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		<description><![CDATA[Self Publishing &#8211; the impact of great SEO book titles and copy I spent some time chatting with an author today about self publishing their book &#8211; and exactly HOW to make the book stand out &#8216;SEO-wise&#8217; on the various online bookstores and search engines (Google Book Search specifically). Creating great SEO for your book [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfpublishingtoday.com&blog=2498282&post=347&subd=selfpublishingtoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Self publishing requires a strong First Amendment &#8211; support 1 for All</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.&#8220; It seems so easy to understand, yet I doubt any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfpublishingtoday.com&blog=2498282&post=339&subd=selfpublishingtoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Kindle Sales vs. book sales in general&#8230; the printed book ain&#8217;t going away</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone has probably heard about or read the press release  from Amazon announcing that the online bookseller reached a point at which they sell more Kindle books than hardcover books. In reading and watching much of the media coverage you&#8217;d think the printed book was on the way out. Interesting. More interesting though are a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfpublishingtoday.com&blog=2498282&post=329&subd=selfpublishingtoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of the Talk Show &#8211; Rock Junket: New York City from Dog Ear Publishing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dog Ear Publishing author Bobby Pinn has been at the business of New York City tours for years. He&#8217;s built a career and reputation on showing visitors (and New York natives) the famous haunts and &#8216;rock-historic&#8217; locales in New York City. He (and his book) were featured on the Fox News New York morning show. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfpublishingtoday.com&blog=2498282&post=323&subd=selfpublishingtoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Self Publishing and Social Media &#8211; redux -</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dog Ear Publishing author, Ted Karam, is taking a novel and exciting approach to using social media and the web to promote his book, Jumping on Water. The &#8216;special offer&#8217; approach has been used forever to help build sales for a product &#8211; but what can happen when you get literally dozens of experts contributing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfpublishingtoday.com&blog=2498282&post=319&subd=selfpublishingtoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media in the Self Publishing World</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney the Intern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article by B.L. Ochman was released this week marking the “Ten Things Social Media Can’t Do.&#8221; As technology improves and progresses, businesses need to be able to keep up with it in order to better contend with their competitors.  That being said, social media is not the answer to everything.  Of course, it’s a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfpublishingtoday.com&blog=2498282&post=315&subd=selfpublishingtoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Self Publishing Taking Over Traditional Publishing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney the Intern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfpublishingtoday.com&blog=2498282&post=313&subd=selfpublishingtoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Publishing Trolls &#8211; Breaking Down Authors One Page at a Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney the Intern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfpublishingtoday.com&blog=2498282&post=307&subd=selfpublishingtoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quick post &#8211; Top ten rules for creating a personal brand &#8211; for self publishers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled on to this from a Tweet by Guy Kawasaki &#8230; Dan Schawabel (the &#8216;personal branding&#8217; guru) put together ten rules for creating your personal &#8216;brand&#8217;. Since a book &#8211; and an author &#8211; need to stand out to be successful, this list make sense for any author self publishing their book&#8230; There are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfpublishingtoday.com&blog=2498282&post=296&subd=selfpublishingtoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Nelson gets into the self publishing game</title>
		<link>http://selfpublishingtoday.com/2009/10/13/thomas-nelson-gets-into-the-self-publishing-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What an odd juxtaposition of traditional publisher and self publisher &#8211; 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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfpublishingtoday.com&blog=2498282&post=293&subd=selfpublishingtoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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