Comments on: Coming back, possibly slowly http://walt.lishost.org/2009/05/coming-back-possibly-slowly/ The library voice of the radical middle. Fri, 17 May 2013 17:18:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2009/05/coming-back-possibly-slowly/comment-page-1/#comment-37581 walt Mon, 25 May 2009 19:55:04 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=1280#comment-37581 Administrivia isn’t a problem: Lulu and CreateSpace handle all of that. Publicity (and cachet, or at least “being professionally published”) are what N-S and ALA Editions and ITI provide–along with editing and a time delay (and other things, mostly good).

I doubt very much that a library publisher would do a traditional edition of any of those books, since they’ve already been out for a while and have demonstrated lack of demand. The time delay was one reason I didn’t approach them in the first place.

I do plan an essay on the self-publishing experiment. It reminded me that I’m not an entrepreneur or proper publicist by nature. It hasn’t been entirely a failure…but certainly not mostly successful either.

]]> By: Steven Kaye http://walt.lishost.org/2009/05/coming-back-possibly-slowly/comment-page-1/#comment-37580 Steven Kaye Mon, 25 May 2009 19:42:32 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=1280#comment-37580 Worth placing the books with a Neal-Schumann or other specialist publisher, so they can handle all the administrivia (even if you get a smaller share of revenues)?

And now I promise I’ll shut up about this.

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