Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well before there was a vanity press a new thing I guess there were regular printing presses where you'd have your book printed like all the other books they were not inkjet. But you paid for it yourself. And figured out how to get it distributed. That may have been the hard part. Yes they were called "vanity" press and were not looked highly upon by the publishing people. You'd not find them in the Library of Congress. They'd not win the National Book award. Oprah never heard of them. Ana?s Nin started out this way nobody would published her work so she ran them off herself for years. I picture her with a hand crank but I don't know. Nobody would record Blossom Dearie; So She started her own recording company to alleviate that issue. Sooner or later she caught on. But these people had to be published or recorded by others before the became who they were. Said "artist" on their drivers license I think. Real small. In the bottom right corner. Mark William Rabiner > From: Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 19:36:24 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Nathan's Book List > > I was published (my pictures) many years ago in a couple of rather nicely > selling books of Poetry. > > It was disappointing to see them eventually go on the remainders table. > > The Blurb books look like real books to me. The vanity press books I have > seen, (usually) don't measure up, because the vanity press were eager for > money. > > >