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’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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Here is the general idea of Twitter: It’s a social networking site where a user answers the question “What are you doing?” to make a status update. Then, “followers” of this user (friends, family, co-workers, etc.) receive an update on their own Twitter pages informing them of the user’s status. Twitter is similar to Facebook [...]
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One continual hot topic of self-publishing is how to market your book. Book marketing is arguably the most important part of the self-publishing process. After all, you might have written the best book in the world, but if you don’t market it, nobody will know about it! While I often provide book marketing suggestions on [...]
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(we are getting this question quite a bit – so I’m posting a reprint of an article on Amazon Connect from the Dog Ear Publishing web site) What is Amazon Connect … and why is it important to a self published author? AmazonConnect is a highly targeted blog within Amazon.com where authors can do a [...]
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This edition of Writer’s Digest (the March / April 2009 edition) has an amazing selection of articles on self-publishing – and actually does an amazing job of covering, literally, just about everything you actually need to know to get started self publishing your book. In the interest of full disclosure, as most of you know [...]
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