Thank you for alerting us to the error within our comparison. Rest assured the blog has been updated, and the information corrected. Also, thank you for sharing your company information here – I’m sure our readers appreciate a bigger picture of the publishers listed, Dorrance Included.

We understand the Dorrance may be the best method of publishing for some authors, and we encourage our readers to check out all our competitors.

Please feel free to post more relevant information about your company any time you wish, and we invite all our fellow self-publishers to do the same, whether correcting or adding to our analysis here.

Thanks again!

-Justin

Your statement regarding book distribution that “Dorrance offers none, only distributing books sold directly through their own company.” is entirley false. All books published under the Dorrance imprint are assigned an ISBN and are fully returnable by any bookstore. Dorrance sells thousands of titles each year through bricks and mortar bookstores along with on-line bookstores. A search for Dorrance Publishing titles on Amazon alone will return close to 2,000 different entries. Additonally, orders are fulfilled via our toll-free number and also via our own on-line bookstore.

When Dorrance offers a publishing proposal to a prospective author a promotion campaign and budget for the book is proposed, but the author is free to reject that proposal and offer their own ideas for the use of the promotion budget dollars.

An important point concerning Dorrance publishing proposals that you do not note, is that the author pays for the first press run of the book to be produced (generally 500 copies), but Dorrance then pays for all subsequent press runs (the author makes no further contribution). Once 3,500 copies of the book has been produced the author’s earnings reduce to 25% since, by then, Dorrance has printed 3,000 copies of the book at Dorrance’s cost and the publishing agreement becomes closer in terms to a trade publishing agreement.

Dorrance welcomes comparisons of the services that we offer, if they are done accurately. We request that you correct your factual errors immediately.

Thank you.

David Zeolla
Managing Director