Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 8 · column 6 of 6 · from the scan, no model involved
Print on Demand
Vanity presses require money up front from the author. The fee for printing the books is the source of a Vanity press’ profits, rather than boo)c sales. These operations are called vanity presses because they have no submission standards, printing any book to order. Now, thanks to modem printing and binding technology, publishers can create a fully bound, marketplace ready book in just a few seconds, and fairly cheaply. This technology, combined with the Internet, has created a new kind of company. Operations like Llumina Press require fully edited submissions, rejecting manuscripts that don’t meet their standards. While they are still being paid by their authors to print their books, Llumina assign their books bar codes and ISBN numbers, even registering their offerings on Amazon, com. After that however, authors at Llumina are responsible for their own marketing.
“Essentially, you are on your own,” said Bums. In order to market “Punjab Nights,” Bums has created a website “relwoodbums.org”. He also plans to use the services of various book related weblogs, such as grumpyoldbookman.blogspot. com.
91.5%