Is Online POD Publishing a Good Way to Self-Publish?
We run into many new “publishers” these days. With the proliferation of digital printing technologies and Print-On-Demand (POD), many new companies have sprouted up (anyone remember SPROUT?) These companies offer many different combinations of book creation services that can confound and trap an eager writer. Some of these companies offer to publish books for writers by producing the book cover and layout, digitally printing the books, and filling orders; others offer production and POD fulfillment services without publishing the book; still, others offer just the POD fulfillment without the production or the publishing; and others offer just short-run digital printing without POD fulfillment production services or the publishing. There is a lot of confusion and misnomenclature out there! Furthermore, it’s a tangled jungle of new and different types of publishers, producers, printers, and, most importantly, predators. Let’s distinguish between the various entities… Who Is a Publisher
