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Book Review: Show Me About Book Publishing by Judith Briles, Rick Frishman, and John Kremer

by Joel Friedlander on May 18, 2011 3 Comments

Ed: Please see the note at the end of this review for a special offer the authors are making for three days only. Today I’m reviewing a new book on independent book publishing: Show Me About Book Publishing. It’s written by an unusual group of people. The authors are all heavyweights in the independent book […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews, Self-Publishing Tagged With: author platform, book marketing, indie publishing, John Kremer, Judith Briles, Rick Frishman, self publishing, Show Me About Book Publishing

Interview: Sally Collings Talks Book Marketing with TheBookDesigner

by Joel Friedlander on April 21, 2011 5 Comments

Interview: Sally Collings Talks Book Marketing with TheBookDesigner Media and promotion plans help create a virtual tour using blogs, Facebook, Twitter and more

Filed Under: Interviews, Marketing, Video Tagged With: blog tour, book marketing, indie publishing, interview, Parenting With Soul, red hill publishing, sally collings, v-tour, virtual tour

2011 BAIPA Get Published! Institute Roundup

by Joel Friedlander on March 14, 2011 14 Comments

2011 BAIPA Get Published! Institute Roundup including talks by Brian Jud, Jim Horan, Lloyd Rich and Jon Tandler, Pete Masterson, Lin Lacombe and others.

Filed Under: Self-Publishing Tagged With: BAIPA, Brian Jud, indie author, indie publishing, Jim Horan, Jon Tandler, Lin Lacombe, Lloyd Rich, Pete Masterson, publish a book, self publishing, Vickie Wieland

Indie Publishing: The Problem With Book Distribution

by Joel Friedlander on February 16, 2011 17 Comments

Indie Publishing: The Problem With Book Distribution and why successful self-publishers use digital delivery and social media marketing.

Filed Under: Book Production, Marketing, Self-Publishing Tagged With: blogging, book distribution, book publishing, content marketing, indie author, indie publishing, self publishing, self-publish a book

Book Design for Self-Publishers: Workflow Overview

by Joel Friedlander on January 25, 2011 7 Comments

Book Design for Self-Publishers: Workflow Overview including three stages: Design, Layout and Production, plus Graphics and Covers

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Book Design, Book Production, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book design, book production, DIY publishing, indie publishing, publish a book, self publishing, workflow

Can Self-Publishing Lead to a Traditional Publishing Contract?

by Joel Friedlander on January 14, 2011 17 Comments

Can Self-Publishing Lead to a Traditional Publishing Contract? Patricia Fry explains how to use self-publishing to land a traditional contract

Filed Under: Self-Publishing, Writing Tagged With: indie publishing, Patricia Fry, print on demand, publish a book, self publishing, traditional publishing

This Week in the Blogs, November 14 – 20, 2010

by Joel Friedlander on November 21, 2010 1 Comment

This Week in the Self-Publishing Blogs, Nov 14 – 20, 2010 including Kevin Sivils, Sue Collier, L.J. Sellers, Suzannah Windsor Freeman, Cheryl Anne Gardner

Filed Under: Self-Publishing, Social Media Tagged With: Cheryl Anne Gardner, indie publishing, Kevin Sivils, L.J. Sellers, self publishing, self-publish, Sue Collier, Suzannah Windsor Freeman

Self-Publishers: What Does It Take to Make A Publishing Company?

by Joel Friedlander on November 5, 2010 10 Comments

Are self-publishers entitled to call themselves publishing companies? Or is this question a distraction from what’s really happening in publishing? The indie spirit in publishing is rendering questions like this less relevant by the day.

Filed Under: Self-Publishing, Social Media Tagged With: Edward Nawotka, indie author, indie publishing, Publishing Perspectives, self publishing

Indie Book Distribution with Publishers Group West

by Joel Friedlander on September 16, 2010 4 Comments

Indie Book Distribution with Publishers Group West, how to work with a distributor and whether authors should partner with publishers, a BAIPA presentation and the regular monthly publishing group meeting

Filed Under: Self-Publishing Tagged With: BAIPA, book distribution, book distributors, indie publishing, Perseus Books, PGW, Publishers Group West, self publishing

Self-Publisher’s Quick Guide to Copyright: A Report

by Joel Friedlander on May 7, 2010 7 Comments

Back when I started this blog I really didn’t know what information would prove to be most useful to today’s self-publishers, or what would be the most popular. A couple of months in, once I had paused long enough to figure out Google’s Analytics program and dig into the numbers a bit, I was pretty […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Legal Issues, Reports, Self-Publishing Tagged With: copyright, copyright myths, how to copyright, indie publishing, self publishers, self publishing, TheBookDesigner newsletter

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