Writer’s Digest quietly severed ties with Author Solutions, which provided the back-end to its self-publishing service Abbott Press , earlier this year. Now the company has teamed up with BookBaby for a different self-publishing program under the name Blue Ash Publishing. The new program takes pain to distinguish itself from the earlier one, touting “100 percent net earnings” once retailers are paid their percentages, and “no commission” taken by BookBaby, “total creative control” including full rights ownership to the author, “exclusive education programs” that include weekly newsletters, and for those who pay more, access to Writers Market, and other digital […]