Self Publishing Taking Over Traditional Publishing?

In Monday’s article in the Huffington Post, Mark Coker questions the future of the publishing industry.  With publishing a book, risks are involved.  Is the book marketable?  Who will purchase the book?  Will it sell?  In traditional publishing, the risks lie with the company.  There is no way to know whether a book will be [...]

Publishing Trolls – Breaking Down Authors One Page at a Time

Scenario:  You have been writing your book for some time, and it is finally completed.  After all of the work and effort you put into it, you are genuinely proud of your creation.  People may frequently look down on you because you are an author (and authors are supposed to be broke and unsuccessful), but [...]

Quick post – Top ten rules for creating a personal brand – for self publishers

I stumbled on to this from a Tweet by Guy Kawasaki … Dan Schawabel (the ‘personal branding’ guru) put together ten rules for creating your personal ‘brand’. Since a book – and an author – need to stand out to be successful, this list make sense for any author self publishing their book… There are [...]

Thomas Nelson gets into the self publishing game

What an odd juxtaposition of traditional publisher and self publisher – a self publishing story breaking today in the Wall Street Journal indicates that the venerable religious publisher has decided to enter the fiercely competitive landscape of self publishing. Based  in Nashville, Tennessee, Thomas Nelson will launch West Bow Press, their self-publishing imprint, and will [...]

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