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Self-Publishing: Are We There Yet?

May 3, 2010 35 comments
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Yesterday’s New York Times Magazine had a brief and cheery write up by Virginia Heffernan in a section called The Medium. Heffernan uses the release of last year’s numbers of books published to contrast the self-publishers of old, disrespected by the marketplace for their odd, not “booky” books, with the situation today. I also covered [...]

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Book Publishing Numbers That Tell A Story

April 16, 2010 7 comments

This was the headline in a news report by Jim Milliot in Publishers Weekly yesterday: Self-Published Titles Topped 764,000 in 2009 as Traditional Output Dipped Here’s the intro to the story: A staggering 764,448 titles were produced in 2009 by self-publishers and micro-niche publishers, according to statistics released this morning by R.R. Bowker. The number [...]

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Indie Business Memoir Scores Major Reviews

September 23, 2009 4 comments

I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area with my wife and infant son in 1993. We were glad to escape the winters in New York, and had many friends in the area. But leaving home can be hard in other ways. Growing up in the Bronx and, later, lower Westchester, we were accustomed to [...]

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Self Publishing Basics: How to Create Your ARC Cover

September 21, 2009 10 comments

Years ago I used to buy books at a famous bookstore in downtown New York City, in the old book selling district. This bookstore was famous for the range of subjects it carried, its steady inflow of new books, and the lively and sometimes erudite people you could meet browsing the narrow aisles looking for [...]

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