Colleen Doran Beats Up A POD Service

Longtime self-publisher, artist and cartoonist Colleen Doran looks at how a specific POD service presented itself to a colleague and then slowly, using multiple examples, kidney punches it to death. The takeaway is to be careful how you approach using self-publishing services, and to make sure that you get value for what you're paying. One might think that a self-publisher would always apply the "can I do this myself better and for cheaper" standard to using a business' services, but I think that's the difference between an earlier generation that sought out self-publishing mechanisms for various reason and today's self-publisher that might only be in it because it's the only viable alternative -- in other words, what was once an option to being published had become an option to not being published, and there are people that will use that as a leverage point to sell you on services that are poorly executed and that you don't need.
 
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