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Self-Publishing News You Can Use: Changes

by Joel Friedlander on April 16, 2011 7 Comments

Self-Publishing News You Can Use: Changes in products, in companies, and in the buying habits of book buyers and the future of book publishing

Filed Under: Book Production, E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing Tagged With: AAP, Association of American Publishers, Cisco Systems, Flip Camera, independent publishing, publish a book, self publishing

BAIPA 2011 Get Published! Institute with Brian Jud

by Joel Friedlander on March 10, 2011 2 Comments

This weekend is the annual all-day workshop run by the (San Francisco) Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA). This year the event has moved out of Marin County, where it has traditionally been held, to Nile Hall in Preservation Park, part of Oakland, across the bay. Occupying two blocks in the heart of downtown Oakland, […]

Filed Under: Self-Publishing, Social Media Tagged With: BAIPA, Brian Jud, Get Published! Institute, independent publishing, Jim Horan, Pete Masterson, publish a book, publishing workshop, self publishing

This Week in the Blogs, November 28 – December 4, 2010

by Joel Friedlander on December 5, 2010 3 Comments

This Week in the Self-Publishing Blogs, November 28 – December 4, 2010 including articles by Penny Sansevieri, Joanna Penn, Mick Rooney and others.

Filed Under: Self-Publishing, Social Media Tagged With: author platform, book marketing, independent publishing, Joanna Penn, Mick Rooney, Penny Sansevieri, publish a book, self publishing, Shiloh Walker, Thomas Umstattd

26 Ways to Win at Self-Publishing

by Joel Friedlander on May 5, 2010 71 Comments

The secret is this: when you publish your own book, you get to decide what winning looks like, how success feels. You’ve taken back control of your writing destiny. You know winning comes in many ways, in many small moments, and you can finally relax and savor them.

Filed Under: Self-Publishing Tagged With: independent publishing, publish a book, self publishing

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