Got a tip from a fellow writer that the National Book Development Board will be holding a seminar for authors at their office at UP Diliman tomorrow November 15, 2005. Called them up even if it was already six in the evening, and luckily Ms. Asena Galang of their research department was kind enough to entertain my call. It turns out that there will be two seminars. One will be about Print/Publish On Demand to be given by CentralBooks, and the other by McGraw-Hill (she was not sure of the details).  Although the seminar is for registered authors only of the NBDB, I might still drop by tomorrow morning -- the seminars are scheduled at 9 o'clock and 1 pm, but Ms. Galang said that usually they start at 10. Ms. Galang also suggested that I tell the organizers that I will register later so that hopefully I can be accommodated.

At any rate, while browsing the NBDB site, I came upon this news item about the Witman Publishing Company of HongKong which also recently gave an NBDB-sponsored seminar. As you can see from the article, they seem to be open to new authors, so I searched for their website and found out that indeed, they accept manuscripts from everyone, and are also open to applicants in their editorial department. As stated in the news item, their compensation rates range from $HK200 to  $HK12,000.