Theos-Talk Archives (March 2001 Message tt00030)

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Good information.

Still, anytime one deals with "any" publisher, "spiritual" or otherwise, 
there could be a lot of complications and/or confusion -- especially when 
the publisher is capable of being ruthless and financially strong and 
capable of spending a lot of money in prolonged litigating and has a 
culture of and track record of litigations in the past -- unless all the 
i's are dotted and t's are crossed in the contracts with the help of expert 
attorneys with contract and copyright expertise.

Such professional help is expensive, but unavoidable and can provide 
sufficient grounds for contingent fee litigation should the rights of the 
author are violated. Usually the true colors of the publishers come out 
under contentious financial issues. Taking all these factors into 
consideration, I think, any day, publishing on the Internet would be a very 
attractive alternative any day.

R..

At 12:00 AM 3/1/01 -0500, Theosophical News/Events Announcements digest wrote:
> Subject: Re: Publishing in Internet Age - ePublication/eNews/eDiscussion
> From: Bart Lidofsky <bartl@sprynet.com>
> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:00:13 -0500
> "Barnes & Noble has a vanity press where it only costs $99 to 
> publish a
> book; it's put in the Ingram catalogue and made available via B&N
> online. The basic idea is that it is up to the author to publicize the
> book. "
>
> Bart Lidofsky