Llanos Publishing
an independent publisher of e-books
Without forgetting its past, when a number of its writers published limited works of history, now in the 21st Century it has extended into fiction through digital formats.
In Our Favor...
Small! We do four projects a year!
Not an imprint of a mega publishing house! Where you are dehumanized!
Respect serious new authors! We know their time and their manuscript is paramount!
Reply to author query! All email letters get a personal note within a week! *
Lowest price! Find something less...
go for it!
Simple terms! No dozens of pages of litigated forms for our authors!
We help authors take their
dream to its end!
*** Piranha hunt the tributaries of the Llanos during the rainy season in search of flesh
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Our History:
Venture into publications began in 1978
Years in editing and review (1999-2007)
Certified and university trained staff (e.g. B.S., M.A., LLC)
History of published authors
Experienced in media (PBS, TV, cinema)
Llanos Publishing founded
on a mission:
Publish original works
of new authors
At Llanos Publishing, we believe it is sad that a new author’s self-published book should cost $29.95 (hard-cover) and $14.95 (paperback).
We know that avid readers often buy a celebrity author’s bestseller book at the local price club for about half the list prices—often as low as: $8.69/!!
We know readers rarely buy unknown books written by unknown authors at $29.95.
We know that without name recognition or a fan base, sticker-shock barcode prices, kill new author's dreams.
We know that when new authors promote their book by giving out $29.95 books it is a challenge.
We make your next step to your goal possible for less...far less!
E-mail us how...
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What Llanos Publishing does…
We give FREE website postings.
We market on-line at a time booksellers are scrambling in an effort to keep their bookstores open.
We simplify the ISBN process.
We supply color printed discs and attractive jewel cases.
We provide a FREE color cover for your finished work.
We give FREE e-books of your work.
We supply extra e-book units at agreed upon cost/unit.
AND...
For all accepted work, Llanos Publishing will post online, an Author’s professional biography--FREE!
New Authors hold a full page--FREE!.
As new Authors arrive, past Authors will be assigned a place on: The Showcase Page, where their books and bio are displayed--FREE!.
Llanos Publishing can produce an e-book unit, with printed cases and labels, which have security encrypted codes so an Author’s work cannot be edited or printed.
When Authors agree to market each unit off Llanos-Publishing.com websites, they may do so at any reasonable price, and Llanos Publishing receives $0.00!
Llanos Publishing will not waste your time. If a work is accepted, it will produce an e-book unit in weeks, not years like many publishing houses produce printed units.
If you can find anyone who can produce your e-book who offers more, use them!
* Between September 1 and June 1 Llanos Publishing's next published author will be announced here! Go to Author-2 Page The night sky of the Llanos fills with bats in search of insects
Your book is your dream!
Your e-book is a reality!!!
Traditional publishers are trapped in an old world...old marketing ploys, stagnant bookstores with big overhead costs, high-priced book production, and a heavy dependence on foreign offshore manufacturing, while a new generation purchases are Internet driven...
...but the traditional publisher still aims to sell books with attractive book covers .
However, strip away the book covers, expense of the book binding and paper and what is left?
Book content
At Llanos Publishing, we believe it is the content of a book that readers remember most, not the craft of a bookbindery, reputations of a cover illustrator, or type of ink and paper used.
Ever notice the number of startling book covers at the entrance of a bookstore?
Covers are marketing gimmicks used to sell a book, not the marks of literary achievement. How many remember the cover details more than a good book?
As bookstores diminish in number, and more and more books are bought on the Internet, it is the author, book content and title recognition that are remembered not a bookcover!
Prediction: Future books--e-books--will be bought with the use of Internet search engines based on author and content, not bookcover; and the written material will be downloaded to readers at a fraction of the cost of today's printed text.
If you are the type of reader who buys books by their covers you might want to leave this website, and then surf the Internet for other publishers for your work.
Using computer technology, Llanos Publishing joins the growing ranks of small companies, and not so small companies, in electronic publications. Big name publishers are headed for e-books, offering attractive prices to the smart-shopper. Our books have illustrations and covers! Llanos Publishing produces digital works, with smart, attractive covers, slipcases, and our works are illustrated! Libraries report more activity on their PCs than in their stacks every year. Digitized works increase this trend. First time authors without a publishing record have a one in a thousand chance of publishing their book with the first publisher they query1. Each year fewer publishers exist. During our acquisitions season (October to May), we reply within hours.
At Llanos Publish we believe we can be a stepping stone to your dream!
At Llanos Publishing we publish your e-book now, so you can pursue a bigger publishing company for your other publishing rights (hardcover, paperback, audio, screen, play, or international rights). Meanwhile, when you query other publishers, you can use our name as part of your resume.
Llanos Publishing holds only your e-book rights while you are posted on its website.
With Llanos Publishing, authors can withdraw their e-book with reasonable notice.
There is no fee to the transfer of e-rights back to the author. Authors may later self-publish or traditionally publish their book elsewhere so long as they credit Llanos Publishing on the copyright page.
Try finding a traditional publisher who will include more than one illustration. It's always in dreay black and white. Ours are in color!
Try finding a publisher who will allow you to design your bookcover or not charge you a hefty fee for the design you want them to create!
Why e-books?
Paper books are expensive
Paper book production destroys the environment
Paper books take up enormous library space
and the list goes on...
Over two hundred thousand titles are available from Amazon.com alone in e-book format. Their reader--the Kindle, as well as other electronic-handheld readers (e.g. Sony Readertm) have demonstrated the ease of transfer with the Internet. There have been remarkable sales of these devices and e-books in the first quarter of 2008.
Internet libraries and booksellers are the future! The future Internet library will change the local bookseller that has for years become lounges where a visitor is as much likely to purchase coffee than a book.
In a shaking economy, the days of crowded bookstores will continue to decline through the first quarter of 2009 as readers buy discounted books on the Internet.
Elsewhere...
Newspapers report rapid declines in pulp readership, loss of advertisement and the major ones are using digital services.
Universities are rapidly increasing their digital collections, and a growing number are converting their paper collections, including rare works, to e-books.
Most readers under the age of 30 are more likely to get their information from a digital source than from a paper page.
Almost every bestseller is available as an e-book, and sold at a lower price that a paper and print effort! The audio book is almost an automatic. But...
Paper books will continue!!
Llanos Publishing didn’t invent the e-book, nor do we believe e-books will replace a pulp work within our lifetime, but we know e-books are not going away, and by 2025, they will exceed beyond the expectations of today’s reader, especially for those born after 1960.
By 2010 expect standard hardcover books at $39 and tradebooks at $19.
Why?
Energy costs...
Digital readers are a fraction of today's cost.
Will your book be in an ebook library ready for the change or sit in the unopened cartons of your basement or garage?
WHY LLANOS PUBLISHING?
Still, authors query because everyone does, and then they wait and wait. Then they find many publishers never reply, even when the author includes a self-addressed stamped envelope.
Why wait?
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Llanos Publishing protects its authors and readers!!
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