POD Podio

The Truth Behind POD Publishing: Print on Demand, POD, Vanity Press, Subsidy Press or whatever you want to call the pay to be published publishing industry, it's all the same.

This 7 part series gets to the bottom of the multi-billion dollar "pay to be published" publishing industry. Publishing Basics Radio Show Host Ron Pramschufer interviews the presidents of Author House and IUniverse, the top two online "pay to be published" publishers as well as the former VP of Finance, the third largest. Between these three companies they have over 50,000 active titles. Also interviewed is Mark Levine, copyright attorney and author of The Fine Print - What Print-on-Demand and E-Publishing Contracts Really Say. Jan Nathan, the Executive Director of PMA, the Independent Book Publishers Association finishes the series by talking about who is a publisher and who is not. The listener is left to draw their own conclusions. Anyone thinking of publishing a book should go no further without listening to these interviews.

And an 8th selection features Jenna Glatzer, the head of one of the largest writers groups in the country regarding feedback she has received from her members regarding Publish America. There is no gray area in her opinion.

Requires WMP [self publishing podio]

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