By Shannon Yarbrough on August 2, 2010
Check out this article by Isia Jasiewicz from The Books Issue of Newsweek (first posted only July 30th, 2010): Boyd Morrison was finishing a Ph.D. in industrial engineering when he wrote his first novel. Five agents rejected it. Nine years later he tried again, and this time he did get an agent—after nearly three years [...]
Posted in E-publishing, Getting Published, Kindle, Sales, Shannon Yarbrough, Success Stories | Tagged amazon kindle, bob young, boyd morrison, E-publishing, isia jasiewicz, j.a. konrath, john edgar wideman, kindle publishing, Lulu, philadelphia fire, the ark, whiskey sour book, who needs a publisher anyway |
By Shannon Yarbrough on January 28, 2009
The New York Times published a very interesting and thorough article yesterday about the growth of the POD industry and how traditional markets are even suffering.
Posted in Opinions, Self-Publishing, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged bob young, iUniverse, jim bendat, lulu.com, new york times, POD, print on demand, self published, self-publishers flourish |
By Shannon Yarbrough on January 18, 2009
A post in the Lulu forum under Customer Service Announcements on the 15th states that Lulu was discontinuing online live chat support as of the 15th. I’ve never had much success with their chat techs anyway as you may remember from experiences I recorded in the POD Diary.
Posted in Opinions, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged author solutions, authorhouse, bob young, iUniverse, lulu book review, lulu gets rid of chat, lulu lay off, lulu.com, lulu.com chat support, wall street, xlibris |
By Shannon Yarbrough on October 2, 2008
All Lulu authors should have received an email today making them aware that Lulu is making changes to their pricing. With UPS fuel surcharges increasing shipping rates, Lulu is not the only company in the book industry getting hit hard by recent economic factors. Here are two emails that I received today, with the differences highlighted in red.
Posted in Announcements, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged bob young, Lulu, lulu book review, lulu price changes, lulu.com |
By Shannon Yarbrough on April 2, 2008
Based on sketchy information posted in the Lulu Forums, it looks like Lulu.com has probably agreed to Amazon’s ultimatum. Due to the fees I’m sure Amazon will be slapping publishers with for having to use its Booksurge printing services, we can probably look forward to increased fees to be passed on to users as well. I chatted with a Lulu representative today through their online chat support hoping to get some info for you, but was pretty much given “blanket” information that anyone would already be privy to.
Posted in Announcements, Opinions, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged abebooks, amazon, amazon.com, angela hoy, B&N, barnes and noble, bob young, book, books, bookstore, bookstores, booksurge, Lulu, lulu.com, POD, print on demand, writer's weekly |
By Shannon Yarbrough on March 31, 2008
Thanks to Veinglory over at PodPeep again for bringing this letter from Amazon to our attention in regards to the recent matter addressed in my previous post about Amazon monopolizing the POD printing industry by requiring all POD publishers to use their BookSurge company for printing or the BUY button of their books would be taken down.
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By Shannon Yarbrough on March 28, 2008
Although I had already planned to blog about it when I got home from work today , and I’m sure most of you have heard about it by now, per Veinglory’s request I’d like to voice a bit of my outrage about Amazon’s recent approach to Publish America to use Booksurge as a printing source or else! Or else what? Or else the BUY buttons would be removed from the PA books on Amazon.com and the books would only be available through third party sellers.
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