One of the most interesting stories in Dan Poynter’s Self-Publishing Manual is how he became a book publisher. As an avid parachute jumper, Dan looked for but could not find a good basic manual for the new people coming into his sport. Eventually he wrote one and sold it to other parachuting clubs.
But what was [...]
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Marketing
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 [...]
It’s not a small thing to write a book, to actually complete the project. Maybe it’s a novel you’ve worked on for years, going through revision after revision to polish it to perfection. Or perhaps you’ve put together a book of lessons you’ve drawn from your life, or a detailed history of your hometown.
You’ve had [...]
In an article late Friday night, the New York Times reported that “Amazon Pulls Macmillan Books Over E-Book Price Disagreement.”
Originally reported by Venture Beat, Friday evening books from Macmillan publishers have simply disappeared from Amazon’s virtual shelves. Macmillan is a massive publisher, one of the largest in the country.
Apparently Amazon and Macmillan have been in [...]
Jill and I were sitting around talking about friends and people we knew. I was trying to explain how the system of personality types we were studying was actually complex enough to explain all the differences we were observing in our friends.
At one point Jill said to me, “How are people like me—new to this [...]
