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New! PUBLIC SCHOOL DATABASE: Over 25,000 *clean* addresses on CD for only $149! Includes related data - fax numbers, school size, grades, emails, and websites. SCHOOL MARKETING from TheScienceSpiders/RanchWorks: Jumpstart your school sales with our inexpensive mailing lists, faxes, and school home pages. Now you can try your mailings and school communications without the high minimum orders required by mail-list companies. We start with lists as low as $10! And all our school addresses have been used recently for our own school mailings so they are cleaner than lists the big companies provide. Even a small school mailing can provide valuable feedback about your marketing approach. And we let you narrow down your mail list without extra fees! Choose your own addressee, size of school, grades, and geographical location! Check our website at School Sales & Services or email
drkain@sciencespiders.com for detailed requests...Kathe Kain
AUTOGRAPHED BY AUTHOR wants to send buyers to you…if you sell your own
books, autographed, from your own web site.
Readers, collectors, and gift buyers love to shop at AutographedByAuthor.com
because we're the largest gathering of autographing authors on the internet.
We use internet marketing techniques to attract buyers, then forward them to
web sites of authors they'll enjoy...like you!
John Kremer, author of "1001 Ways to Market Your Books," placed us sixth on
his list of "Top 101 book marketing sites." (If it wasn't alphabetical, we
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Yahoo! web sites placed us on their first page for Autographed Books, ahead
of 33,700 other sites (August, 2000)
Join John Kremer, Shel Horowitz (Grassroots Marketing, The Penny-Pinching
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Rick Kamen, organizer of Autographed By Author.
MEDIA123 is a 22,200+ database of media names/addresses packaged with an
easy-to-use sort/extract and print application. Use Media123 to target
specific newspapers, magazines, and broadcasts for publicity for your
particular business. Media123 allows you to print on different label stocks
as well as to export to ascii files for mail merge. You can also add your
own media names to create your own list. It has never been easier to extract
the names of editors and talk-show hosts who can help you get the publicity
that your business needs. Advertising costs money, but publicity is free...
you just have to work a bit harder to get it. Media123 cuts this work in
half by saving your the time and effort of finding the media that covers
your particular business or product. The 10-day trial package is
full-features, but it only has some 1100 names/addresses. Upon purchase,
buyer is sent the complete 22,500+ file. There are other media lists on the
market but NONE of them come with their own easy to use update and extract
engine. Why pay high fees for PR when you can have the same data the
professionals have! Media123 will be updated once a year for a nominal cost.
This is the media application that you have been waiting for! You won't find
anything on the market like it for even twice the price! Once you try it,
you will be convinced that Media123 is one of the best investments that your
business can make. You can't sell if no one knows about you and Media123 can
get you started in getting free media publicity. A press release to the
right people is all it takes... and Media has the lists of the right people!
. $129 http://www.adams-blake.com or email info@adams-blake.com...Alan Canton
PUB123 is a complete back-office solution for the small office/home office.
The program has an easy to use interface for doing invoices, customer
management, inventory, and finance. It has over 40 reports which will help
you run your business. PUB123 exports credit card transactions to the
popular programs like PC Authorize and Transact. PUB123 also exports
financial data to Quicken and QuickBooks. What makes PUB123 so easy is its
simple to understand and navigate interface. There is almost no learning
curve. You can start now and be productive with it in thirty minutes. PUB123
has a very sophisticaed ad-hoc query system so that you can find and report
the data that YOU want. It also prints labels to several different stock.
The program has been "internationalized" to print on European paper sizes
and labels. In additon to printing, you can easily export customer and order
data to ascii files for import into mail-merge programs. Another feature of
the program is the powerful royalty/license fee module, that will keep track
of amounts that need to be paid to francises, inventors, vendors. etc. There
is no limit to the number of customers, products, or orders that PUB123 can
handle. It is also available in a networked, multi-user version. PUB123 is a
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looking to find for a long, long time. Let PUB123 run your business, instead
of your business running you! Download at no risk, on a ten day trial. If
you like it, you buy it... and we know you will like it, as everyone does.
If you have a small business, either service or product oriented, PUB123 can
make your life a lot easier. $199. www.adams-blake.com or email
info@adams-blake.com...Alan Canton
WORKABLE WEBS:
Affordable, workable
web design for small publishers and associations. Please visit the web
sites in our gallery to see what we've done and what's in progress.
We're happy to answer questions about our services and pricing. Send
them to judy@workablewebs.com. Be sure
to mention that you found us through this site and we'll also tell you
about our special offers--only for those who come to us from
here...Judy Coker
PUBLISHERS' ASSISTANT is the business software program chosen by hundreds of
independent book publishers of all sizes. The program was introduced in 1989,
and has been constantly improved ever since. One secret to the success of the
program is that it is developed by an independent publisher, Upper Access
Books. We know the book business, and understand what publishers need their
software to do, because we use the program every day too. Visit our web site
at www.upperaccess.com...Steve Carlson
GRASSROOTS MARKETING: GETTING NOTICED IN A NOISY WORLD from Shel Horowitz --the
complete guide to low-cost, high-return markeitng in any medium, with nine
chapters on cybermarketing and cover blurbs from Dan Poynter
(Self-Publishing Manual) and Jay Levinson (Guerrilla Marketing). Order at
www.frugalfun.com/order.html, by phone at 800-683-WORD/413-586-2388 (8 a.m. 10 p.m. US Eastern Time) or from Amazon.com at Grassrots Marketing at Amazon.com.
SHEL HOROWITZ (author of three books on cost-effective marketing) provides
affordable, effective low-cost, high-return MARKETING: strategic planning,
consulting, copywriting, etc. for publishers, authors, and small business
owners. PRESS RELEASES A SPECIALTY. www.frugalfun.com, 413-586-2388, email
shel@frugalfun.com.
DESKTOP MIRACLES:
www.desktopmiracles.com:
Desktop Miracles is a full-service Publishing Design and Production
studio providing jacket and cover design and interior typesetting
to publishing clients nationwide from New York City to San Francisco.
Please visit our website for a detailed description of our services,
including complete print production management, and an on-line portfolio
of our design work, or email barry@desktopmiracles.com for our
latest portfolio via snail mail. www.desktopmiracles.com; 802-253-7900...Barry Kerrigan.
THE PUBLISHING GAME is a unique conference for writers and independent
publishers. This year's conference will take place September 3-5 in Boston.
Sessions include "Book Yourself on Oprah," "Break into Major Magazines," "Get
Reviewed," "Write a Best-Seller" and more. Speakers include John Kremer
(author of "1001 Ways to Market Your Book"), Brian Jud, Barnes and Noble's
Marcella Smith, Joel Roberts, humorist Ivy Eisenberg, as well as major NY
publishers, bestselling authors, literary agents, and a 50-vendor exhibit
hall (including publicists, internet experts, cover artists, printers, etc.)
Conference price includes three glorious days in Boston, a private one-on-one
consultation with the expert of your choice, web design for your book or
business, sumptuous meals with speakers and literary notables, land/sea tour
of Boston, six course banquet at Medieval Manor Theatre Restaurant, and much
more. See www.PublishingGame.com for more details, or send your snail request to info@PublishingGame.com for a complete brochure...Fern Reiss
AEONIX PUBLISHING GROUP: www.aeonix.com. There are many issues in
creating and publishing a professional looking book to be sold in book
stores, specialty shops or through direct mail and the Internet. Aeonix
Publishing Group provides full service design and production management.
Aeonix can help you with producing your book. We can give you advice, as
a consultant or trainer, or we can produce a complete camera ready book
for you. If you wish, we will design covers and marketing materials for
your book. In addition, we can help you prepare RFQs for printers and
evaluate the bids you receive and give you guidance with tax issues,
marketing, and distributing your book. To contact Aeonix Publishing
group, send an e-mail to Info@Aeonix.com or visit our web site for
helpful publishing tips...Pete Masterson.
BOOK PROMOTION RESOURCES from Para Publishing and Dan Poynter. Over 500
pages of valuable resources to help you with the producing, selling and
promoting of your books.
Featuring The New Book Publishing Model. There is an innovative way to
write, produce, sell and promote books. Yes, the book business just became
faster, easier and cheaper. See our Web site and our two new books: Writing
Nonfiction: Turning Thoughts into Books and The Self-Publishing Manual: How
to Write, Print & Sell Your Own Book (12th revised edition).
You may list your book on our site free. Just click on Success Stories.
Place your book in the proper category (genre) and include your email
address and Web site URL so customers can respond directly to you.
Need help? See our Suppliers List of editors, typesetters, printers, PR
agents, copy writers, bar code suppliers, books designers, cover artists,
dump manufacturers, exhibiting services, fulfillment services, media
lawyers, truckers, web site designers, and much more. Dan Poynter can help
you too with workshops and private consulting.
For a FREE Information Kit on book writing, producing or promoting, visit the Para Publishing Web site...Dan Poynter
FLORIA PARMIANI (author of children's books, Italian vegetarian cooking,
poetry, and essays), offers ITALIAN TRANSLATIONS for publishers, authors, and the general public. Floria
Parmiani was born and raised in Florence, Italy.
www.floria-publications.com or email: floria@floria-publications.com.
IVAN HOFFMAN is a publishing, copyright, Internet law, recording and music
attorney as well as a published writer and author. He practices in the Los
Angeles area. (Note from Editor: He also helps long distance with contracts and legal assistance. And his web site has numerous articles on publishing issues). You may reach him on the Internet at ivan@ivanhoffman.com, web site www.ivanhoffman.com or
via a real telephone at (818)342-1762.
EDITORIAL SERVICES -
An Eye for Details--Ensure the success of your nonfiction book with
high quality editing and proofreading. We'll clean up your book and
check spelling, punctuation, grammar, format, consistency and more.
Thorough, dependable, discreet, meticulous. Content editing,
copyediting, rewriting, and proofreading. Contact Sharon at 949-
581-6190 or
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Sizzling marketing and public relations campaigns by the joint
efforts of PeopleSpeak and Sizzle. Our team can deliver clever and
inventive marketing campaigns that will make your nonfiction books
stand out; write snappy, attention-getting press releases using fax
and e-mail blasts; contact reading groups and book clubs that will
capture more of your niche market readers; and more. Contact Sharon (see above)
or Mary Ellen at 858-456-0707 or sizzle@connectnet.com,
www.detailsplease.com/publishingsuccess.
...Sharon Goldinger
BOOKWRIGHTS Design Studio. Book jacket and text design and production.
Print brokering. 18 years experience in book publishing. Our clients range
from self-publishers to NY publishing houses. Used by many pub-forum
members, ask us for references. Email us at design@bookwrights.com and see
our samples and pricing at www.bookwrights.com...Mayapriya Long
MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW - Produces a weekly half-hour television show
(Bookwatch, Madison WI); a shortwave radio commentary (KNLS Bookwatch)
broadcast to Europe, North & South America, and the Pacific Rim;
publishes four monthly library newsletters, two monthly on-line book
review magazines. We also have contractual arrangments to provide book
reviews to Amazon.com; Borders.com; BarnesAndNoble.com; and Gale
Research Company (for inclusion into the interactive CD-ROM series "Book
Review Index" for corporate, academic, and community library systems. Additionally, we maintain a major website for publishers, writers,
librarians, book retailers, and the general reading public, as well as
posting the individual reviews to thematically appropriate newsgroups,
listserves, websites, online bookstores, and internet discussion groups. The Midwest Book Review is an organization of volunteers committed to
promoting literacy, library usage, and small press publishing. We accept
no funds from authors or publishers. Full permission is given to post
any of these reviews on thematically appropriate websites, newsgroups,
listserves, internet discussion groups, organizational newsletters, or
to interested individuals. Please give the Midwest Book Review a credit
line when doing so. When submitting their books for review consideration, we require
publishers to provide a finished copy of the title (no galleys or
uncorrected proofs) accompanied by a publicity release...James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief, Midwest Book Review, 278 Orchard Drive, Oregon, WI 53575
1-608-835-7937, email: mbr@execpc.com or mwbookrevw@aol.com, website: www.execpc.com/~mbr/bookwatch...Jim Cox
EXPERTS WHO SPEAK: Smart
authors and publishers know that paid speaking is an
effective way to generate book sales and cash to cover book
promotion expenses. In addition to active speaker marketing,
ExpertsWhoSpeak.ORG can often negotiate better fees and
contract terms, and make sure speakers are paid on time.
ExpertsWhoSpeak.ORG represents several Pub-Forum authors,
and assesses each speaking invitation for opportunity,
visibility, and profit; confirming arrangements and handling
paperwork. For more information visit
our website www.ExpertsWhoSpeak.ORG, email: speakers@ExpertsWhoSpeak.ORG or contact Pub-Forum
member Andrea Reynolds at (814) 774-5070.
BOOK STANDS: One and two-tier clear plastic book stands are available from
Footprint Press. See www.footprintpress.com/stand.htm for photos and
ordering information or email Sue Freeman at mailto:sue@footprintpress.com.
WexfordPress (all one word please) has two publications to brag about.
HOME PUBLISHING SECRETS, first in a series of pamphlets on the
possibliities of actually producing books etc. on a home computer, is
available now. The price is just $3.50 plus $1.50 shipping.
And our new book review, ROWSE REVIEWS is positively begging for books
to review. We will
even take books as email (pdf format) although we prefer hard copy.
Rowse Reviews has two unique and author-friendly policies: if we don't
review we critique, and if an adequate SASE
is submitted we will mail back review copies after they have been read.
See the attached for details. Our address is:
John Culleton
WexfordPress
2401 Haight Avenue
Eldersburg, MD 21784
john@carr.org
Also please visit ccpl.carr.org/~john/wexpress.html.
CONTENT EDITING: As an independent publisher I do many jobs myself. However, I also know my
limitations and I regularly hire consultants. One of my strengths is content
editing, which I now offer to other businesses, particularly writers,
publishers, and web designers. My expertise is in content editing
non-fiction works, particularly books, brochures, booklets, websites, and
company literature.
You can contact me by sending an e-mail to Editor@ElimBooks.com. You may also fax me at 413.566.2173. In your communication, let me know the details
of your project, including the following information: type and length of
publication, intended audience, and completion and publication dates.
For further details, see our website at www.ElimBooks.com/services.htm.
Thank you for considering Elim Books for your content editing projects.
Kimberley Converse, Publisher.
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Last Updated: 9/11/00.
