With a slew of book publishers online ready to print anyone's novel, the process of finding a publisher has become as easy for would-be writers as pushing a button, reports Reuters.
Logging on to sites like Blurb.com, i-Universe.com, Lulu.com and Xlibris will allow writers to not only get their Great American Novel printed, the publishers will even sell it online for them.
Blurb and Lulu are smaller than sites like Xlibris, which acts as a unit of Random House and wages deals with writers up to nearly $13,000.
With Blurb, writers can get a single soft cover printed for just $18.95 with discounts doled-out every 100 or so books.
The business model helped to launch one aircraft maintenance planner, Fred Wilkerson from Prospect, KY from amateur-land to a major book deal with a publisher in Europe. Wilkerson wrote a 600+ page biography of Pete Townsend, which is garnering attention from the press - such as music magazine MOJO - and a promise from the rocker himself to write a foreword in the next edition.
