by Joel Friedlander | Sep 19, 2010 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
As we glide toward fall, plans turn to ramping up publishing and promotion plans. The holidays aren’t far away, and projects we wanted to finish in 2010 are looking at final deadlines as the months dwindle away. It’s the second half of September, and a few...
by Joel Friedlander | Jul 28, 2010 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
In the early days of modern self-publishing, there were two books most self-publishers lived by: The Self-Publishing Manual by Dan Poynter, and The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing by Marilyn and Tom Ross. While Poynter has continued to update his book, now in its...
by Joel Friedlander | Apr 22, 2010 | Self-Publishing
I talk to writers every week who are thinking about self-publishing. It’s a major step, and each person takes that step in their own way. People seem to be most influenced by their own professional background, and sometimes by knowing someone who published a...
by Joel Friedlander | Apr 15, 2010 | Marketing, Self-Publishing
Soon after the iPhone was introduced, Apple rolled out its extension of the wildly successful iTunes store, the App store. The easy and cheap availability of thousands of apps, combined with the groundbreaking touchscreen interface of the iPhone, created a wave of e...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 9, 2010 | Book Design, Writing
I’ve been talking off and on for the last few months about the eventual demise of the book as the primary conveyer of what we probably should start calling “text.” When E.M. Ginger said that we probably haven’t seen a book on an e-Reader, and...
