Xlibris Company

Committing millions of dollars to authors that the publishing world usually ignores, a subsidiary of Random House Inc. has purchased a stake in digital custom press Xlibris. Founded three years ago, Xlibris makes books to order and sells them over the Internet through retail outlets such as Barnesandnoble.com and Amazon.com. Xlibris has published about 600 books so far, some selling as many as 1,000 copies, and hopes to release "tens of thousands" of books during the next few years.

Committing millions of dollars to authors that the publishing world usually ignores, a subsidiary of Random House Inc. has purchased a stake in digital custom press Xlibris. Founded three years ago, Xlibris makes books to order and sells them over the Internet through retail outlets such as Barnesandnoble.com and Amazon.com. Xlibris has published about 600 books so far, some selling as many as 1,000 copies, and hopes to release "tens of thousands" of books during the next few years.