This is a digital and POD publisher. Very new, specializing in womens fiction. I literally stumpled across their website while looking for something else. Anyone know anything about them?
After telling the world about Bookouture for the first time via our launch press release, we’ve been delighted by the response....we’ve seen a flood of submissions from authors and agents...
http://www.bookouture.com/2012/10/04/bookouture-launch-coverage/
Does bookouture pay its authors an advance?
No, we don’t. Our high digital royalty rates and speed to market offset the lack of advance.
We offer bespoke digital publishing – so our publishing and marketing is tailored to your author brand – not the other way around. Put simply, our aim is to add value to the publishing process in terms of connecting authors to reader.
Do I need to have been published before? Nope! Call us old fashioned, but we think publishers should play a role in discovering new talent. (What do they think publishers have been doing all these years?)
Send us your story. We promise to read and reply to every manuscript we receive. Because your hard work deserves our time and attention.
If you’ve got a finished manuscript, we’d love to see it all. If you don’t, we will need at least 3 chapters. (They're asking for unfinished manuscripts?)
No agent required No long complicated lists of what we do and don’t want No word limits No fitting your writing to a particular series or imprint (I have to wonder how much experience of publishing the founders of Bookouture have if they felt the need to add that last sentence.)
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Maybe because the guy who started it is the "former Head of Marketing at Harlequin UK"?From the Bookouture blog:
I'm not sure why agents would be so enthusiastic about the company, which specializes in e-books with print (POD) copies if the author wants them. .
Oliver Rhodes
bookouture, founder and publisher
Harlequin Mills & Boon has one of the sharpest digital teams around, and Rhodes was just one of the people that has made it happen. He worked at HMB for 10 years, starting as an assistant product manager, and later working on the MIRA list in 2005, where he was part of the team that rapidly grew sales and profitability. He became marketing controller in 2008, introducing Mills & Boon’s social media strategy, and played a key role in the company’s centenary campaign. He is now taking those skills to bookouture, a digital publishing company that will publish commercial women’s fiction.
Long-term aim: “Creating a successful business model with bookoutre that adds value to authors. To continue to learn, innovate and push boundaries.”
I assume that Jenauthor who posted above is the the author or Coming Home for Christmas -- which has just entered Amazon UK's Top 50 -- just days after hitting the Top 100. That's what I call fast rising, and if that's a result of their marketing (and choice of book) -- well, what's not to like?
I am seriously considering them for one of my books.
I contacted Oliver yesterday and he got back to me within the hour, and answered a question I had immediately. I sent him the ms and he promised a response in two weeks. Let's see...
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