by Joel Friedlander | May 20, 2010 | Legal Issues, Self-Publishing, Social Media, Writing
What’s more difficult to negotiate than print-to-epub conversions? Trickier than a multi-level index? Thornier than translating “tasteful nudes” into Mandarin? Rights. Intellectual property. Your copyright. Foreign rights sales. But most of all,...
by Joel Friedlander | May 19, 2010 | Interviews, Self-Publishing
Today I’m pleased to have an interview with Andy Weissberg of R. R. Bowker. Bowker is a central player in the entire book industry due to the company’s status as the U.S. Agency of the International Standard Book Numbering Convention, as approved by the...
by Joel Friedlander | May 6, 2010 | Book Design, Interior Design
Let me tell you a story. One day long ago a couple of engineers sat around putting together the first piece of software that would help people lay out documents and do the work of graphic designers, right from their own desktop computer. Do you think these engineers...
by Joel Friedlander | May 3, 2010 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
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...
by Joel Friedlander | Apr 16, 2010 | Self-Publishing
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...
