Columbus Publishing

Columbus Publishing was created to help overcome these, and many other, challenges facing small indie publishers and authors in particular. While focusing our resources on digital solutions, including mobile apps, we also publish traditional books in both hard and paperback format. Whether you're a publisher with a library stock that you'd like to... sell digitally, or an author that has a manuscript for consideration, we'd love to hear from you. Columbus Publishing is privately owned and is a joint venture between an author and an Internet development company. 3) The final reason for Columbus Publishing is that it's about time a publishing company gave authors a fair deal. As a joint venture between an author and an internet development company, Columbus Publishing knows only too well the 'unfair' world for authors that currently exists. It stuns readers to know that, from the £10 book that they treasure, the etailer/retailer will likely get £6.50 (the margin can be used to crash the price of the book as the etailer/retailer wishes) and the distributer, publisher and author have a bit of what is left once costs have been taken from the £3.50. An author is paid royalties based on the selling price and will likely make less than 50p from the £10 book that they created and slaved over. This does not feel fair! It is not that much fairer for the publisher - who takes some risk up front and also gets very little of the overall pie. The etailer/retailer takes no risk at all, as books are accepted on a sale or return basis.Read More