As of February 2005 this company no longer offers POD services, insisting instead on authors paying for an offset print-run of several thousand copies and with a price estimate approaching $20,000.00. In spite of the fact that this no longer qualifies as a POD publisher (and seeing how a reference to them is going to remain here for a few months anyway) I believe a warning is warranted concerning the fact that while the information at their site tries to dazzle you with an awful lot of numbers, the logic behind their reasoning is flawed and some of their assertions are downright ridiculous . These are only a couple of token issues that can be used as an example (but they are not the only ones): They claim that 90% of books released by traditional publishers never earn back their advances but they suggest that if you make the initial investment yourself you can expect to make hundreds of thousands of dollars... what they are not telling you is that going by their basic figures chances are you won't recoup your original investment (in other words, they don't really explain why your book won't be one of the 90% that doesn't make it). They mix numbers from different examples without making a clear distinction between them, hinting at dangerously erroneous conclusions. The information on which their figures are based is incomplete. In other words, they may no longer offer POD services but they sure don't sound like a good deal to me and an investment of this magnitude is something you probably don't want to gamble on.

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