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The ABC's of POD: A Beginner's Guide to Fee-Based Print-on-Demand Publishing

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POD stands for "publish on demand" and is an industry that sprang up with the advent of desktop publishing to provide a service for authors seeking to publish their own work, but who could not afford the costs involved with traditional publishing practices. There are now dozens of POD companies offering a variety of services to transform a manuscript into a published book, and a variety of charges for these services. The key distinguishing feature of POD publication is the ability to print one book at a time as ordered by the buyers. This eliminates traditional minimum print runs, book storage costs and associated inventory costs overhead. The ABC's Of POD: A Beginners Guide To Fee-Based Print-on-Demand Publishing by POD expert Dehanna Bailee is an ideal introduction hallmarked with straightforward, easy-to-read chapters featuring "think spot" questions by section. There are more than forty additional exploratory inquires, a glossary, supplementary recommended reading selections, and invaluable lists of "Other tips and Ideas" and "Questions to ask present authors". If you are an aspiring author wanting to self-publish, then give a careful reading to Dehanna Bailee's The ABC's Of POD. Then visit Dehanna Bailee's online "POD Database" at http://dehanna.com.

Anyone starting out to write should buy The ABC of POD, ..first! Clearly written, easy to understand, an informative guide to the road ahead. Highly recommended.

Dehanna Bailee gives hopeful authors the information they need in order to make one of their most important publishing decisions. If you are considering a fee-based POD publishing service, you must read this book.

Patricia Fry, author of "The Right Way to Write, Publish and Sell Your Book." http://www.matiilijapress.com/rightway.html