Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
By Heather Grace Stewart
I’m a poet. Okay, I trained as a journalist and have worked as an associate editor for four national magazines. I’ve heard all the jokes and stereotypes about poets, so I didn’t have the courage to call myself one until I was 33. I was a ...
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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A couple of years ago, Amanda Hocking needed to raise a few hundred dollars so, in desperation, made her unpublished novel available ...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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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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Sunday, May 8th, 2011
Just minutes ago, I sold my 1500th print on demand (POD) book through Lulu.com, an online POD sales and fulfillment company. I'm just shy of 3,000 books sold overall through all sources -- direct sales (workshops and PayPal) and LSI sources (such as Amazon) and Kindle, but Lulu's been a ...
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Workshop: Getting Your Book to Market Using Print on Demand
Paul Lima, veteran freelancer and author presents this timely workshop on Print on Demand publishing, a popular, affordable short-run publishing process that can be used to sell print and electronic copies of your book(s) from your website and/or from leading online ...
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
The boom in printing on demand
Just press print; new technology promises to prolong the life of the book
ESPRESSO might seem an odd name for a bookmaking machine. But the wardrobe-sized apparatus at Blackwell, a bookstore in central London, and 30 other locations worldwide can print a paperback in about the ...
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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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