AuthorHouse
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AuthorHouse, formerly known as 1stBooks, is a self-publishing company, based in the United States.[1] AuthorHouse provides self publishing and utilizes print on demand services.[2] Authorhouse has published books by nearly 40,000 writers, including Amanda Brown's best-selling Legally Blonde, made into a hit Hollywood film.[3]
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[edit] History
1stBooks was founded in Bloomington, Indiana, USA, in January 1997 by an aspiring author who had received more than 100 rejection letters from publishers; its first e-book appeared in June of that year. In January 1999, it started using print on demand technology to produce paper books. By December 2001 it had published 350,000 books and by January 2004, 2 million books from 18,500 authors — an average of 110 copies per author — had been printed. In March 2004 the company changed its name to AuthorHouse. It opened an office in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom in May 2004. By December 2004 it had published more than 3 million books. In December 2005, AuthorHouse was nominated by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce for the Small Business of the Year Award.[4] In October 2006, AuthorHouse won the Silver Award in Business excellence from BKD.[5]
The California company Bertram Capital purchased AuthorHouse in 2007 from the previous owners, Gazelle TechVentures, who had owned AuthorHouse since 2002. Later that year, Betram established Author Solutions and acquired one of AuthorHouse's competitors[6] - iUniverse - before relocating iUniverse's operations to Indiana in early 2008.[7]
[edit] Operation
AuthorHouse's authors include Senator Richard Lugar,[8] comedian Rita Rudner,[9] Canadian humorist Gordon Kirkland,[10] evolutionary psychologist Kevin B. MacDonald,[11] and Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard.[12]
Authorhouse has published books by nearly 40,000 writers worldwide,[3] including Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown, which became a best-selling novel and a Hollywood box-office success, starring Reese Witherspoon.[3] AuthorHouse also published Thomas Hargrove's Long March to Freedom, which helped inspire the movie Proof of Life, starring Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe.[3] In 2007, AuthorHouse published Carol Whang Schutter's September Dawn, based on the feature film of the same title.
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ "Prepare to laugh at essay collection". The Olympian, Seattle’s Daily Newspaper. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=OLPB&s_site=theolympian&f_site=theolympian&f_sitename=Olympian%2C+The+%28WA%29&p_multi=OLPB&p_theme=gannett&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=11021E7F2C7F0D60&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved on 2008-04-28.
- ^ Glazer, Sarah (April 24, 2005). "How to Be Your Own Publisher". The New York Times Book Review. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/24/books/review/24GLAZERL.html?_r=3&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin.
- ^ a b c d Russell, John (January 20, 2007). "California company buys self-publishing operation". Indianapolis Star.
- ^ "Indiana Chamber Names Small Business of The Year". Inside INdiana Business. July 2, 2006. http://www.indianabusiness.com/excellence/news.html. Retrieved on 2008-04-25.
- ^ "2005 BKD Indiana Excellence Awards Presented (Press Release)" (PDF). BKD. October 14, 2005. http://www.bkd.com/docs/news/NzRel_IndyExclAwd2005-10-14.pdf. Retrieved on 2008-04-25.
- ^ Milliot, Jim (September 9, 2007). "AuthorHouse acquires iUniverse". Publishers Weekly. http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6476444.html.
- ^ "Self-Publishers Flourish as Writers Pay the Tab". New York Times. January 27, 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/books/28selfpub.html?_r=1&hp. Retrieved on 2009-01-28. "In 2008, Author Solutions, which is based in Bloomington, Ind., and operates iUniverse as well as other print-on-demand imprints including AuthorHouse and Wordclay, published 13,000 titles, up 12 percent from the previous year."
- ^ "Sen. Richard Lugar's Advice to the Next President; New Edition of Acclaimed Book Addresses Foreign Policy Issues (Press Release)". PR Newswire. October 20, 2004.
- ^ Naked Beneath My Clothes
- ^ "Gordon Kirkland to Release His Fifth Collection of Short Humor (Press Release)". PR.com. January 25, 2007. http://www.pr.com/press-release/28059.
- ^ The Culture of Critique
- ^ The Ballard Rules
[edit] External links
- AuthorHouse - official site
