Loose Id guidelines:
http://loose-id.com/prospective.aspx
Erotic romance epress, but the guidelines note that they focus on cross-genre and one of the things they're specifically looking for is "Strong, well-built science fiction, paranormal or urban fantasy worlds that support multiple stories." 20,000 words and up.
Opened July 2004, initially ebook only, but has started experimenting with print. Only a few print titles initially, to keep it at a level they can handle. Lightning Source POD with a distribution deal with Borders/Waldenbooks in the US.
Running through Tri's list:
No advance
Online catalogue for readers. There's also a print catalogue of the print books used for bookstore buyers.
Bookstore placement -- distribution agreement with Borders, and I've seen the books on the shelf in the romance section in my local branch.
Returns -- I believe so.
Large discount -- not sure what it is, but enough to make Borders happy.
National distributor -- not as far as I'm aware, other than the Borders deal (though wholesale through Ingram etc, of course).
POD
Contract -- I had my original contract looked over by an agent friend of a friend (Victoria and Jim would recognise the name) who didn't think there was anything particularly obnoxious. The contract has since been changed, and I've only recently seen the new version. As yet I haven't had it checked for weirdness. There are clauses I am not happy with by Jim's "if the publisher fell under a bus" methodology, but nothing that would make me throw it in the bin without even trying to negotiate the boilerplate.
Royalty percentage - reasonable for ebook (35% gross on direct sales, 50% net on sales via distributors). No escalator. I'll need to dig out the contract to check for print editions.
Has been reviewed in Romance Times multiple times.
This is *small* press. My sales are a few hundred to several hundred copies per title in the first one to two years. But they continue to sell a few copies each month even on backlist and the royalties are paid in a timely fashion. And they take novellas.