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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.