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FREE PUBLISHING FOR SELF-PUBLISHING AUTHORS

Date: 30th January 2006

Company - Authors OnLine Ltd,

Contact details - 19 The Cinques, Gamlingay, Sandy Beds SG19 3NU

Tel 01767 652005, theeditor@authorsonline.co.uk

Website – www.authorsonline.co.uk

UK rival to LULU - Authors OnLine offer FREE publishing DEAL

Authors Online, the original digital UK Print On Demand publishing company helping authors to self-publish their work, have launched a new UK and US based service to rival free publishing offered by LULU in the States. The first UK based company to do so. The concept works in exactly the same way in that any author who wants to simply publish and purchase a few books and who has the technical knowledge to produce print-ready files to a supplied template can now do so without having to pay any sort of setup fee. This is extremely useful for authors wanting to submit books to trade-houses, or for an individual, company, organisation or schools requiring copies for private distribution.

If an author then wants to make their book available through retail outlets, an ISBN and distribution services can be purchased separately.

Richard Fitt, The Editor of Authors OnLine says ‘We recognise that a lot people are now far more conversant with the software to prepare their work for printing than was the situation when we started distributed Print On Demand publishing 5 years ago. So if they have the know-how they probably don’t want to pay for us to do something they are quite capable of doing themselves. A lot of individuals and organisations use Word Processors, Graphics packages and Adobe Acrobat to a very sophisticated level nowadays and we are ideally suited to their needs. We also hasten to add that we still offer all our normal services for everybody who either can’t or doesn’t want to do it themselves.’

Authors OnLine doesn’t pretend to have the sophisticated software that LULU uses to help with uploads and tutorials and relies on a simpler system with a certain amount of manual interface, but it believes that the concept is perfectly workable using its own tried and tested publishing methods.

Ninety percent of our time is spent on layouts and formats, so if the manuscripts come to us already prepared the rest is simply loading the books and ordering copies, however the finished result is of course entirely the responsibility of the author, but if the manuscript is prepared with due diligence there is no reason why the books will be anything other than first class.’

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