Joe Konrath posted this on his blog yesterday. If you're a newbie writer and are considering taking Penguin up on this offer. Don't. Please don't do it. This is a complete rip-off.
Penguin charging $549.00 to format your ebook and upload it to retailers is insane. They say you can format your own ebook and they'll upload it to retailers for $299.00. This is also a rip off. But that's not even the end of this scam. They want 30% royalties after you've paid them to do something you can learn to do on your own.
Joe has a list of people in his blog entry who you can hire to format, edit and do cover art for you. They are much more reasonable than Penguin is, and they won't take a cut in your royalties.
This is highway robbery in my view. Penguin is playing on the desperation of writers who want so badly to be published, they are willing to pay large amounts of money to have a BIG publisher upload it to retailers for them.
Please don't do it.
3 comments:
Outskirts Press is doing the same thing. The formatting for Kindle or Smashwords isn't difficult to do, if you follow the directions they give.
These "Publishers" and some Gate-keepers are just trying to find new ways to fleece writers, and it's really sad to see.
The whole purpose of self-publishing is to keep your money and remove the middleman.
Thanks for the additional heads up. I keep telling writers the same thing.
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Thanks Leonard. I think it's very tempting for writers, especially when "offers" like these are coming from big pubs, because they think that being associated with the pub's name gives them credence.
Hi Prasetyo :)
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