Urging Authors to be Entrepreneurs: iUniverse CEO Kevin Weiss (Part 7)

SM: What should I have asked you that I didn’t? KW: We have not talked about our overseas facility yet. I recently did a press conference with the governor of Indiana where I announced the closure of our Shanghai facility.

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Urging Authors to be Entrepreneurs: iUniverse CEO Kevin Weiss (Part 6)

SM: Will your publishers be paying a fee to gain access to the service? KW: Yes, they will pay a fee to use the service. In this business, if you do not have critical mass it is really hard to drive customer satisfaction and to get costs in line.

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SM: From a writer’s perspective, one of the biggest issues is marketing. If you are an author without an existing platform, how do you market your book, aside from to your friends and family? KW: That is the biggest complaint that writers have. We will launch something focused on author marketing by the end of

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Urging Authors to be Entrepreneurs: iUniverse CEO Kevin Weiss (Part 4)

SM: How big do you think the self-publishing, or publish on demand (POD), market is? KW: McMillen, Random House, and HarperCollins have all asked that question. My answer is that it is as big as anything else out there. There could be as many as a million manuscripts sitting around waiting to be published; people

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