Self-publishing in general is turning the traditional publishing industry on its head, but print-on-demand services, or POD, are making every writer's dream of becoming a published author ...

He is currently celebrating the third printing of Guitar for Absolute Beginners, and hopes to have a dozen titles out by the middle of 2015. He adds that another huge advantage of self-publishing ...

But ’90s self-publishing certainly proved remunerative for companies printing the books, enough so that by the early 2000s Borders, Random House, and other major players had purchased stakes in ...

Lulu offers self-publishing services for printed books, offering print-on-demand and one-time printing options. You can order as little as a single book or as many as thousands of copies at a time.

Digital and print-on-demand technology has made self-publishing much easier. But for every self-published work that gains traction, the overwhelming majority of books don't.

Self-Publishing: No Longer Just A ... They had to pay to see their book in print. But with the advent of e-books, self-publishing has exploded, and a handful of writers have had huge best-sellers.

It endured a long period of indignity, branded as vanity publishing—that is, self-publishing as a last resort for works not viable in the marketplace. Writing, printing, and disseminating your ...

Printing your own book used to be seen as a mark of failure. But now many independent authors, both well-known and relatively unknown, say they're making good money without a publishing house.

In April, megabestselling author James Patterson made headlines when he bought full-page ads in the <i>New York Times </i>Sunday Book Review and <i>Kirkus Reviews</i> and the cover of <i>Publishers ...