Has anyone self-published their poetry?

[rantingpete]

I'm interested to hear from anyone who has self published their poetry in book form. If so:

1. Which company did you use?
2. How much did it cost?
3. Did you make any money from it?
4. Did you choose soft or hardback?
5. Colour or black and white?
6. How did you decide on a front cover?
7. How many pages?

I'm thinking of publishing a book but I want to be armed with as much knowledge as possible.

Many thanks

[Henry P]

if C Enyo is still on this forum, he should know as some months ago he suggested I publish my work through him

[Maryd.]

No, but if you find out RP let me know... Would be interested.

[rantingpete]

Cheers Henry.

Mary - Will do.

[mrbloom]

I've published through Amazon.com's CreatSpace. I looked at the other options, and came away confidant that this was the best choice. It's fairly cheap ($4ish per book), and, if you become a premium member ($40) it halves the price. The service is great, too.

[danecobain]

I'm interested to hear from anyone who has self published their poetry in book form. If so:

1. Which company did you use?
2. How much did it cost?
3. Did you make any money from it?
4. Did you choose soft or hardback?
5. Colour or black and white?
6. How did you decide on a front cover?
7. How many pages?

I'm thinking of publishing a book but I want to be armed with as much knowledge as possible.

Many thanks

I've not printed my poetry, but I have published a couple of other books. I use this site:

http://www.printondemand-worldwide.com/

With them, you have to typeset your manuscript and provide all of the artwork, and you pay around £60 for the first run because they have to set it up, then you pay around £2 per copy

Haven't made any money from them, but if I did start to make money then all of the profits would be mine, rather than a lot of other services that just print a copy and post it out whenever somebody wants to buy one. Printed in paperback with colour covers but black and white pages inside, (you can choose tons of options though and get an automatic quote for free), with a variety of pages - one had 310 or so, one 440, one 280. The covers were just whatever I could put together in photoshop, don't look too bad though.

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m570.l1313&_nkw=dane+cobain&_sacat=See-All-Categories

You can see them there if you want to take a look, I haven't got a photograph of a physical copy of one of them but they're pretty good quality.

[rantingpete]

Cheers MrBloom and Dane.

[danecobain]

Any time, good luck in whatever you decide to do - if I can afford it then I'd buy a copy of your poetry :)

[rantingpete]

Cheers mate, I'll let you know if I decide to go to print.

[timrichardson69]

Hi

I used Lulu - I am not sure how much they charge now but about 3 years ago, I had 2 Books published for me.

There quite good quality too.

[magic]

I have no idea about poems, poets, or publishing, although my sister has been trying to get some of her writing self-published and works for the Oxford University Press so I'll ask her about it when she visits this weekend. If you do publish it, I've just got my student loan and a series of cards that I need excuses to run up debts on... And I'm sure there'd be many other interested buyers like myself.

[rantingpete]

Thanks Majick. That's 2 I've sold already! hehe