Of course there are many more benefits to print-on-demand publishing than the four I listed above, but I am sure you can begin to see the benefits for yourself. However, even though print-on-demand publishing has many "pros," there are some "cons" that you might want to consider. One of those "cons" is how the established publishing community views print-on-demand books. They view them as "vanity" publications and booksellers may be reluctant to deal with them. Trade journals like Publishers

Weekly and Kirks also do not like to deal with print-on-demand published books and magazines and newspapers shy away from them also.

Why are publishers who are located in the high-traffic media biased against print-on-demand publishing? Because they know the author had total control over the book and it did not go through the standard editing process. So what? In my opinion, the media makes a great deal of money from writers and since print-on-demand technology does not provide them with this extra revenue print-on-demand publishing leaves a "bad taste" in their mouths. They tell their employees that print-on-demand publishing is not professional behavior, when the truth of the matter is that print-on-demand publishing is taking money out of their pockets. The "biggies" cannot reveal their true motive, so they do the "human" thing and create as much bad publicity for the print-on-demand industry that they can then use the leverage of other "biggies" like themselves to keep everyone’s pockets padded with the green stuff.

Or, go to any search engine and type in the search words "print-on-demand publishing" and start shopping. I chose Gom Publishing to publish my book. The total cost was less than $600 and I made this money back almost immediately.

If area first time writer or even published, you need to check out the benefits for your work by utilizing print-on-demand publishing. At least you now have more options available to you and perhaps one day, writers will be less dependent on publishers and can take the control over their own products.

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