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First-time author E.L. James was offered $5 million dollars last month for the movie rights to her self-published novel, Fifty Shades of Grey. This self published trilogy has taken off in print and in e-book form.

The novel's success may also have something to do with our collective love of the underdog. The publishing history of Fifty Shades of Grey is a rags-to-riches story. But in America we have had so many self made, self publishers, Mark Twain among them.

Self-publishing success stories are an American tradition, one in which the revolutionary/genius/outsider triumphs. From Stephen Day in 1640 who used the first printing press to publish editions of the Bay Psalm Book to Ben Franklin’s self-published paperbound pamphlet Poor Richard's Almanac. And in 1776, Thomas Paine self published "Common Sense," that sold over 500,000 copies and helped start the American Revolution.
 
Self-published authors are the literary equivalent of self-made men and women.  Self-publishing serves as an alternative to the sluggish world of mainstream publishing.

These "author-services companies" don't offer publishing deals, advances, or publicity agents because there's no inventory and no investment. It's all done via the internet, which allows publishers to print copies of books per request.

Self-publishing offers anyone with a manuscript the opportunity to publish. Interested in self-publishing? Contact The Country Press.

Excerpts from The Atlantic

Got a story to tell, a biography you want read, a cook book to share? There's a self-publishing service for you.

The Country Press will help you make a book. We provides hands-on custom service, and we are designed to ease, streamline and speed up the self publishing process. We will take you through the process step-by-step.

Self publishing grew out of what was once called vanity publishing - small private printings geared for friends, family and professional colleagues. With readily available technologies for making books emerging in tandem with online markets for selling books, self-publishing has become a great way for self publishers to get their books out there. Self publishing is creating a huge number of additional authors who want to be heard.

Self-publishing inverts the longstanding publishing model: Where authors have traditionally been paid by publishers. Have you got a book you want published, contact us.

Kansas City Star

The Country Press has been awarded a Certificate for their recycling efforts in 2011.  Country Press recycled 31 tons of paper.  Each ton of recycled paper saves 17 trees, 7000 gallons of water and 3 cubic yards of landfill space.  That means we save 527 tress 217,000 gallons of water and saved 93 cubic yards of landfill space.

The Country Press has always been invested in our community, our environment and in helping town governments, authors and publishers with their needs. We want to do so much more than print pages.

At The Country Press the entire focus of our business is the creation of bound galleys and short run books. As our industry continues to grow and expand we have invested in software and hardware which makes it very easy for you to do business with us. For small publishing companies looking for short run books, contact The Country Press.

Are you thinking of self-publishing a book but don’t know where to start? You are looking for a short run book printer who specializes in book design and book printing for self-published books. It should be easy to turn your manuscript into a professional quality book. But, self-Publishing can be a virtual minefield if you are not careful.

If you are a self publisher and are looking for books to fill your distribution channel, The Country Press can fulfill your requirements very effectively. First-time authors and self publishers need a short run book printer who pays careful attention to detail, a company who can customize book design with high end book printing skills.

To make this an efficient and successful process you need an efficient partner who can get advance reader copies, bound galleys, to wide audiences around the world. The process starts with short run books.

Short run printing provides a full range of cost effective services to publishers and authors, contact The Country Press, Inc.