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Please understand the following defenitions before posting to this list:

• True Self Publisher - The author owns the publishing company, ISBNs, hired the editor, layout designer, cover artist, does marketing.
  
• Subsidy Publisher - The author paid a subsidy press - Authorhouse, Lulu, Xlibris, etc to to publish their book. Usually an upfront fee, then a percentage of each book sold. Author does not own ISBN.
  
• Vanity Publisher - The author paid a large sum up front to have a number of books published, and then receives a few cases of books.
  
• Indie Publisher, Small Press - a non corporate-owned small press that covers all costs of publishing and distribution. Authors are paid a royalty, but rarely an advance. Catalogs can range fro 1 book to hundreds.
  
• Independent Publisher - Any author or publisher who has followed one of the above "paths to publishing." Consider the similarity in nature and spirit to the independent film maker or independent musician.
  
• Traditional (Trad) Publisher - You know who they are. They pay a smaller-than you would think royaly, keep 98% of the cover price, and expect the author to do most of the marketing.
  
• Print On Demand, or POD - Not a publising process. POD is a printing strategy, though subsidy publisher are often erroneously referred to as PODS. Most subsidies use POD, but it is not accurate to say that they are PODS. Please try not to.
  

Please understand that niether AuthorsBookshop.com, nor this forum, considers any one to be any better then another, and welcomes all of the above. We do, however, really appreciate it when the above terms are used appropriately. Thanks!

A Note on Posting Please keep posts and comments within the intended spirit of this group, which is: A professional and constructive discussion of the many aspects of self-publishing specifically and independent publishing in general.