print-on-demand

Philip M. Parker has written over 200,000 books, and all of them have turned a profit. How does he do it? With the magic of computers.

Most of the titles so far are textbooks generated by scripts searching the Internet for information on the subject, but plans are already in hand for a series of romance novels and volumes of poetry.

Some might consider this cheating.

In an open letter to the industry, Amazon sugar coats…er…clarifies its intentions with regard to its demand that self-published authors use their POD, BookSurge, if they want to be listed on the world’s largest book retailing site. Ah yes, it’s all about the customer experience. It’s all clear to me now.

Click through for the actual letter.