{"id":511,"date":"2011-02-03T14:24:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T21:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/?p=511"},"modified":"2012-08-31T13:25:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T20:25:22","slug":"traditional-versus-self-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/03\/traditional-versus-self-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional versus self-publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><span style=\"line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px;\">Another tidbit relevant to a recent discussion re: traditional versus self-publishing &#8211; I just received a newsletter from Penny C. Sansevieri, editor at Book Marketing Experts, in which she states the following:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The truth about returns: Many of the print-on-demand\/self-publishers offer you a returns program. I haven&#8217;t found this to be very helpful. It costs the author to get in and then the bookstores have to participate, and few of them do. If you&#8217;re not sure, ask your local Barnes &amp; Noble if they accept returns from this publisher, their answer will tell you whether a returns program is a good investment of your money. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d never even thought about that possibility, and what she says makes good sense, enough that I felt it worthy to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another tidbit relevant to a recent discussion re: traditional versus self-publishing &#8211; I just received a newsletter from Penny C. Sansevieri, editor at Book Marketing Experts, in which she states the following: &#8220;The truth about returns: Many of the print-on-demand\/self-publishers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/03\/traditional-versus-self-publishing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writinghelp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}