Books represent an advance over scrolls beceause they are easier to handle and store.
Meanwhile can you suggest any of these companies who provide these services "agencies...who specialize in production, distribution and publicity services respectively"?
I actually love the self publishing vision.
Have you researched self publishing companies? I have been doing exploration of Print On Demand and I see that Amazon CreateSpace has a very user friendly service that seems to require no initial monetary outlay although they provide publishing services for a fee.That extra provision might make them more competitive in relation to perhaps the better established LightningSource in POD production.
thanks
Toyin
On 11 October 2010 16:37, Chidi Anthony Opara <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:
Toyin,
I am not exaggerating, no need for that. Yes, the traditional book
publishers have for years established frameworks for production,
distribution and publicity, there are however agencies now who
specialize in production, distribution and publicity services
respectively. These services can be outsourced to these specialists to
handle at a fee or better still on commission. With the passage of
time these services would be further enhanced.
Self published authors can generate demands by employing of these
services.
Lastly, Toyin, I do not think that there is need for the invention of
any technology that would make linear reading unnecessary, the natural
tendency to embrace what is trendy and better would see to the final
eclipse of traditional books, this would not be translated to mean
that there would not be a few ultra conservative tendencies that would
prefer traditional books. By the way, before the advent of traditional
book publishing, people read from scrolls, how many people read from
scrolls after the invention of the printing press?
On Oct 11, 1:54 pm, toyin adepoju <toyin.adep...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> You have a point Chidi but are you not exaggerating? The traditional book
> publishers seem to have a powerful publicity and distribution network that
> the self publishing author does not have.
>
> I admire self publishing but I would like us to examine its strengths and
> weaknesses.I am keen on working out how a self publishing author can
> generate demand.
>
> Your point on ebooks is also crucial.
> How widespread is demand for that,in your view? Is is it accurate to assume
> that the emergence of increasingly sophisticted mobile computing devices
> like the IPad and the Kindle,in relation to a generationm growing up on
> comupting,will make ebooks central in publishing? Or even dominant?
>
> Can we compare such anticpated developments with the ongoing strength of
> cinema in spite of the existence of television? Can traditional books really
> be maginalised unless really radical technology emerges that makes linear
> reading unnecessary since e books are still books operating in terms of the
> visual or tactile cues and linear order of the tradiational book?They are
> not a fundamental reodering of the character of information presentation
> represented by the traditional book.
>
> thanks
> Toyin
>
--> On 11 October 2010 09:15, Chidi Anthony Opara <chidi.op...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > You may need to try self publishing, I know that it works. Ken Saro-
> > Wiwa and a few others did it with success. Traditional book publishing
> > format by the way is fast receding into the bin of history. E-book
> > technology is today's format. Good luck.
>
> > Chidi Anthony Opara
>
> >http://www.chidiopararesume.blogspot.com
>
> > On Oct 10, 5:21 pm, "Akurang-Parry, Kwabena" <KAP...@ship.edu> wrote:
> > > Kwasi,
>
> > > Congratulations! One of the policies that you may negotiate is the
> > promotion of publications using local publishing houses! I have a completed
> > a novel, a play, and a collection of poems, but finding it difficult, as
> > strange as it may seem, to publish them overseas: cost involved. I called a
> > couple of Ghanaian presses, but they didn't show any marked interest. I hope
> > to spend next year teaching at Legon and CapeVas and will explore the
> > possibility of using local publishing houses. Thanks.
>
> > > Kwabena.
>
> > > Kwabena Akurang-Parry, Ph. D.
> > > (Professor of African History & World History)
> > > Dept of History
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>
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