Trafford Publishing

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Trafford Publishing is a self-publishing and print on demand publishing company based in Victoria, BC, Canada. The company was founded in 1995 by Bruce Batchelor (CEO and publisher), Marsha Batchelor, Steve Fisher and John Norris. According to Trafford, they were the first company in the world to offer print-on-demand or POD publishing, which means they print shorter runs or even one copy at a time, and they publish over 2% of all newly released North American book titles with more than 300 titles per month by authors from over 100 countries.

In 2005, PROFIT, a Canadian national magazine for entrepreneurs recognized Trafford as one of Canada's fastest growing companies and ranked it in the top 10 businesses.

Many but not all Trafford titles are available on Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, BarnesandNoble.com, and some have been converted to e-books and are distributed via Powells.com.

[edit] How Trafford works

Trafford is a print-on-demand self-publisher. They require payment from the author to cover set-up costs, and the author has to do his or her own marketing.