Self-publisher association

Self-publisher association
legal form	registered association
purpose	Representing the interests of German-speaking authors who publish their works on their own
Seat	Munich
founding	3rd February 2015
place	Frankfurt am Main
president	Tom Oberbichler (1st Chairman)
Vice President	Katharina Mosel (2nd Chair)
Secretary General	Jeanette Lagall (Managing Director)
Board	6th
Members	660 and 13 supporting members (as of 1.3. 2020)
Website	selfpublisher-verband.de

The Selfpublisher Association is an association that represents the interests of German-speaking authors who are independent from publishers .

General

The association was founded in 2015 in the House of Books of the Börsenverein in Frankfurt am Main by ten authors, including Matthias Matting , who was chairman from February 2015 to December 2017. Currently (as of February 2020) the association has 660 members, around two thirds of whom are pure self-publishers and one third are hybrid authors. According to an internal survey of the association, 21.5 percent of the members practice self-publishing as a hobby; 56.2 percent describe it as their sideline; for 22.3 percent it is their main source of income. Regular membership in the association costs 96 euros a year.

The aim of the self-publishers association is to stand up for all concerns of the German-speaking self-publishers. The aim is to promote exchange among authors, make their everyday lives easier and improve the acceptance of self-published books. Lobbying is an elementary field of activity. The association has been registered to represent interests in the German Bundestag and the EU. The association is also a member of the network authors' rights , which means that it is in regular contact with other author associations. The registered association is also a member of the German Literature Conference , the aim of which is to preserve the freedom of German literature. The association also supports the Federal Association for Reading Promotion . Since it was founded, the Selfpublisher Association has been represented at book fairs and other gatherings with its own stand and often an informative stage program.

Since September 2018, the Self Publishers Association acts as publisher of appearing in Uschtrin publishing magazine of self publisher will automatically which members.

German Self-Publishing Award & Self-Publishing Book Award

From 2017 to 2019, the association awarded the German Self- Publishing Prize in collaboration with the book trade's marketing and publishing service . The literature prize was awarded annually at the Frankfurt Book Fair to professional titles independent of the publisher. Whereas in 2017 and 2018 there were two categories of jury award and audience award , in 2019 there were two categories of fiction & children's and young people's books and non-fiction & guidebooks . Most recently, the prize was endowed with 6,000 euros per category.

Due to the Corona crisis , the MVB withdrew in 2020; The Selfpublisher Association is continuing the award under the new name Selfpublishing Book Prize and is planning the award ceremony as an online event on November 22, 2020. In the course of this, a third category was introduced, as a distinction is now made between fiction and children's / youth books.

The prerequisites still include that participating books must be available for the German-speaking book trade - evidenced by a German ISBN and an entry in the directory of deliverable books (VLB). The preliminary jury, consisting of experienced members of the association, creates the longlist with currently ten titles per category, whereupon the jury announces a shortlist with currently three books and finally determines the winner. The jury included Matthias Matting , Jochen Wegner , Ronald Schild , Nina George , Marah Woolf , Lena Falkenhagen , Wolfgang Tischer and CR Scott .

Award winners

• 2017, Jury Prize: Noras Welten - Through the Nimbus by Madeleine Puljic, ISBN 978-3-7450-3761-6
• 2017, Audience Award: Blutföhre by Monika Pfundmeier, ISBN 978-3-7448-0294-9
• 2018, jury award : Löwenblut by Monika Pfundmeier, ISBN 978-3-7448-7475-5
• 2018, audience award: micro-adventure by Christo Foerster, ISBN 978-3-9819-4760-1
• 2019, Fiction & Children's and Young People's Books: Das Mucksmäuschen by Monika Augustin, ISBN 978-3-7485-0021-6
• 2019, non-fiction book & guide: MyHighlands - Isle of Skye by Stephan Goldmann, ISBN 978-3-0006-0392-1

literature

• Vera Nentwich: Two that complement each other Börsenblatt dated November 21, 2019
• Bridging the gap between self-publishers and the book trade Börsenblatt on November 18, 2019
• Jury publishes shortlist for independent authors Zeit Online from September 17, 2019
• Dialogue between the book trade and self-publishing Börsenblatt from July 12, 2019
• Copyright: The new network law and its consequences Deutsche Welle of April 23, 2019
• Elisabeth Nöfler: Happy publishers, disagreed authors taz.de from March 31, 2019
• Every year there are more authors who can make a living from their work Süddeutsche Zeitung from October 9, 2018
• Do self-publishing prices encourage the exclusion of the self-published? literaturcafe.de from May 3, 2018

Web links

• Web presence of the self-publisher association
• Web presence of the German Self-Publishing Prize
• statute

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Announcement on the founding of the association in the Self-publisher Bible , accessed on February 29, 2020.
2. ↑ Public list of members on selfpublisher-verband.de , accessed on February 29, 2020.
3. ↑ Background information on the association in the Selfpublisherbibel , accessed on February 29, 2020.
4. ↑ Mention of the Selfpublisher Association as publisher of the magazine , accessed on February 29, 2020.
5. ^ Website of the Self-Publishing Book Prize , accessed on July 10, 2020.
6. ↑ Participation requirements for the German Self-Publishing Award , accessed on February 29, 2020.
7. ↑ Eligibility requirements for the self-publishing book award , accessed on July 10, 2020.
8. ↑ Archive page of the German Self-Publishing Prize , accessed on February 29, 2020.