Talk:Xlibris

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Contents 1 Is It a Vanity Press? 2 Speedy deletion tag removed Feb 25, 2007 3 Content removal 4 Request for pronunciation

[edit] Is It a Vanity Press?

Xlibris has been identified by some fairly serious sources as a vanity press. (For just one example, see [1]) Since Wikipedia is devoted to balanced presentation, I think that information should be included. I added it once already, but it was removed without comment. Is there a good argument against including it? Artemis-Arethusa 16:46, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

You have no citations or proof of you're quite frankly rediculous claim so if you piut it back without any eviddence then i will be forced to recommend u to the moderatiors for temporarily block u from editting wikipedia. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Smith_Jones (talk • contribs).

I've reverted this user's removal of the vanity press information and added the source given by Artemis-Arethusa which does not exist according to Smith_Jones. AvB ÷ talk 17:11, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion tag removed Feb 25, 2007

Xlibris is a top POD publisher. I removed the tag and added two independent sources, bringing up the total to three. If anyone still doubts it deserves an article in Wikipedia, please read (and insert sources from) the following comment by User:Ben W Bell on the Nov 2006 AfD page:

• Strong Keep actually seems quite notable. The fact that is listed that Piers Anthony is going to republish one of his most famous series with them should help assert notability. I also retrieved this article from www.printondemand.com, a very common and highly used resource for those who do POD. A Google News Search turns up many stories where they are at least mentioned in passing, including mentions in the New York Daily News, The Sunday Times, a more exacting one in Mail Tribune to mention a few. Seems highly notable and popular in the POD arena. The article should be reworked slightly to be less advertisementy, but the company deserves an article.

AvB ÷ talk 10:25, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Content removal

I've removed:

According to Xlibris's own figures, the average book printed by Xlibris sells only 150 copies, out of which 100 are sold to the authors themselves (meaning they have to pay twice for publication), while the remaining 50 copies are the only ones sold directly to the book-buying public.

I was concerned for two reasons: a) according to xLibris, they don't require you to purchase any copies of your book., and while multiple copies of the book are provided in some of the packages (which you pay for), most are a lot less than that number; and b) the source provided for this information, Aren’t the various publishing services like Author House and Xlibris just printing services? is written by and published on a competitor's website, and is used to who how their publishing services are cheaper than xLibris'. Thus it is clearly not a reliable source. - Bilby (talk) 15:44, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Request for pronunciation

I believe the inclusion of a pronunciation snippit could be considered appropriate here, takers? Thank you! :-) 12.129.115.14 (talk) 17:35, 11 June 2008 (UTC)