Xlibris
Xlibris Offers its New Premium UK Publishing Package at Introductory Price
Author: Michael McCain
London, UK, November 17, 2009 – Xlibris, the global leader in the self-publishing industry, has recently announced its entry into the UK publishing market, introducing its popular brand of book publishing and marketing services to the United Kingdom.
To celebrate this event, the self-publishing company is giving British writers and authors another reason to get excited about this expansion to the UK. For a limited time only, Xlibris is offering a £600 price cut off its Premium Publishing Package. This special introductory offer enables British writers and authors to big savings on their publishing investment.
The Premium Package is the flagship of the Xlibris publishing line and boasts an assortment of publishing and marketing services, that will help writers deliver a first-class book to the marketplace and attract their target market. Available for both full-colour and black-and-white publishing, and inclusive of a wealth of customisation options for the discerning author, the Premium service is a steal at only £1,999 (savings of £600). To top it off, the self-publishing giant will also include 12 months bookstore returnability absolutely free as part of this introductory offer. The returnability programme helps overcome the traditional obstacle facing authors when placing their book in bookstores, by granting the title returnable status through Ingram distribution and Gardners wholesale. Usually priced independently at £499, this service is complimentary for a limited time only with the Premium package, and helps round out an already impressive array of publishing and marketing options.
Available until November 25, 2009 this limited time introductory offer is available exclusively for UK authors and celebrates the addition of Xlibris UK to the self-publishing leader’s fold. “Xlibris leads the world in new titles brought to market”, said Kevin Weiss, president and chief executive officer “We believe as our self-publishing business continues to accelerate, we will become the world’s largest publisher of original content”.
Xlibris invites all interested authors to contact them toll-free at 0-800-644-6988 or e-mail publishtoday@xlibrispublishing.co.uk to take advantage of this limited offer, or visit the Xlibris UK website for more information about their vast range of publishing, marketing and editorial services.
About Xlibris UK
Xlibris was founded in 1997 and, as the leading publishing services provider for authors, has helped to publish more than 25,000 titles for almost 20,000 writers worldwide. Now with a presence in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, Xlibris provides authors the world over with direct and personal access to quality publication in hardcover, trade paperback, full-colour, digital and elegant leather-bound formats.
For more information, visit www.xlibrispublishing.co.uk, e-mail publishtoday@xlibrispublishing.co.uk or call at 0-800-644-6988 to receive a free publishing guide.
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Xlibris was founded in 1997 and, as the leading book publishing services provider for authors, has helped to publish more than 25,000 titles for almost 20,000 writers worldwide. Now with a presence in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, Xlibris provides authors the world over with direct and personal access to quality publication in hardcover, trade paperback, full-colour, digital and elegant leather-bound formats.
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Xlibris — do you mean the self publishing and book-in-demand company? They are a US-based company
http://www2.xlibris.com/
They’re a genuine and well respected company and among the largest of the POD self-pub services. They were acquired by AuthorSolutions http://www.authorsolutions.com this year.
You can contact Xlibris at 1-888-795-4274
Between the time you submit and get it to the stands, expect about a year. If they are better prepared, six months
If you can afford to self publish, they are fine. Remember, you pay them, not the other way around.
NO!!!! They’re hugely expensive and their work is subpar – if you pay for extras like editing, marketing, and cover design. There packages can run as high as $12,000 and, yes, I’ve heard from at least one person who paid it. I’ve also talked to people who ordered their so-called marketing package and the only thing that entails is setting up a MySpace and Facebook page for your book. You can do this yourself, free of charge, and it’s not REAL marketing! (I have a marketing degree, so I know).
Your best bet is to try to get it commercially published. Hire that writing coach and make sure your manuscript is completely polished. Send it off to literary agents that represnet non-fiction. You’ll get turned down more times than you can imagine but make sure you send it to as many agents as are available (that rep non-fiction). If all else fails with agents, then approach publishers with your manuscript. They’ll be small to mid-sized publishers and make sure they publish non-fiction. Most publishers dont accept un-agented manuscripts, but some do. If you fail to find a publisher or agent then that’s a sign that their might be a flaw with your manuscript that you don’t know about. But, there’s nothing wrong with self-publishing if you have the money and that’s what you want to do. Remember that besides paying for a writing coach, you have to pay for a freelance editor and the good ones don’t come cheap. You have to pay for a freelance illustrator to design your cover. You also have to pay for marketing, publicity, and promotion and unless you’re skilled in these areas, youll have to hire a professional to do it for you (these vanity presses don’t give you the type of professional work youll need if you want to be taken seriously).
I know of one author who self-published her first book (a non-fiction dating book). She said she hired a publicity agent to help score interviews and reviews for the book: cost $5,000. Professional the author worked in the marketing field, so she didn’t need to hire a marketer and as was able to use her skills and networks to help with that. She hired a freelance cover designer and a professional editor. She said the total cost was around $10,000 – this didn’t include the cost to print the books.
She lucked out, though. Her publicity agent was able to score a high profile interview for the author. She appeared on a national program that’s similar to Good Morning America to talk about her book. As a result of that interview she started selling lots of books. Her sales caught the eye of a major publisher who bought the publishing rights to the book and the author now has several other non-fiction books out that were published by major publishers. So, self-publishing can work out if your book is good, well-written, and you sell a lot, but it doesn’t come cheap.
Good luck.
Try doing this. Type in the publisher’s name and see what comes up. See what other people are saying about. The more gripes you see the more you should want to stay away from it.
ADDING: If you want to self-publish then try Lulu.com. It’s cheap to print your books and you can set your own price.
Another thing I’ve heard from former Xlibris authors is that they price the books extremely high so that no one in their right mind would want to pay $20 for a vanity published book by an unknown author. Sad thing is that they charge this much no matter how big your book is, so you can easily pay $20 for an 80 page book as you can for a 300 page one. Quality of your writing doesn’t factor in, either, as long as you can pay.
If a publisher is that desperate to find a client, you can bet they are not a traditional publisher.
Real publishers do not have to beg for manuscripts since agents provide them with enough good ones to choose from.
Vanity presses make their money selling printing services to naive authors (not by selling books to readers). It annoys writing groups to find out a self publisher has copied their member list specifically to spam them with promises and half-thruths.
I think Xlibris is for the most part a vanity publisher offering packages that will cost you a fair bit. I understand that even though they offer editing services, books really need to be submitted in a highly edited state. Although I am aware of a few people who have done well with Xlibris, I have read reports of many others who never even came close to recovering their package price. Every report I’ve read is they are good about communicating with their customers (you, the writer)
Lulu offers a variety of services and is one of the few options to submit a print-ready file for printing and distribution. I have done this. While I like that lulu offers print ready options, and the ability to produce any number of books you wish, I feel their printing costs are such that it is very difficult to offer a book for sale with a reasonable discount -thus hard to make any profit. Their online information is good, but disorganized. They offer online chat support, but no phone support. You are mostly on your own – but that’s the nature of being your own publisher in my opinion.
Amazon owns two companies for the self publishers. One only accepts print ready submissions. The other will accept print ready submissions or you can sign up for one of their package options.
I have read many stories of people who ran into issues and had a hard time communicating with one of these companies. Unless your book is very bad indeed, it will likely be carried on Amazon, but it is very unlikely anyone else will carry it.
Most of the other book companies have their books printed through LightingSource which is the POD division of Ingram books and means your book can potentially be marketed through their distribution net work. This won’t happen unless it is of quality and even then many retailers are hesitant to pick up a self published book.
Privately, would mean you have the ability to print a book yourself – truly self publishing, but probably not a very realistic option. In addition to lulu, there are many printers who will just print books at an affordable price, but you are then completely responsible for all distribution. (In addition to printing, layout and conversion to a properly formatted print ready text file and cover file.)
I’ve read quite a bit about self publishing and even self published one book myself. Regardless of who is chosen to print the book, I’ve noticed that most self published authors do not do well, especially those choosing the vanity press packages. I notice that those who are successful almost always do the following two things:
1. They write a good book that has a demand in the marketplace.
2. They thoroughly investigate all aspects of editing, layout, printing and marketing before they even consider having their book produced. They have a business plan that addresses the costs and challenges faced at each step.
HERE IS A RUNDOWN ON SOME Xlibirs REVIEWS:
“Better than most other self publishing firms but they do have problems”:
http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2006/02/victoria-strauss-amazon-goes-into.html
“Not great, not terrible”
http://www.smallpressexchange.com/directory/publishing_and_printing/print_on_demand/xlibris_print_on_demand_self_publishing_services/details/
“Stay away!”
http://www.ripoffreport.com/Book-Publishers/Xlibris-com/xlibris-com-is-a-scam-dont-wa-e6xm2.htm
“Isn’t a scam, but more expensive than other PODs”
http://www.writers.net/forum/read/10/34046/34022Vf?PHPSESSID=b2a14ace531b429c8f7841927336b675#34046
Yes, it’s too good to be true.
They can get your book done by Christmas because they want your money as soon as possible.
The claim that they can get your books on the shelves of Barnes & Noble is a scam. You generally pay a lot of extra money to have one or two copies of your book in one Barnes & Noble store for only a very short space of time, and only if Barnes & Noble agree to it. There is no guarantee at all that your book will get into B&N, and if it does, it would only be a couple of copies in one store for a few days – even if the copies were sold, which is highly unlikely, you wouldn’t make back the extra money you paid.
If you want your book to sell, don’t self publish. Work hard at making your book good enough to publish through a legitimate publisher (ie, one that pays YOU, in the form of a percentage of book sales) instead.
I have used xlibris, it is a little difficult to navigate the first time you try it, but they are very helpful.
Just a warning though, this is an original piece of fiction right because they will not publish sequels, adaptions, fanfiction…ect
Bastards 😀
It’s just another vanity press, in which you pay to publish your work. They cannot place books in bookstores (where most sales still take place), get reviewer copies seen by critics, or do any marketing at all.
Most self-published authors of novels end up spending between $500 and $1500 and selling a total of 45 to 65 copies, including those they buy themselves. It’s a losing proposition if your dream is to have people read and enjoy your work.
If, however, the dream is to hold your work in your hands, or give a copy to the grandmother who inspired you to write, it’ll do–but a plain old printing company can usually do it cheaper.
Has anyone ever used outskirts press or xlibris?
I write Gothic Fiction and I was just wondering if theses services are worth the money or not.
Has anyone heard of or worked with Xlibris Corporation?
They are a publishing company based out of Philadelphia, PA, and I am wondering if anyone has heard anything about them or had any experiences, whether positive or negative. I am trying to decide if they are worth publishing a book with. Thank you.
Has anyone had success with self-publishing company Xlibris?
I was considering self-publishing with Xlibris. They contacted me numerous times for over a year now. I’ve told them I may be interested in the future, so they call from time to time. I’m wondering if there are writers that have had a good experience with the company.
What country is Xlibris Corporation based in?
I have doubts about the company I am dealing with and can get no answers from them. As this company is privately held, no FCC information can be found. Can anyone help?
what’s the difference between XLibris and Lulu?
I would like to self publish a novel. Does anyone have a suggestion between publishing with Xlibris, Lulu or Amazon.com or privately?
Is Xlibris a good publishing company?
I have finished my manuscript and am ready to publish, but there are so many scams outthere. I want my work safe and secure and done right. They are ready for my book, and I think they are legitimate, but I want to be sure. Thanks.
Has anybody ever heard of Xlibris publishing?
Has anybody ever heard of Xlibris publishing? They want to help me publish my book, but I’m a little worried it’s a scam
Should I publish my poetry with Xlibris?
I would LOVE to publish a book of poetry relatively soon with Xlibris. 1) Does anyone have any noteworthy experiences with the company, either good or bad? 2) Does anyone know how long it would take to actually get my book on the market?
I was offered by Xlibris to publish my book but it is in a self publish way should i go with them?h?
I am writing a non fiction and would have to get a writing coach and it will be about a 1000 dollars or more. So should I go with them or someone else?
Is self publishing xlibris good to do?
IT sounds good. They call and tell me they can get my book done by christmas and oin the shelfs of barnes and noble and online retail stores. But is this all good to be true?