By David Kudler Distributor/aggregator PublishDrive has shifted completely to a subscription-based model for all new accounts. Up until this month, the New York-based company offered both monthly subscriptions — where all royalties received from retailers were passed...
By Shelley Sturgeon The blog is taking a mini break but please check out the links below for lots of great reading about all things self-publishing. You can find our post archives here. Past issues of our blog carnival, Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies, can be...
By Joel Friedlander It was late in the fall in 2009 that it all started. Book publishing had changed dramatically in the 5 years leading up to that point. While I was off doing other things, Ingram introduced print on demand technology that promised to transform the...
By Shelley Sturgeon Here at The Book Designer, we are blessed with amazing contributing writers and, of course, YOU, our wonderful readers! In the January tradition of reviewing the previous year’s accomplishments, today I’d like to invite you to take a...
By David Kudler Or, How to Use Your Ebooks as Your Best Marketing Platform When I first started writing for TheBookDesigner.com, social media were still — for some folks — a new idea. They’re now at the heart of global communication, and more to the point for us as...
