by Joel Friedlander | Jun 11, 2011 | Editorial, Legal Issues, Self-Publishing
This week I’m answering several questions about copyrighted images and using them in your books. These are questions that came from a blog reader about a book that’s she helping publish for a nonprofit. I do digress at one point to tell a copyright story...
by Joel Friedlander | Dec 22, 2010 | Legal Issues, Self-Publishing
Ed: I’m off for the holiday, and I hope you’re enjoying it with your family and friends. I’ll be back on Sunday with the next installment of Self Publishing: Carnival of the Indies. It looks to be a good one, hope to see you there. And thanks for...
by Joel Friedlander | Nov 12, 2010 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
Late last summer I sat in my car at in the parking lot of the gym I go to, just ten minutes from my house. Although it was hot, I couldn’t leave the car. I was listening to the audio of an ebook called The Blog Profits Blueprint by Yaro Starak. I had been...
by Joel Friedlander | Aug 5, 2010 | Legal Issues, Self-Publishing
In my recent blog redesign I added the “Start Here” categories on the left sidebar to make it easier to find articles with basic information about self-publishing. Each introduces a stage on the journey to publication with links from the archives of...
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,...