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Who said that writing should feed the writer? On the in fact, only a few writers in the world (the most famous) can afford such a luxury. Basically, writing is this is a hobby. Even the illustrious Charles Dickens for a long time earned his living by lecturing. Twenty written by him books brought him as much money as lectures, but solid writing fees fell on him already in advanced age.
Modern writers, poets, and can not do anything to count. The Internet has created a situation where to spread your work and even become to some extent popular (at least in among like-minded people) it has become quite simple, but making money on this is almost impossible. Moreover, in our time and publish (print on paper) your work is not special labor.
This was made possible by improving the printing industry. case, namely – the appearance of printing books on demand – PRINT-ON-DEMAND. That is, today you no longer need to print immediately million copies, create a complex structure for their storage, transportation and sale. It’s enough to have a modern printing house, supporting PRINT-ON-DEMAND technology. And all the books, intended for publication, already laid out and decorated, are laid out on special sites selling literature. And each anyone can just order a book. After which it is printed in single copy (of course, you can order as much as you like) and sent to the buyer.
The future in book publishing is precisely with the PRINT-ON-DEMAND technology. TO For example, now the price of a book printed using this technology is already approaching the cost of traditionally published literature. True, still tall, which scares the buyer. There is another lack of this form of publication – according to PRINT-ON-DEMAND technology it is still impossible to produce colorful, well-illustrated books.
But in the printing industry, everything is developing very swiftly, almost the same as in computer or mobile. Therefore, modern writers do not have time to look around, like the lion’s share literature will be printed only using PRINT-ON-DEMAND technology. It is possible that in the middle of our century, exclusively everything books will be printed only on order.
Already today, every modern writer or poet (not even recognized), can prepare his book for publication in such printing houses (working on PRINT-ON-DEMAND technology) and even put your works for sale free of charge. This allows buy your books at least for yourself and your friends, especially since such publishers themselves sell them at a discount. But… now other people can buy your books, and you are for it get a fee …
Whoever is interested, can go to Russian publishing house – napisanoperom.ru, or in Canadian – lulu.com/spotlight/altaspera (publishing house of our compatriot Boris Krieger). From experience, let’s say that Boris Krieger draw up books are cheaper (at least you don’t have to pay to get the code ISBN), but in general, books come out more expensive both in publication and in shipment.
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