[Publib] vanity presses, etc.

[Paula Laurita]

Here is an interesting piece from the New York Times on self-published best
sellers:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE6DE1230F93AA35754C0A9669
58260

When John Javna and Julie Bennett were discussing how to publish ''50 Simple
Things You Can Do to Save the Earth,'' they considered offering it to a
commercial book company. ''But we wanted it out in a hurry at an affordable
price, so we decided to publish it ourselves,'' Mr. Javna said. The $4.95
book, published under the imprint of Earthworks Press, has been on the New
York Times best-seller list for 22 weeks - 10 weeks as No.

Paula S.W. Laurita, MLIS
Coordinator of Public Services
Athens-Limestone Public Library
Athens, AL 35611

plaurita at athenslimestone.lib.al.us

We have found that a library is not an end in itself, but a means to many
ends.
Charles E. Rush, 1939
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Thanks to Emily, Maureen & Kathy who responded to my vanity presses, etc.
question.

I have always been "suspicious" of those kind of presses.

BYE!

Marla/Acquisitions
Great Falls Public Library
301 2nd Ave N
Great Falls MT  59401-2593
mwilckens at greatfallslibrary.org

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