Pocket Book Publishing is a sort of publishing that requires writers of short stories to register as a writer member of the publishing company. After registering, they can submit their stories electronically (upload them to a website) in order to publish your book. The pocket book is not an e book. It is a hard copy hold in your hand printed book. The book fits in your pocket and is a great little piece of entertainment, if you travel to work by train, bus, tram or plane you will find this quite handy indeed. But the main difference here is that the author doesn't pay for publishing. The publisher pays the writer. There are three formats: 9000 to 10000words / 18000 to 20000 words / 28000 to 30000 words. Remember, not every story you submit will get published, as companies are looking for fiction of any genre but it must be short sharp and snappy.

Pickapocketbook.com is a new series of pocket books specifically created for short stories. Pickapocketbook.com wants your short stories and they will pay your for them. Authors are on high-demand here, because they have hundreds of stories to fill their new Pocket Book Catalogue. Pocket Book Publishing was founded in 2006. This is a pocket book publishing company with a unique concept, and these folks think outside of the box. Unlike traditional publishing houses, pickapocket.com is offering a service to the short story writer. The pocket book was created with this specific reason and they only publish short stories. The goal is to invite writers of short stories, from all walks of life, to register as writer members for the specific reason of submitting their work, for publication into the pocket books. It costs $220.00 to register as a member writer, but those money are well worth it. Once you registered, you will be entitled to submit as many stories as you can write in one year. If you are a good writer or storyteller you will have more than one pocket book published in your first year. You receive $250.00 for each story that's published into a pocket book. Plus, quarterly payment on the sales of your titles.

Paraview.com is a pocket book publishing company that is looking for nonfiction trade paperbacks that appeal to the growing audience of "cultural creatives," readers who are interested in body, mind, and spirit and the frontiers of science and technology.

Statistics reveal that the pocket book publishing industry is recording some high numbers in Europe as for example in Spain, pocket book publishing is responsible for 5.8% of the published titles (3,610 titles) and 9.9% of the produced copies (30.3 million copies). Book sales in this format reached during 2002 a turnover of 120 million euros, with an average price per copy of 6.27 euros.

There is a lot of book publishing information on the web, particularly on the topic of self publishing.