Traditional Hybrid Self- Vanity Small Press Publishing Publishing Publishing Press

Pros Pros Pros Pros Pros •Every writer’s dream •More likely to get • You own the rights to your • Keep control •You don’t have to do the •Publisher does all the picked up by a small work • You decide on cover work work at no cost to you press • Keep control design •There is an experienced • You decide on cover • You decide on the interior •Potential marketing •Potential advanced team to make your work payment design look and feel of your book look professional team/budget (though not • You decide on the interior • You set the price of your always) •Team works closely with look and feel of your book •Brand recognition •More likely to be placed you book. • You determine your target (Abott Press) in retail stores •More likely to be a • You set the price of your audience and •Publisher may produce a •Satisfaction of being higher priority in terms book • where your book will be hardback copy of your vetted by a professional of pushing the success of • You determine your target sold book publishing company. your novel audience and where your • You control the formats book will be sold •Professional connections available for your novel • You control the formats (ex. Audio, print, ebook) •reviewers, available for your novel • Transparency of sales – you Cons •authors to write blurbs Cons (ex. Audio, print, ebook) can see your sales data at for you • You won’t have to pay an any time •You give up all control •Minimal marketing •potential foreign agent or publishing house a • Reliable monthly payments and most rights to your budget, author takes on percentage of your earnings directly to you work publisher connections the cost and most of the • Transparency of sales – you • Speed – no waiting on 3rd and/or TV & movie labor of marketing •There are upfront fees rights representation can see your sales data at parties. You set the pace. •More likely to go out of any time •Locked into a contract •Paid an Advance • No deadlines with them business • Acorn provided ISBN • There is a huge community •(Won’t make royalties •More pressure on the • Reliable monthly payments •Publisher sets the price of until after advance is author to success for the directly to you your book (usually at too paid out.) wellbeing of the • Speed – no waiting on 3rd high a cost to sell) business parties. You set the pace. Cons •A stigma attached to •Smaller profit margin • No deadlines • There’s a lot to learn and a vanity press that your Cons • There is a team of lot of work work wasn’t vetted and •Less likely to make it professionals to guide you isn’t good enough •Little to no control in big time but earn less • There are a lot of upfront and help promote your fees cover design/look and per book work feel of book •Payments are even less • There’s no experienced • You’re joining a team of team to bounce ideas off of •No control over the reliable award-winning authors who pricing of the book will also support you. • There’s no brand •Giving up the rights to recognition - your book •Depending on the your book is always a • We are a boutique label so you will get the intimacy won’t have a logo to give it publisher payments are gamble. With small a professional look and quarterly, bi-annually, press you’re likely and one-on-one support of our team feel and sometimes yearly putting a threshold on • There’s no publishing (Not monthly). your success company behind your book •Many misconceptions -- • You’re a lot more likely to Just because you are Cons make a mistake in the traditionally published •There’s a lot to learn and presentation of your book doesn’t guarantee you’ll a lot of work if you don’t have a professional team giving be placed in book stores •There will be upfront fees or make sales you honest feedback • $125 fee for ISBN