Author Solutions – ASI in the News

Jann Robbins, the widow of commercial novelist Harold Robbins, who died in 1997 after writing more than 20 bestsellers, is re-releasing 12 of Robbins's novels through self-publishing company AuthorHouse.

Author Solutions has signed its third deal with a traditional publisher to create a self-publishing division, inking an agreement with Hay House to create Balboa Press. According to Hay House CEO Reid Tracy, the publisher receives “thousands of manuscripts annually, but we can publish only 100 products a year.”

By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
The New York Times

But even those of us who pride ourselves on never showing skepticism arrive at a crossroads sometimes. Should I really sacrifice 20 minutes of my life to hear out this particular rant (about Google, Obama, the Fed) or politely back away from the ranter? Well, you really sound as if you’re on to something, sir!

A Bloomington, Ind.-based independent book publisher today said it has signed an agreement with Amazon.com to distribute its four brands through the popular e-reader Kindle.

London, England (CNN) -- Getting your name into print is a great way to show off your professional know how and, some say, to make yourself stand out from the workplace competition.

In 2001, the Wild Writing Women, a San Francisco Bay Area travel writing group of which I was a member, decided to self-publish a book of stories.

Sisters Debbie Devlin Zook and Mary Devlin Lynch began writing by themselves, merely because they enjoyed doing it. But eventually they decided that their pastime might be something more.

Independent book publisher Author Solutions today announced a distribution deal with social publishing startup Scribd.

Becoming an author is a deeply cherished dream that for thousands of writers dies slowly under the accumulating weight of form rejection letters, unanswered phone calls and the mounting realization that commercial publishing is a tough, money-oriented business.

The astronomical growth of the self-publishing industry has opened the door for many aspiring authors. But marketing your own work takes some serious energy — and innovation.

I think we're stirring the pot—and the pot needs to be stirred,” says Kevin Weiss, CEO of self-publishing giant Author Solutions.

Kevin Weiss, Author Solutions CEO and president, talks with ABC News Job Club contributor Tory Johnson about self-publishing your book.

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Got a romance novel in your desk drawer? Polish it up and get ready to become a Harlequin author.

Harlequin Enterprises has launched a self-publishing division for romance novels.

Author Solutions has teamed up with Harlequin to form Harlequin Horizons, a self-publishing imprint for self-published romance authors.

A match made in book publishing involves the affairs of a Bloomington, Ind. - based business.

Christian publisher Thomas Nelson has started a new division to tap into what it sees as growing demand from authors who want to self-publish.

This is the age of the amafessional, when amateurs are rivaling professionals in opportunity, talent and the ability to produce quality work.

Thomas Nelson and the self-publishing company Author Solutions Inc. earlier in October announced the launch of WestBow Press, a Christian self-publishing imprint.

A leading independent publisher, searching for new revenue as the book industry continues to struggle, is entering the self-publishing business.

Sony opened its electronic bookstore to would-be authors Tuesday in a partnership with two self-publishing companies.

After watching Amazon make huge headway in the e-book self-publishing game with its Digital Text Platform, Sony is finally making a real push into this area with a new Publisher Portal and partnerships with self-publishing companies Smashwords and Author Solutions.

Sony announced a partnership with Smashwords and Author Solutions Tuesday which will allow any author to upload a book to their eBook Store, giving self-published writers unprecedented access to the ubiquitous point-of-sale marketplace that is the e-reader.

Erin Bolger had a vision of what she wanted her maiden manuscript to look like in published form: A country-meets-city cookbook with punchy colours, vivid photographs and an openness about herself at the “heart” of the book.

Dee Blick, founder of the Marketing Gym, had long had an urge to write a book.

Kevin Weiss had witnessed other publishing industries fall victim to the independents.

Can you, a newly minted entrepreneur, get a jump on the competition by self-publishing a book? Yes, you can!

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Ray Goss was told throughout his 40-plus years in radio that he should write a book.

NOT SO LONG AGO, self publishing was a dirty word. For the serious literary artiste, there was only one route to success.

At your age, you've had enough life experiences to fill a book, right?.

She stalked, threatened and pleaded.

Author Solutions Inc., one of the largest self-publishers in the U.S., has acquired smaller Canadian rival Trafford Publishing, further consolidating the sector at a time when the traditional book industry is in turmoil.

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"Still Alice," written by Lisa Genova, is a novel about a 50-year-old Harvard professor's struggle with Alzheimer's disease.

Online self-publisher Author Solutions continued its buying spree today by acquiring rival Trafford Publishing, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Online self-publishing company Author Solutions (we're not calling them "vanity presses" anymore?) has bought rival Trafford Publishing, a Canada-based brick-and-mortar vanity press that has published more than 15,000 authors from 120 companies.

Author Solutions Inc (ASI), the US publisher of print-on-demand books, has acquired the publishing assets of Trafford Publishing.

The biggest name in Canadian self-publishing, the Victoria-based Trafford Publishing, has been purchased by one of the biggest names in American self-publishing, the Indiana-based Author Solutions.

Rupert Murdoch made himself an unlikely hero to media professionals last week by declaring war on what he called Google's infringement of media intellectual property.

"Think of PaaS as a sandbox where you can build an application that, once built, you can also run on the same [Web-based] platform," says Kevin Weiss, CEO of Author Solutions Inc.

The point may soon come when there are more people who want to write books than there are people who want to read them.

Here's a literary parable for the 21st century. Lisa Genova, 38, was a health-care-industry consultant in Belmont, Mass., who wanted to be a novelist, but she couldn't get her book published for love or money.

As rapidly as Inteva has adopted the cloud, Author Solutions moved even quicker.

Author Solutions Inc., one of the country's biggest print-on-demand publishers, has agreed to acquire rival Xlibris, further consolidating the self-publishing niche.

Author Solutions, a publisher of print-on-demand books based in Bloomington, Ind., has acquired Xlibris, a rival self-publisher, expanding its footprint in one of the fastest-growing segments of publishing.

Authors Solutions continues to consolidate its hold on the self-publishing market, acquiring one of its major competitors, Xlibris, for an undisclosed price.

TAMPA - Everybody always told Joe Pelkington he should write a book. Pelkington had a million stories about being a police officer in Tampa for 25 years, from 1960 to 1985, and the police chief in Treasure Island until he retired in 2005.

It's well established that Americans are reading fewer books than they used to.

New York may be the center of the publishing universe, but Indiana is the largest player in the self-publishing industry.

Like many journalists, I've dreamed of writing a book.

One of the country's largest self-publishers is acquiring a rival in an effort to fend off competitors such as Amazon.com Inc. and Lulu.com, underscoring the appeal of independent publishing to many fledgling authors.

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A staggering 764,448 titles were produced in 2009 by self-publishers and micro-niche publishers, according to statistics released this morning by R.R. Bowker.