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  2. Electronic publishing - Wikipedia

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    The electronic publishing process follows some aspects of the traditional paper-based publishing process [26] but differs from traditional publishing in two ways: 1) it does not include using an offset printing press to print the final product and 2) it avoids the distribution of a physical product (e.g., paper books, paper magazines, or paper ...

  3. CreateSpace - Wikipedia

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    On-Demand Publishing, LLC, doing business as CreateSpace, was a self-publishing service owned by Amazon. [3] [4] The company was founded in 2000 in South Carolina as BookSurge and was acquired by Amazon in 2005. [5] CreateSpace published books containing any content at all, other than just placeholder text. [6] It neither edited nor verified.

  4. Standard manuscript format - Wikipedia

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    Standard manuscript format is a formatting style for manuscripts of short stories, novels, poems and other literary works submitted by authors to publishers.Even with the advent of desktop publishing, making it possible for anyone to prepare text that appears professionally typeset, many publishers still require authors to submit manuscripts within their respective guidelines.

  5. Self-publishing - Wikipedia

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    In self publishing, authors publish their own book. It is possible for an author to single-handedly carry out the whole process. However increasingly, authors are recognizing that to compete effectively, they need to produce a high quality product, and they are engaging professionals for specific services as needed (such as editors or cover designers). [3]

  6. Kindle Direct Publishing - Wikipedia

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    Kindle Direct Publishing is Amazon.com's e-book publishing platform launched in November 2007, concurrently with the first Amazon Kindle device. Originally called Digital Text Platform, the platform allows authors and publishers to publish their books to the Amazon Kindle Store .

  7. Manuscript (publishing) - Wikipedia

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    Especially in academic publishing, manuscript can also refer to an accepted document, reviewed but not yet in a final format, distributed in advance as a preprint. This use of the term manuscript (from Latin for "hand written") originally dates from a time when only final published documents were professionally typeset and printed, but ...

  8. Amazon Publishing - Wikipedia

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    Amazon Publishing (or simply APub) is Amazon's book publishing unit launched in 2009. It is composed of 15 imprints including AmazonEncore, AmazonCrossing, Montlake Romance, Thomas & Mercer, 47North , and Topple Books.

  9. Vanity press - Wikipedia

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    Hybrid publishing is the source of debate in the publishing industry, with some viewing hybrid publishers as vanity presses in disguise. [7] However, a true hybrid publisher is selective in what they publish and will share the costs (and therefore the risks) with the author, whereas with a vanity press, the author pays the full cost of production and therefore carries all the risk.