Penguin moves into self-publishing

Nefertari

Saw this in the Guardian yesterday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/nov/16/penguin-self-publishing?newsfeed=true

Carol

Interesting.
Perhaps the US arm of the company is the trial, to see if it will work for the whole business.

flyingtart

Joe Konrath blogged about this. Read this if you're feeling tempted.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/11/book-country-fail.html

Mrs Bear

Having read the blog, FT, it does make sense. Why give money away?

pbw

Thanks guys. The Joe Konrath blog is terrific. I'm following him.

I set my marketing plan a few weeks ago and reckon I will stick to it.

Lou Treleaven

Do the books go out with the Penguin logo on them? Maybe that's why they seem to be getting away with charging so much?

flyingtart

[quote=Lou Treleaven]Do the books go out with the Penguin logo on them?[/quote]

Here's the link to Penguin's response to the criticisms levelled at this initiative. As I understand it, the books will have the Book Country logo.

http://paidcontent.org/article/419-self-published-authors-sharply-criticize-penguins-book-country/P0/

pbw

welcome back ft!

I hope your pastry is as crisp and flaky as ever!

flyingtart

Thanks Fiona. Pastry..?

pbw

:)

Jay Mandal

Vanity ... all is vanity.

Stan2

Jay is quoting the Bible!

ana s

Excellent posts. It's fascinating watching the industry positioning and repositioning itself to make the most possible money out of us. The game is changing daily.

Jay Mandal

I Googled it first, Stan. Hadn't realize it was The Bible.