Heya all! I think triceratops made a very interesting suggestion over in the Capri Publishing thread that is deserving of its own thread.
What? I did my BIC for the day already! (Mostly.)
Depending on what format triceratops had in mind, I can provide some modest but sturdy webmastering talents. But I'm not exactly "in touch" with the market (besides what I read here, that is).triceratops said:Folks, I have been thinking about this issue for the past six months. We DESPERATELY need to define and list our favorite AND profitible small press publishers. I would love to create an entire thread that caters to SF and Fantasy, but maybe we can include them all. We need to list them and examine their operations, as far as can be gleaned from current authors that have books out by these companies. How would we define a legitimate, worthwhile small/independent press?
Small advance ($200 and up?)
Catalog
Returns
Large to deep discount? 45% to 60%
National distributor?
Offset print run or POD?
Fair contract
Good royalty percentage with esculating clause?
I think you get the idea. Because of the internet, just about anybody can now own their own label, and many of them start by publishing their own books. This can be a mine field. I'm seeing literally hundreds of these small outfits that function a few notches above PA, and more are appearing every day! I've fallen into a few ruts myself, as I currently have a trunk novel under submission with some of them.
Is anybody up for this type of list? We can call it the best 50 independent labels, and perhaps have a seperate catagory for e-pubs.
Anybody with me on this?
Tri
What? I did my BIC for the day already! (Mostly.)