Sunday, May 20th, 2012
“Publishing used to be an industry. Now it’s a button.”
That aphorism by NYU professor Clay Shirky overstates the case, but only a little.
I signed up to write my sixth book back in the olden days of 2005. Seems like only yesterday, right?
But from a writer’s point of view, 2005 might ...
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Friday, January 13th, 2012
In "20 months Hocking has sold 1.5m books and made $2.5m" ... all through self-publishing! - Disbelief! But true...
Amanda Hocking, the writer who made millions by self-publishing online
A couple of years ago, Amanda Hocking needed to raise a few hundred dollars so, in desperation, made her unpublished novel available ...
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Thursday, January 12th, 2012
If you are interested in learning a bit more (non-technical) information about self publishing, you might want to read my blog posts on POD (print on demand) and e-books:
- Print on demand: Self-publishing getting started primer
- POD authors go Kindle, ePub: Here’s a bit of a primer
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Friday, December 16th, 2011
From the CBC.ca website: Publishers, retailers tussle over e-book prices.
When it comes to pricing ebooks, publishers are so out of it. So, let's see... No printing, distribution, returns. Ebook prices should be the same as print prices? Idiots. Oh, and are they paying writers any more in royalties? No never ...
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Friday, October 14th, 2011
Using the book marketing hints and tips in this blog post won't guarantee that your book will become a best seller or that you will sell boxes of books. However, not using the book marketing hints and tips in this blog post all but guarantees that you will not sell ...
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
The Editors' Association of Canada is sponsoring a Print-on-Demand (POD) for Beginners seminar conduct by Paul Lima.
This Print on Demand (POD) workshop covers a variety of topics related to self-publishing and marketing your books, including:
- POD defined
- Difference between POD, vanity publishing, and vanity POD
- Importance of targeting your audience ...
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Monday, August 8th, 2011
Print On Demand Video Primer: How to Get Your Book to Market
Print on Demand (POD) is a popular, affordable short-run publishing process that can be used to self-publish and sell print and electronic copies of your book(s) from your website and/or from leading online booksellers such as Amazon and Barnes ...
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Monday, July 18th, 2011
Now that I've published 12 Amazon Kindle books, a few people have asked me when I'll be updating my Print on demand: Self-publishing getting started primer to include a section on e-books, particularly Kindle and ePub books. Instead of an update, here is a (non-technical) post on e-books, focused on ...
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Friday, June 17th, 2011
If you are interested in self-publishing or POD (print on demand), you might find the following three videos on "The Yin and Yang of (self)Publishing" (shot during The Ontario Writers’ Conference 2011) of interest...
Here's the Yin, (with a very nice publisher's rep, Adrienne Kerr from Penguin. She kind ...
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Monday, February 1st, 2010
January was my best month ever for book sales, I'm pleased to say.
Okay, compared to Harry Potter, I have a long, long, long (long, long...) way to go when it comes to book sales; however, January was my best month ever for sales of my books on business, promotional ...
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