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Independence in The Era of the Aggregators

May 18, 2010 12 comments
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Aggregators—people or companies who gather material into a whole for another purpose, or as representatives of all the parts of the whole—are in new prominence. Particularly with Apple’s iBookstore, a new retail location of incredible potential. But who will sell to the iBookstore? For independent publishers and small presses, Apple has anointed eight companies as [...]

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4 Questions I Ask Myself About E-Books

February 9, 2010 23 comments

I’ve been talking off and on for the last few months about the eventual demise of the book as the primary conveyer of what we probably should start calling “text.” When E.M. Ginger said that we probably haven’t seen a book on an e-Reader, and we may never see one, I had to agree. I [...]

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Self-Publishing Basics: Deciphering the Bookland EAN Bar Code

October 22, 2009 4 comments

Self-publishers know that they must have an ISBN for their book if they want to sell through retail channels like bookstores. The ISBN not only identifies the publisher, the language group of the country the book is published in, and the specific title, it is also used to generate the scannable barcode found on the [...]

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New Opportunities for Self-Publishers

October 14, 2009 2 comments

There have been a series of announcements recently of interest to self-publishers, and the opening of doors is a good sign for the continued growth of the industry. It seems like the drive to become content creators rather than just content consumers, continues to grow. We can thank the advent of print on demand publishing [...]

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