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Copyright - is it a bad thing?

Posted by Paul Samael on Tuesday, August 20, 2013, In : Self-publishing 

This article (highlighted on Tom Lichtenberg’s blog) made me wonder whether copyright is a “good thing.”  It discusses some research suggesting that copyright acts as an obstacle to books remaining in print.  This conclusion is based on the somewhat startling finding that more books are available on Amazon from the early part of the 20th century than is the case with books published in the last 20 years or so.  The author of the research suggests that this is because the older books are...

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Interview with publisher and author Frank Burton

Posted by Paul Samael on Friday, June 28, 2013, In : Self-publishing 



Here's an email interview with publisher and author Frank Burton, who's behind non-profit publisher Philistine Press.  I recently reviewed Stephanie Newell's "The Third Person" which is published by Philistine Press.  This got me interested in non-profit publishers as a possible alternative route for authors who can't get taken on by a mainstream publisher but aren't overly keen on self-publishing either.  Frank also maintains an extensive list of non-profit publishers on his own personal web...
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Publishers: no better than fund managers?

Posted by Paul Samael on Thursday, November 1, 2012, In : Random thoughts 
In my last post, I expressed surprise that commercial publishers weren’t interested in a novel which ticked all my usual boxes (thought-provoking and ambitious yet not at the expense of readability or a good story) but was also by an established author and should have been relatively easy to market effectively.  Yet despite all that, it was rejected because it wasn’t felt to be “commercial” enough (which, translated, probably means not enough of a “safe bet”).

But perhaps I am bein...

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Why self-publish?

Posted by Paul Samael on Monday, September 26, 2011, In : Self-publishing 

 

This blog is supposed to be about my attempts to self-publish my novel and so far, I’ve been a little coy about how exactly I plan to tackle this Herculean task (I do have a plan, honest – more on this in later posts).  But I suppose the first question is why self-publish – why not try to get a “proper”, professional publisher to take me on?

Well, my experience of publishers is not good – admittedly, it relates to non-fiction rather than fiction, but in both cases the publishe...


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Paul Samael Welcome to my blog, "Publishing Waste" which will either (a) chronicle my heroic efforts to self-publish my own fiction; or (b) demonstrate beyond a scintilla of doubt the utter futility of (a). And along the way, I will also be doing some reviews of other people's books and occasionally blogging about other stuff.
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