xlibris self-publishing
Filed in archive Entrepreneurship on May 5, 2004
The WSJ had a long review of Xlibris in the weekend issue. We had Xlibris discovered here some month ago. The article gives more inside about the company:
- authors pay a setup fee for publishing a book between US$ 500 - US$1,600
- Xlibris provides basis marketing as well as additional customized services that can cost as much as US$ 2,000 additionally
- Xlibris published 10,269 books so far (sums up to roughly $ 6 million in revenue totally)
- only 352 have sold more than 500 copies
- the average sold copies is 132 items per book
- Xlibris estimates to reach revenue of $ 8 million this year (up from $ 2.5 million in 2000)
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Rating: 6.43 out of 7 vote(s) cast.
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Response from:
Blake Hendrix
(12/24/06 9:16am)
Response from:
dave weinman
(02/26/08 9:52am)
xlibris has the worst service of all. not only are they unprofessional the reps are so rude. i got escalated to pam pasco and she was so stupid. she didn't know what she was talking about. then was escalated to a certain dave weinman who could not even speak straight english. he was stuttering and seems like he doesn't know what he was doing as a manager. i ended up refunding my service...
Response from:
dave weinman
(02/26/08 9:54am)
xlibris has the worst service of all. not only are they unprofessional the reps are so rude. i got escalated to pam pasco and she was so stupid. she didn't know what she was talking about. then was escalated to a certain dave weinman who could not even speak straight english. he was stuttering and seems like he doesn't know what he was doing as a manager. i ended up refunding my service...
Response from:
ann onymous
(10/10/08 6:14am)
Xliris gets good marks for publishing and editing, but their marketing sevices have been very disappointing.
Response from:
Angry Author
(04/15/09 2:41am)
I am currently in the publishing process with Xlibris...and still waiting for my Author Rep to return my call...(two weeks) and I am definately not happy and I am ready to have my money returned to me!
Response from:
Jazmine Von Holzrand
(07/07/09 10:40am)
Terrible experience, unbelieveable incompetence. Worst of all they sent out some sort of booklet (never seen by me) as "review copies" to several high profile people on my list. It was junk & not complete. Ready to ask for my refund & go elsewhere. Hoope that is not a hassle.
Response from:
Tommey
(11/23/09 7:09am)
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I started to work with www.xlibris.com.
They took first payment of $510.00 on 11/20/09.
I did not want their servive at this time, and ask for a refund 11/23/09.
Having problems to get a refund back,did not use any of their sevices.
Does this mean I just lost $510.00?
Now I have to change my bank account?
They took first payment of $510.00 on 11/20/09.
I did not want their servive at this time, and ask for a refund 11/23/09.
Having problems to get a refund back,did not use any of their sevices.
Does this mean I just lost $510.00?
Now I have to change my bank account?
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1. Non-responsive to inquiries
2. Premium pricing with substandard service
3. Very slow in production
4. Printer problems including ink on page and binding issues
5. Marketing package that was not tailored to my product
While they do have a good reputation, they may be suffering from complacency. Engage with caution.