Publish and be damned - the blog

Colour printing

Colour interior printing will soon be added to the services PABD offer, meaning high quality colour printing will be available for print on demand books - prices to follow.

Best sellers

It may be a cliche, but sex sells - at least that's the case this month at PABD.

Top sellers include Consensual Spanking by Jules Markham and Dogging by Abby (popular in the States, who knew!)

Available soon

We're pleased to announce that three new titles will be available next week, two works of fiction and a travel book about the Czech Republic, as usual these books can be ordered through Amazon.

The Elephant's Nest by Michael Knell
Touching Velvet by Max Boyle
and Double Dealing by Harry Gardiner

Michael will also be republishing his book "Forces of Grey" through PABD, more news to follow regarding the publication date.

Life, love and assimilation

Kia Abdullah, author of the recently published "Life, Love and Assimilation", has been approached by the BBC regarding a radio interview.

Her book tells the story of a young asian woman growing up in London and the stuggles she faces both in and outside the home.

www.pabd.com/2006/books/kabdullah

Toronto office

Exciting news for all here at PABD - we have officially opened our Toronto office. The UK side of things is running along nicely and we look forward to working with new and existing Canadian authors.

Interesting critic site

http://blogcritics.org/

And more podcasts

This sounds like a great idea:

"LibriVox harnesses the power of the many to record audio versions of books in the public domain, and "free" them in podcast form."

Click here for details:
http://librivox.blogsome.com/about-librivox/

Long Tale books

A new book podcast well worth listening to.

Long Tale Books

SERVICE UPDATE - Publishing basic is discontinued

When we introduced Publishing Plus a couple of month back we had no idea just how popular it would become. Getting books into the wholesale trade and the discounted author's price meant that the vast majority of authors chose it as an option. Which is great news.

However, the problem this has created for us is that Publishing Basic numbers have fallen so dramatically that we cannot support it anymore at the prices we're charging. The decision we had to make was between raising prices significantly or just discontinue a service that was rapidly falling out of favour with our authors. We decided on the latter. Apart from significantly cheaper author prices this also brings with it a far more streamlined service from us to you. We can now concentrate on one distribution channel rather than duplicating efforts in North America and Europe.

We apologise if this is causing any problems. If that's the case please send a mail to myself and we'll work with you on a solution.

SF authors podcasting their novels: "podiobooks"

As recently as this time last year, a podcast—a digital audio program that lives on the Internet—would have meant very little to most people. But today there are thousands of websites devoted to the technology; major media outlets have started releasing some of their broadcasts via podcast; and even cult favorite Neil Gaiman has posted the first few chapters of the audio version of his Anansi Boys on his blog. Sigler’s podcasting got him a deal with the publisher Dragon Moon Press after the publisher heard his audio version of EarthCore. And a new site, Podiobooks.com, has launched, with five titles already available for download. Its co-founder, Evo Terra, a podcaster for the online talk show The Dragon Page, notes that, as of this writing, 19 new authors have signed on to release free audio versions of their books through the site. Link

(Via Boing Boing.)

Teleread about e-books

Teleread is publishing an excellent blog about e-books.

PABD becomes SPAN corporate partner

SPAN, the Small Publishers Association of North America, is one of the leading trade bodies for self publishers and independent publishers. It provides a host of benefits to its members to help them market and distribute their books.

PABD has just become a SPAN Corporate Partner, which, among other things, means that if you have published your book with PABD you receive a dramatically discounted rate when you become a SPAN member.

We'll give you the full story on this in our newsletter and on the site, but we think it's great news and those who can should attend the SPAN conference coming up later in the year. We'll give you more information on that shortly.

If you'd like to find out more about SPAN click here

New reviews magazine for self publishers

A new publication is about to appear which specialises in the independent reviewing of self published books.

The title accepts books 6 months prior to publication through to 3 months after. Unfortunately books that have been in print for longer than three months don't qualify.

The magazine is called Readers' Review and will be published three times a year.

The one drawback is that the publication takes a trade discount on all sales made through the review that appears. It takes 30% of the cover price, but also demands 15% of the monies owed to you as 'administration'.

If you'd like more information on how to sumbit your book, contact us at iain@pabd.com

Create postage stamps from your book cover

Our friends over at Zazzle have struck a deal with the US post office that allows you to create your own personalized postage stamps. There's nothing stopping you creating stamps with the cover of your book as the image. We think this is a really cool way to spread the word about your work.

Just save the image from your Personal Selling Page, upload it here and a couple of days later your stamps will be delivered.

Air out my shorts

'Air our my shorts' is a literary podcast from Toronto, produced by Preston Buttons and The Word Whore. As the name suggests, authors send in their short works of fiction and have it read, discussed, and in some cases dissected, on air.

To learn more, and to submit your own work, take a look at their website.