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 [...]
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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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I just received our Google Book Search Weekly Summary Report – and I know I’ve covered Google Book Search before – but am consistently amazed at the power of this system to drive book sales. We’ve (at Dog Ear Publishing – my self publishing company) been focusing more effort on the Google Book Search system [...]
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Sorry… the post header reads like the title of a bad beach novel, I know, but I couldn’t resist. THIS post is pretty much a nothing post other than a general ‘here’s what I’m looking to accomplish going forward’ with the blog. I’m sure many folks out there (especially parents) found the summer to be [...]
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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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