by Joel Friedlander | May 17, 2011 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
This past weekend we had our monthly meeting of the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA). The featured speaker was Mark Coker, founder and CEO of Smashwords.com, the independent e-book distributor. Even before Mark got started on his presentation, even...
by Joel Friedlander | Apr 25, 2011 | E-Books & Readers, Marketing, Self-Publishing
Pricing of e-books is a constant source of discussion online, and we’ve seen the rebellions in the Kindle store when publishers were allowed to start setting their own prices last year. Some books went up in price, as traditional publishers tried to bring e-book...
by Joel Friedlander | Apr 18, 2011 | E-Books & Readers
It seems like everywhere I look these days, people are talking about e-books. Have you noticed that too? Just this week I ran an article on my blog about how e-books sold more copies in February than any other trade book format. That’s impressive! It was only a...
by Joel Friedlander | Apr 14, 2011 | Self-Publishing
Good news: I was invited to speak to a group of people involved with self-publishing that meets at the Mechanic’s Institute Library on Post Street in downtown San Francisco. I was happy to accept and took the opportunity to meet up with my friend Paula...
by Joel Friedlander | Apr 12, 2011 | E-Books & Readers
It hardly seems possible that it’s been a year since all the mystery surrounding Apple’s announcement of the iPad was finally made real, and troops of people began filing out of Apple stores everywhere carrying little white bags full of the tablets. After...