Self Publishing a Book: By the Numbers

David Rogers

There hasn’t always been a wealth of in-depth information available concerning self-published authors or the industry as a whole. But a great survey last year by DigitalBookWorld.com and WritersDigest.com shed some light into the reasons why writers self publish a book and what they get out of it, both from a career and a monetary standpoint.

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New Business Card Printing Tech: MEAT!

David Rogers

In addition to book printing, we also do a lot of business card printing here at Advanced Print & Finishing, and are proud to say that we can produce cards in just about any style you can think of. Need your business cards embossed? Not a problem. Gold foil stamped? We can handle it. Have a Patrick Bateman-style list of sp...

Number of Self-Published Books Up 59 Percent Last Year

How's the self-publishing industry doing these days? Pretty well, it seems safe to say.

Recent numbers taken from ISBN data show that there were 391,000 self-published books released in 2012, representing a jump of 59 percent from the previous year. Perhaps even more impressive, that number is up 422 percent from 2007. The numbers are provided by Bowker, which pr...

Derek Jeter Gets Into the Book Publishing Game

David Rogers

It's not every day that I get to write about baseball here on the Best Book Printing Blog. In fact, I fear I may never get to do so again, and thusly my beloved Atlanta Braves will be forever off limits for my list of blog topics.

Today, though, is a very special day. It's time to tell the st...