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Lulu Press, Inc., doing business under trade name Lulu, is an online print-on-demand, self-publishing, and distribution platform. By 2014, it had issued approximately two million titles. By 2014, it had issued approximately two million titles.
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.
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.
This excludes vanity press publications because a vanity press has no valid selection criteria. With them money is the only condition for getting published.-- AlainV ( talk ) 19:48, 14 December 2010 (UTC) [ reply ]
The company was founded in 2005 by Eileen Gittins [1] and funded by Canaan Partners and Anthem Venture Partners.Blurb's headquarters are in San Francisco, California.Since its inception, Blurb has delivered more than 14 million books.
Xlibris is a printing and distribution service that produces hardback and paperback books. [2] It also publishes e-books in several formats. The company was acquired by a supported publishing company, Author Solutions, Inc., on January 8, 2009. [4]
CafePress, Inc. was founded as a privately owned company in 1999 by Fred Durham and Maheesh Jain. [2] [3]In July 2008, CafePress acquired the specialist photographic art printing business Imagekind, [4] and in September 2010 further acquired photo-to-canvas company Canvas On Demand to add to their platform of brands.
DiggyPOD, Inc. was started in 1988 by Laura Alexander and three partners, and was called Quickprint, Inc. In 2001 Tim Simpson bought the business from Laura Alexander and changed the name to DiggyPOD.