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Metadata for Self-Publishers, Part 1

by Joel Friedlander | Jun 21, 2011 | Marketing, Self-Publishing

Metadata—even the word sounds hard to understand. meta comes from the Greek, and means “above” or “enclosing” Metadata is simply data about data. In other words, metadata is information about your data. You can think of data as being an...

How to Set Up Your Book on Bowkerlink for Books in Print

by Joel Friedlander | Feb 22, 2011 | Editorial, Self Publishing Basics, Self-Publishing, Writing

In the beginning was the word, and the words are what make the book. But soon thereafter, came the metadata—that is, data about the data. When you publish a new book, you have a chance to assign metadata to your book that will travel with descriptions of the...

ISBN for Self-Publishers: Answers to 20 of your Questions

by Joel Friedlander | Mar 17, 2010 | Book Production, Self-Publishing

One of the areas that I get the most questions about is the use of the ISBN, the unique numeric identifier that’s used around the world to identify books. New self-publishers are especially concerned with making sure their books are registered properly, that...
How to Create, Register and List Your New Publishing Company

How to Create, Register and List Your New Publishing Company

by Joel Friedlander | Dec 28, 2009 | Editorial, Self Publishing Basics, Self-Publishing

When an author decides to publish their own book, there are many questions to be answered. It’s the first of these questions about self-publishing I want to address in this article, and that has to do with starting a publishing company. Some authors will decide...
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