Self-publishing has become an increasingly popular option for writers looking to bring their work to a wider audience. However, navigating the world of self-publishing can be overwhelming, with so many options and services available. That’s where we, CinnamonTeal Publishing, come in. We understand that each book is unique and deserves…
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Publishing at the Speed of Light
There are moments when certain developments challenge your long-cherished beliefs about the business you are in. These developments pose questions that make you wonder if you were wrong to begin with, about the assumptions you made about your business, its core values, and about the customers you hoped you would…
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Hybrid Publishing vs Self Publishing
A couple of months back, without too much of a fuss, CinnamonTeal Design and Publishing, formalised its hybrid publishing services. It thus becoming the first publisher in India to offer hybrid publishing. Having already introduced self-publishing in India, in 2006, we found ourselves, many a time, rewarding authors who had…
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Presenting India’s First Hybrid Publishing Service
This post discusses the concept of hybrid publishing, one that CinnamonTeal Design and Publishing has introduced formally for the first time in India (we had introduced it in the form of CinnamonTeal Elite a couple of years back). With the flood of information available on the Internet, authors can easily…
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The Evolution of Print on Demand In India
In 2007, we launched CinnamonTeal Publishing, to provide self-publishing services based on print-on-demand. In August 2007, we were the first in India to introduce these twin concepts as a business-to-consumer service. This article seeks to, in some way, chart the trajectory that both print-on-demand and self-publishing have taken over the…
The Business of Free
Today’s news included a report that Macmillan was shutting down Pronoun, the self-publishing platform it had acquired in 2016. To quote the article by Publishing Perspectives: ‘there was at times a community-wide hesitation around the platform because it charged nothing. Authors retained their rights and 100 percent of a retailer’s…
Books Must Sell. Period.
A good book should sell itself. There is no argument there. It should sell on its own merit, not because the author has garnered reputation elsewhere or because the contents of a book have stoked some controversy. The book should sell because it is well written, properly edited, nicely designed…
Introducing: Starter Kits for Self-Publishing Authors
It has been our steadfast belief that self-publishing packages do not benefit the author. An author who chooses to purchase a self-publishing package pays for services she may not require, while being led to believe that she does, and is offered no leeway in having those services tailored to her…
Of book reviews, editing, and the self-publishing process
One of our publications, Wilderness Tales from Similipal, by Satyesh Naik, received a review in The Wire. Described as “one of the most heart-warming reads in recent memory in the ever-expanding genre of Indian wildlife writing,” the reviewer proceeds to say that “the Odisha-based naturalist’s book is perhaps the first…
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The pros and cons of having an ecommerce-enabled website
When we launched CinnamonTeal Design earlier this month (July 2017), our repertoire included a whole bunch of services that we were already offering our authors previously as part of our self-publishing portfolio. Hitherto hidden behind a curtain of self-publishing services, a nomenclature that did no justice to everything else we…