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Article: Dreams on demand: ; In digital age, authors can publish an opus overnight themselves
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- January 2, 2008
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NEW YORK - Getting a book published isn't the rarefied literary
feat it once was.
New printing technologies are making published authors of legions
of aspiring writers, a population that once toiled for years on
tomes that might not see the light of day.
The vast majority of today's instant authors may sell only a few
dozen copies of their books, but on-demand publishing is letting
thousands realize the ambitions of generations of would-be writers.
On-demand publisher Lulu.com has churned out 236,000 paperbacks
since it opened in 2002, and its volume of new paperbacks has risen
each month this year, hitting 14,745 in November. Retail giant
Amazon.com got into the game this summer, offering ...
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