Building Trust – in self publishing companies

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, [...]

Writer’s Digest – Everything You Need to Know About Self Publishing

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 [...]

How to be a ‘Highly Successful’ Self-Published Author

Bob Baker just wrote a great article for the Small Publishers Association of North America’s Newsletter, SPAN Connection. In “The 7 Attributes of Highly Successful Authors,” Baker explained various qualities he found esteemed authors have in common. From my point of view, his tips can be divided into 3 sections: Determination, Promotion, and Innovation. I’ll [...]

Comparing Self-Publishing Companies

One of the important things I believe is lacking in the self publishing industry is an honest and objective way to look at how self publishing companies compare to each other. I cannot claim to have a completely objective view (since I own a self publishing company – Dog Ear Publishing) – but I can [...]

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