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The following is a list of companies that provide assistance in self-publishing books or engage in vanity publishing.This list is provided to help editors evaluate whether sources published by these companies are reliable for purposes of including content in Wikipedia.
Self-published books still have to combat prejudice due to the lack of gatekeepers to ensure quality. No physical presence. Traditional publishers distribute their books to high street bookstores on a sale-or-return basis, which is unaffordable for a self-published author, and libraries routinely order from the publisher's catalogues. No advance.
Self-publishing is the publication of media (e.g. books, music, art) by its author at their own cost, without the involvement of a publisher. However, the author may engage professionals or companies to assist with various aspects of publication, distribution or marketing.
An article by Mokoto Rich in the New York Times recently covered the booming industry of self-publishing books. As traditional publishing houses scramble for an increasingly smaller reading public ...
Companies that provide assistance to authors who self-publish their own books or other media. Note that hybrid publishers and vanity presses do not "assist in self-publishing". They are publishers who take a contribution from the author in order to publish the author's work under their own imprint.
Self-published books may be printed by a vanity press or a publisher that prints books by only that author. If the author works for a company, and the publisher is the employer, and the author's job is to produce the work (e.g., sales materials or a corporate website), then the author and publisher are the same.
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