One rarely encounters more acronyms than you will when you start to discuss how to ship your manufactured book from Asia to its distribution facility--be that a publisher’s warehouse, Amazon, or your garage. FOB, CIF, DDU, DDP, AWS, LCL, FCL, POA’s, CBM’s . . . they’ve got a million of them. Literally. That on [...]
Twenty years ago, you wouldn’t have had to struggle with the question of “printing on demand” with a short-run digital printer like Blurb or Lightnening Source--versus printing on a traditional web or sheetfed press--because there really wasn’t any “print on demand” (POD) suppliers. However, as digital printing (think fancy Xerox machine) and small scale [...]
If you hang around with enough publishing types, you will probably end up discussing tools that are used for pre-publication book promotion to bolster sales orders and create an early buzz (hopefully this conversation takes place in a pub, where most publishing types hang around). Two such tools are “BLADs” and “Bound Galleys”. A [...]
Good question! Steelhead are native rainbow trout, which migrate from rivers and streams to the ocean as juvenile fish and return to fresh water as adults to spawn. Depending on how long they spend in the ocean (from one to four years), they can return to their freshwater homes at between four and twenty [...]
