[Genealib] Re: Publishers for genealogy material

Tue Sep 26 20:54:25 EDT 2006

Hi All,

  Craig, as always brings up some very good points. If anyone wants to ask our company, The Gregath Publishing Company, questions. Feel free at any time :o) We began publishing in 1970. Visit our informational site at http://www.gregathcompany.com, call us at 918-542-4148, or email fredrea at gregathcompany.com for the business email. We work mainly with self-financing authors and groups, offer manuscript preparation, can produce a variety of bindings and quantity. We'd love to be able to quote on any book project that can help share genealogy and history with the world.

  Thanks,
  Carrie Cook, VP/Webmaster
  The Gregath Publishing Company
genealib-request at mailman.acomp.usf.edu wrote:
  Today's Topics:

1. Publishers for genealogy material (Sonia Schoenfield)
2. RE: Publishers for genealogy material (Dunn, Lesle)
3. RE: Publishers for genealogy material (Marge Bardeen)
4. Re: Publishers for genealogy material (Trevia W Beverly)
5. RE: New Genealogy Librarian Position at the Allen
CountyPublic Library (Roberta Allen)
6. RE: New Genealogy Librarian Position at the Allen
CountyPublic Library (Curt Witcher)
7. RE: Publishers for genealogy material (Joe Garonzik)
8. Re: Publishers for genealogy material (Craig R. Scott)
9. Re: Publishers for genealogy material (Craig R. Scott)
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:54:09 -0400
From: "Craig R. Scott" 
Subject: Re: [Genealib] Publishers for genealogy material
To: "Librarians Serving Genealogists" 
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"Publish" can mean many things.

Is your patron looking for someone to pay for the printing of their book and pay them a royalty? 

If that is the case then you need to find a traditional genealogical publisher that will accept the manuscript. A lot will depend on the quality of the content of the letters.

Is your patron willing to pay for the printing of their book and therefore "self-publish?" 

Would they be willing to purchase a guaranteed quantity of the title if a publishing house published it for them?

Can your patron edit the material or will they need help?

These and many more are the questions that need to be asked before a publishing company can be appropriately selected by an author. 

I will say that if you don't know what you are doing, need lots of help getting it done, and expect a lot of hand holding during the process than my experience is that Gateway Press is your best bet, and if you came to me that is where I would send you. 

If you don't need a lot of hand holding and can provide camera ready copy, but need someone to create the cover for you, there is this other company that can help you.

Each publishing firm brings its own expertise to the process and the issue is finding out what the best fit will be. Each publisher is different and brings a different set of expectations to the process.

The most important thing that an author can do is ask questions to see if there is a good fit.

C.

Craig R. Scott, CG
President & CEO
Heritage Books, Inc.
65 East Main Street
Westminster, MD 21157

800 876-6103
410 876-6101
(fax) 410 871-2674
crscott at HeritageBooks.com

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Sonia Schoenfield 
To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu 
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 3:11 PM
Subject: [Genealib] Publishers for genealogy material

Hi-

I have a genealogy patron who is looking to publish a book but is not sure how to go about accomplishing this. He has a wonderful collection of letters that he would like to have put into a book. These letters were sent to his grandmother from her siblings and other relatives, and they really cover a slice of American life from a certain time period. One person fought in the Civil War, another had an encounter with John Wilkes Booth before Lincoln's assassination, still another wrote from the fields of the gold rush. That's just to give you an idea of what he has and to illustrate that it's not a genealogy or family history that he wants to publish, but something of interest to his relatives and possibly historians as well. 

Any ideas about who I should send him to? 

Thanks for your input!

Sonia Schoenfield

Cook Memorial Public Library District

Libertyville, Illinois

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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:15:29 -0400
From: "Craig R. Scott" 
Subject: Re: [Genealib] Publishers for genealogy material
To: "Librarians Serving Genealogists" 
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>I would recommend Masthof Press over Closson Press, I think Closson books
> are cheaply prepared.

Although I would not have ever said this about Closson, until recently their 
books had simple covers and usually lacked lamination, but the glue binding 
was always good. Their books looked inexpensive and their pricing reflected 
that fact. They are very inexpensive compared to other publishers. With new 
equipment obtained during the past couple of years their covers on new 
titles have more variety and many are laminated. Their production of the 
"Early Landowners of Pennsylvania" series for Ancestral Tracks is excellent 
and reflects what they are capable of doing in the perfect binding market. 
There has, to my mind not every been the hint that their cloth titles, were 
anything other than excellent bindings.

It is also important to recognize that you get what you pay for when it 
comes to self-publishing. You have to be willing to pay for the lamination, 
the color cover, the screened pictures and so much more.

Although I can not speak for Closson and would not even try to, I can say 
that in my opinion, they have done everything that they can do to provide 
their product as inexpensively as possible. There is a deference between a 
publisher inexpensively creating product and pricing it as such and 
producing a product to the known expectation of a author who is willing to 
pay for the production.

I have always found that my dealings with both these two companies to be 
honest, fair and perfectly fine in every way. They are both a joy to work 
with and I am happy to know both of them.

C.

Craig R. Scott, CG
President & CEO
Heritage Books, Inc.
65 East Main Street
Westminster, MD 21157

800 876-6103
410 876-6101
(fax) 410 871-2674
crscott at HeritageBooks.com

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