What are the types of publishers?
Traditional publishers: The books which you see at major bookstores are all by traditional book publishers. These publishers carefully scrutinize the manuscripts which come to them filter and publish only the ones which are worthy and the ones they can do justice to. The single most differentiating factor between traditional and all other types of publishers is the fact that the others do not have any retail book distribution network viz. ability to sell books through book stores. Self publishers: Self publishing is a new fad amongst authors. The concept is these so-called publishers publish everything that comes their way. The authors pay them and use their services as required, e.g. editing, cover designing & printing. Once the book is ready the book can be sold through book selling websites. These services are also called Print-on-demand services. A few call their services co-publishing. Various websites tweak around their services to separate their offerings from the competition, i
