Another year, another update to our guide to author services, How To Choose A Self-Publishing Service. And so another email to Author Solutions (ASI) Director, Andrew Philips. If you haven't been following this story, you can catch up on last year's…
The Alliance of Independent Authors welcomes the news that three authors have filed suit against self-publishing service provider Author Solutions (ASI), and its parent company, Penguin Pearson. Law firm Giskan & Solotaroff, on April 26, has filed a class action…
Are self-publishers just vain? Is this the main reason for the stigma against this way of publishing and reaching readers. The vanity publishing question used to be easily answered. On the one hand, you had trade publishers and they paid…
The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) is concerned about the email approach being made by Archway Publishing to a number of our advisors and colleagues. Archway is a new joint venture between publisher Simon & Schuster and Author Solutions…
Is the new business model for publishers to be selling over-priced and under-performing services to writers? That's the question that needs to be asked as Simon & Schuster (S&S) links with Author Solutions (AS) to run their new self-publishing service,…