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  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  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. Amazon Publishing - Wikipedia

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    During the 1999 Christmas season, Amazon leased the rights to a defunct imprint called Weathervane. This was Amazon's first attempt at publishing. [27] The titles included Christmas recipe books and others without much market appeal, they were the "creatures from the black lagoon of the remainder table" according to a former employee James Marcus. [27]

  6. Wikipedia:List of companies engaged in the self-publishing ...

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    If you know of a self-publishing company that is not on the list, please add it. Conversely, if you know that a company on this list is not primarily a self-publishing company, please remove it. Publishers do not have to be notable to be listed here; those that are notable should also be included in the article List of self-publishing companies .

  7. List of academic publishers by preprint policy - Wikipedia

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    Royal Society Publishing: Unrestricted Unrestricted Unrestricted [73] SAGE Publishing: Unrestricted, except: The following journals opt out of SAGE's publication policies: Acta Radiologica does not accept preprint submissions. [74] Political Insight 'may accept' preprint submissions. [75]

  8. Kindle Direct Publishing - Wikipedia

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    Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) was in open beta testing in late 2007. [1] In a December 5, 2009 interview with The New York Times, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed that Amazon keeps 65% of the revenue from all e-book sales for the Kindle. [3] The remaining 35% is split between the author and publisher.

  9. 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]