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		<title>Building Trust &#8211; in self publishing companies</title>
		<link>http://selfpublishingtoday.com/2009/06/23/building-trust-in-self-publishing-companies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick post &#8211; really a &#8216;re-post&#8217; / link to a Seth Godin blog post about building trust back on the 19th&#8230;
Seth talks about a recent purchase experience &#8211; and what it took for the companies to earn his trust.
I&#8217;m paraphrasing his comments into my own thoughts below&#8230;
Clean and professional web sites, no bait-and-switch tactics, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfpublishingtoday.com&blog=2498282&post=279&subd=selfpublishingtoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Book Search &#8211; new features for the self published author</title>
		<link>http://selfpublishingtoday.com/2009/06/22/google-book-search-new-features-for-the-self-published-author/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written before about the power of Google Book Search for authors and the self publishing industry as a whole. I think it&#8217;s an amazing service and never really understood the complaints&#8230; but, that&#8217;s not the point of the post.
This is all about the new goodies for Google Book Search that Google unveiled on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfpublishingtoday.com&blog=2498282&post=270&subd=selfpublishingtoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is Self Publishing 2.0?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new set of terms have been floating around the publishing world lately &#8211; though the &#8216;core&#8217; term seems to have been invented way back in 2006 (an eternity, I know&#8230;) by Scott Karp at his blog Publishing 2.0 &#8211; the (r)evolution of media&#8230;
Morris Rosenthal appears to have recently coined Self-Publishing 2.0 &#8211; and we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfpublishingtoday.com&blog=2498282&post=261&subd=selfpublishingtoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>101 Best Websites for Writers &#8211; list releasing today</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just received my email from Writer&#8217;s Digest for their 101 Best Websites for Writers &#8211; a very different list from past years. For those of you in the world of self publising that don&#8217;t follow the Writer&#8217;s Digest list, this venerable magazine puts together a list of what they feel are the absolute best-of-the-best [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfpublishingtoday.com&blog=2498282&post=258&subd=selfpublishingtoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Textbook publishing &#8211; a changing model</title>
		<link>http://selfpublishingtoday.com/2009/06/15/textbook-publishing-a-changing-model/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve blogged about textbook publishing before  &#8211; and the &#8216;broken&#8217; 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 &#8211; and a great post [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfpublishingtoday.com&blog=2498282&post=256&subd=selfpublishingtoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TitleZ is down&#8230; but other &#8216;track your Amazon sales rank&#8217; tool exist</title>
		<link>http://selfpublishingtoday.com/2009/06/10/titlez-is-down-but-other-track-your-amazon-sales-rank-tool-exist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;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 &#8211; 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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfpublishingtoday.com&blog=2498282&post=254&subd=selfpublishingtoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Publishing or Self Publishing: A Lesson in Style, Consistency, and how Google has ruined our grammar</title>
		<link>http://selfpublishingtoday.com/2009/06/09/self-publishing-or-self-publishing-a-lesson-in-style-consistency-and-how-google-has-ruined-our-grammar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long dry spell here in blog-land for Self Publishing Today &#8211; I often suffer from working &#8216;in&#8217; the business instead of working &#8216;on&#8217; the business&#8230;
So &#8211; to start back into getting information out, I thought I&#8217;d start with a lighter post&#8230;
Here is a little lesson authors can learn from a grammar issue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfpublishingtoday.com&blog=2498282&post=251&subd=selfpublishingtoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Self-Published Authors can Help the Environment</title>
		<link>http://selfpublishingtoday.com/2009/04/22/how-self-published-authors-can-help-the-environment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earth Day is a good time to reflect on how we can all do more to help the environment. For self-published authors, that might mean taking a closer look at your options for publishing your manuscript. Print-On-Demand (POD) publishing and e-book publishing are both great alternatives to traditional offset printing.
POD publishing allows authors to print [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfpublishingtoday.com&blog=2498282&post=246&subd=selfpublishingtoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is Twitter and Can it Help Market Your Book?</title>
		<link>http://selfpublishingtoday.com/2009/04/09/what-is-twitter-and-can-it-help-market-your-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the general idea of Twitter:
It&#8217;s a social networking site where a user answers the question &#8220;What are you doing?&#8221; to make a status update. Then, &#8220;followers&#8221; of this user (friends, family, co-workers, etc.) receive an update on their own Twitter pages informing them of the user&#8217;s status.
Twitter is similar to Facebook status updates [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfpublishingtoday.com&blog=2498282&post=243&subd=selfpublishingtoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ben MacKinnon Shares Book Marketing Insights</title>
		<link>http://selfpublishingtoday.com/2009/04/01/ben-mackinnon-shares-book-marketing-insights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t market it, nobody will know about it! While I often provide book marketing suggestions on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfpublishingtoday.com&blog=2498282&post=239&subd=selfpublishingtoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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