e-Book Cover Design Awards, August 2011 including 40 book covers in fiction and nonfiction, and winners by Andy Fielding and Pentakis Dodecahedron

Joel Friedlander
This Week in the Blogs, September 4 – 10, 2011
Blogs for Self-Publishers for September 4 – September 10, 2011 including articles by Dean Wesley Smith, L. Frank Turovich, Sue Collier, James Moushon and more
Amazon and Lightning Source: The End of an Era?
Amazon and Lightning Source: The End of an Era? With the change in how Amazon handles print on demand books, publishers are forced to adjust
Cory Doctorow and the Reality of Bookselling
Cory Doctorow and the Reality of Bookselling in which his recent article in Locus Magazine Online is discussed along with the traits of self-publishing authors
e-Book Cover Design Awards Information
e-book-cover-design-awards-coming including scheduling and judging criteria, as well as the benefits of running contests on your blog
The 40k Books Keyword Interview on The Future of the Book
The 40k Books Keyword Interview on The Future of Books including responses to keywords like “ebook” and “indie” and “innovation”
How to Reinvent a Book with a New Book Cover
Case Study: How to Reinvent a Book with a New Book Cover showing how a self-published book can be transformed by re-designing the book cover
This Week in the Blogs, August 28 – September 3, 2011
Blogs for Self-Publishers for August 28 – September 3, 2011 including Dan Blank, Chuck Wendig, Nathan Bransford, Kristen Lamb and Judith Briles
19 Ways to Get More Readers for Your Author Blog
Author blogs are an intrinsic part of your author platform. You can get more readers for your blog. You may have read many of these ideas before, but let me ask you: How many have you done in the last 30 days? Blogging is a marathon, not a sprint. You are building a...
5 Great Fonts for Book Covers
5 Great Fonts for Book Covers including ChunkFive, League Gothic, Baskerville, Franchise and Trajan
Casewrap Books in Berkeley: Inspiration for Self-Publishers
Casewrap Books in Berkeley: Inspiration for Self-Publishers shows numerous examples of this binding style and explains why more self-publishers should use it
Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #11
Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #11 including Giuseppe Graneiri, Chris Brogan and Jeff Bennington