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How Do I Get My Book Published?
Getting published has never been easy, and these days it’s the closest thing the non-gambling world has to a crapshoot. If you have something valuable to say, however, there are still a number of ways to get it out there.
Publishing options
Print-on-demand (POD)
POD is not a kind of publishing, it’s a publishing technology. Subsidy presses, self-publishers, and traditional/legacy publishers all use POD technology. It’s used extensively in the subsidy press arena, causing many to confuse the terms.
POD is a printing technology enabling a company or individual to print a copy of a book when it is ordered, as opposed to accumulating expensive inventory.
Many traditional small presses have replaced their traditional printing equipment with POD equipment, or contract their printing out to POD service providers. Many academic publishers, including university presses, use POD services to maintain a large backlist; some even use POD for all their publications..
Subsidy presses
They used to be called vanity presses; they take your money and in return publish your book for you. Anything can and is published (few require editing; some offer it at additional expense), meaning that the books published by subsidy…
