I have seen Subito's binding and printing, and as long as the pdf is
OK, the printing and binding is fine. There was a time a few years
back when some Finale-made pdfs printed by Subito were missing clefs
and a few other things, but that's been fixed.
My understanding of Subito is that they are a publishing house (they
have a limited roster); but are also a place for self-publishing. I
have friends who use their site as a place to park their self-
published works. I also have friends who are published by Subito.
There is also ACA (which is BMI only). ACA (American Composers
Alliance) is a non-profit composers co-op that gets some of its
funding from BMI, and charges composer members a modest annual dues
payment. Otherwise, it functions exactly like a publisher (their
imprint is American Composers Edition), except it is easy to get your
things back if you want to place them at a future date with a
commercial publisher. In recent years they have become quite
professional, and there stuff looks great. One has to apply for
membership to ACA. ACA will also respond to requests for perusal
scores. And they make "perpetuity" agreement with members (so things
remain available after you are gone, with profits going to heirs).
In essence, both ACA and Subito allow you to upload pdfs, both give
you web space on their site to list works and receive orders, they
take and fill orders in a professional way, and they send you the
profits.
Neither site posts prices. I've been begging ACA to post prices for
the reason that Dennis mentions (lots of people don't want to request
a quote).
David Froom
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