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Self Publishing Ebooks and the Niche Market
Over on her blog today Jennifer Crusie and Barbara O’Neal discuss the relative merits of self and traditional publishing. I highly recommend reading the whole conversation. Both are established,...
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NESCBWI: Tips on Design for Book Marketing
And we come today to our final post about New England’s SCBWI 2011 conference. To recap: the conference had a lot of great sessions, gave attendees an opportunity to consult with savvy publishing...
View ArticleAlan Rinzler on the State of Publishing
The other day Alan Rinzler blogged about the state of publishing today. He covers the flaws inherent to traditional publishing’s business model and publishing’s reaction to the sudden changes in their...
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The Long Reach of the Book
Here’s a book: note the tentacles. 50 Short Science Fiction Tales is a collection I found on my brother’s book shelf at some point as a kid. It has since been reissued, but we had an edition from the...
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Amazon Launches Kindle Indie Bookstore
When is an indie bookstore not an indie bookstore? When it’s Amazon. Amid the hubbub over their (admittedly awesome) Cloud Reader, Amazon today launched their Kindle Indie Bookstore. This storefront...
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Pottermore: YA Ebooks Are About to Take Off
Just wanted to quickly point out some good news coming down the pipe for Young Adult and Middle Grade authors. Pottermore (aside: where the hell is my welcome email?) is, among other things, the nexus...
View ArticleWhy Publishers and Authors Should Not Be Making Apps
The days when mobile apps had to be coded “by hand” are behind us, which is great. There are lots of companies now offering build-your-own app platforms, including many catering specifically to...
View ArticleNESCBWI ’12 Workshop: Making Ebooks
I’m leading a workshop at the NESCBWI ’12 conference, April 20-22, 2012. It will be a 2-hour intensive on how to make ebooks, for beginners (really. As in, if you can use a computer, you can do this)....
View ArticleNESCBWI is Nigh
I’m headed out to the NESCBWI conference tomorrow evening. After the conference I’ll be posting the slides from my workshop, along with additional reference material. If you can’t make it this weekend,...
View ArticleNESCBWI Presentation Now Available
My presentation for NESCBWI 2012, “Making Ebooks From Scratch”, is now available over at my NESCBWI 2012 page. Comes with notes, reference material, and a sample ebook to play with. Thanks to everyone...
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