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By: What Exactly Is Publishing Anyway? Take II. « Catalyst Book Press

What Exactly Is Publishing Anyway? Take II. « Catalyst Book Press — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:15:02 +0000

[...] of Off the Grid Press. His disgrunted comment was in reference to my blog post of last January, What Exactly Is Publishing, Anyway? Mr. Stern takes issue with my suggestion that Off the Grid Press is no different from a vanity [...]

By: catalystbookpress

catalystbookpress — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:19:56 +0000

Excellent point! I hadn’t thought of a book shepard before–that’s entirely different than “vanity press.”

By: Terena

Terena — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:48:20 +0000

What Off The Grid Press sounds like to me is a book shepard, not a publisher. A publisher is the person or company who assumes the cost of producing the book (editing, design, printing). A book publisher is someone who guides the writer to create a book, but the writer pays the costs. A book shepard isn’t a bad thing (Cypress House for example does excellent work), but there does need to be a distinction between the two. Just my opinion.