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1000 Words

October 9, 2010 10 comments
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Is a Picture Worth 1000 Words? A picture and one thousand words are put together in an attempt to recapture a moment in time.

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How Public Domain Publishing Can Grow Your Business

May 21, 2010 9 comments
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One way self-publishers can increase their product line without having to write more books is by finding public domain books to reprint that are complementary to their topic and appeal to the same market.

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How I Sold 10,000 Copies of My Self-Published Book

December 21, 2009 16 comments

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 [...]

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Publishing Timeline: 6. Globe Press Books and the Conscious Arts Book Society

December 15, 2009 14 comments

This is the sixth in a series describing my Publishing Timeline; the events, experiences and occupations that have somehow shaped my business life up until today. In the late 1980s Jill and I met someone who would change my course in the publishing industry: Felix Morrow. Felix had had a long career as a writer [...]

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Do Authors Actually Read Publishing Contracts?

December 14, 2009 11 comments

This Sunday’s New York Times carried a story on the front page citing a letter sent on Friday by Random House to literary agents. The letter asserted that they (Random) hold any and all e-book rights to books they have under contract, regardless of the date of the original contract (many of which were signed [...]

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