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February 2010

Less Expensive, Bite-Sized, Available for Take-Out: The Book of the Future

February 17, 2010 4 comments

Mark Barrett over on Ditchwalk, is trying to figure out the epub and pdf translation processes from the point of view of an author who wants to move his work into the public sphere. When authors start having to roll up their sleeves and get under the hood of translation software, learning the ins and [...]

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Working With Blurb.com for Color Books

February 16, 2010 9 comments

I’m working on a lovely book of inspirational verse and color photographs, and in order to proof the book and get some Advance Reader Copies, I’m using Blurb.com, who specializes in color books just like this. I’ve seen books from Blurb before, and they look quite good considering they are digital. They can’t compare directly [...]

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The New Marketing: Carol White at BAIPA

February 15, 2010 9 comments

Our speaker at the Saturday meeting of the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association was Carol White, of Carol White, Marketing Maven. Carol wrote a presentation specifically for BAIPA, about challenges and opportunities in marketing self-published books. The presentation was very full, with numerous slides and bullet lists, and even handouts. I’m going to skim over [...]

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This Week in the Blogs: February 8-14, 2010

February 14, 2010 7 comments

Some interesting reading this week. Enjoy! Pablo Defendini on The New Sleekness On Production. “It absolutely boggles my mind that, at this late stage in the game, publishers still consider themselves somehow exempt from the repercussions of the digital revolution.” JA Konrath on A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing You Can Pry My Ebooks From My [...]

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At the BAIPA Meeting: Questions and Answers

February 13, 2010 7 comments

I wasn’t sure what kind of turnout we would have at today’s monthly meeting of the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association. After all, just 20 minutes away the San Francisco Writer’s Conference was a sell-out, so we had schedule conflict. But the meeting was one of our biggest of the year, with many new faces. [...]

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