Launched in 2014 and graduated from 500 Startups Batch 13 in Mountain View, CA. Today, Publishizer is a NYC-based startup and crowdfunding platform that’...
From Huffington Post, Loran Kleinman interviews Publishizer founder Lee Constantine.
Launched in 2014 and graduated from 500 Startups Batch 13 in Mountain View, CA. Today, Publishizer is a NYC-based startup and crowdfunding platform that’s helped hundreds of authors get published. Authors have used Publishizer to earn over $1 million in funds. Perhaps this interview will inspire you to submit a proposal to begin to get your work out there. With the industry changing so drastically, I wanted to share the latest publishing innovations.
Loren Kleinman (LK): Can you talk about the traditional publishing route vs. what Publishizer has to offer authors? What are the benefits? Is Publishizer a new publishing model?
Lee Constantine (LC): Landing a traditional publisher can be a frustrating, convoluted process. Yet, most speakers, professionals and fiction writers want to publish a book. The main reasons being: credibility and retail distribution, followed by logistical help producing and fulfilling sales.
Self-publishing lacks legitimacy, especially now that anyone with internet access can publish on amazon and call themselves an expert on whatever topic they choose. It’s lowering the legitimacy of Amazon bestsellers every single day, while traditional publishing remains an elusive endeavor.
Publishizer uses proprietary software to query your proposal to a targeted list of acquiring editors from traditional publishers. We believe pre-orders can be used to filter and match authors with a diversity of potential publishers. Debut authors can get discovered, experienced authors earn better book deals, and acquiring editors make more profitable acquisitions.
Read the complete interview at Huffington Post. Link to Publishizer here.
