A quick post – really a ‘re-post’ / link to a Seth Godin blog post about building trust back on the 19th… Seth talks about a recent purchase experience – and what it took for the companies to earn his trust. I’m paraphrasing his comments into my own thoughts below… Clean and professional web sites, [...]
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I’ve written before about the power of Google Book Search for authors and the self publishing industry as a whole. I think it’s an amazing service and never really understood the complaints… but, that’s not the point of the post. This is all about the new goodies for Google Book Search that Google unveiled on [...]
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A new set of terms have been floating around the publishing world lately – though the ‘core’ term seems to have been invented way back in 2006 (an eternity, I know…) by Scott Karp at his blog Publishing 2.0 – the (r)evolution of media… Morris Rosenthal appears to have recently coined Self-Publishing 2.0 – and [...]
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I just received my email from Writer’s Digest for their 101 Best Websites for Writers – a very different list from past years. For those of you in the world of self publising that don’t follow the Writer’s Digest list, this venerable magazine puts together a list of what they feel are the absolute best-of-the-best [...]
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I’ve blogged about textbook publishing before – and the ‘broken’ model that costs college students (or their parents) often thousands of dollars for product that barely (if at all) meets their needs. Professor Textbook is an indie textbook publishing model that we created out of our Dog Ear Publishing experience – and a great post [...]
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I’ve been dismayed that over the past week or so the no-cost service that allow self published authors to track their Amazon.com sales rank is no longer online (www.titlez.com – I wrote an article on tracking your amazon sales rank last August in which I discussed the site). I placed a call to the company [...]
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It’s been a long dry spell here in blog-land for Self Publishing Today – I often suffer from working ‘in’ the business instead of working ‘on’ the business… So – to start back into getting information out, I thought I’d start with a lighter post… Here is a little lesson authors can learn from a [...]
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