From the monthly archives:

June 2010

Book Design: 8 Solutions to the Text Break Dilemma

June 30, 2010 14 comments
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Book designers use various typographic designs to solve the dilemma of making good-looking pages with text breaks. Here are 8 Solutions that use typographic ornaments, pictographs, bullets and regular type characters, each of which gives a different color to the page.

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Storyist Software Offers Easy ePub to Self-Publishers

June 29, 2010 27 comments
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Storyist Software Offers Easy ePub to Self-Publishers who can do a minimal amount of formatting. This opens up an almost instant ability to publish iBooks. The ePub files generated by Storyist are the ones needed for submission to iBookstore and for use on many eReaders.

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How Authors Can Sell More Books with Article Marketing: Sourcing Content

June 28, 2010 4 comments
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Article Marketing is a great way for authors to find more readers in their niche, to gather community around their works, and to sell more books. In Part 3 of this series, we look at 10 sources for content that can be re-puposed for use in article marketing efforts.

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This Week in the Blogs, June 20 – 26, 2010

June 27, 2010 2 comments
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Great links for writers and self-publishers June 20-26, 2010 including articles from Henry Baum, Mike Cane, Matt Cheuvront, Piotr Kowalczyk and Penny Sansevieri on topics of interest to authors and publishers.

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Shipping

June 26, 2010 1 comment
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Shipping, in Seth Godin’s work, is taking a chance by actually putting something unique, something of yourself “out the door.” This is what we do in self-publishing. And the more true it is, the more risky it seems, and the more resistance we have to overcome to “ship” the book.

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