by Joel Friedlander | Sep 11, 2010 | E-Books & Readers, Marketing
It depends on the context. What’s your frame of reference? Perception is reality. However you want to say it, every day we we walk through worlds that are right next to each other yet seem to never touch. Kindle—The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking This is...
by Joel Friedlander | Aug 31, 2010 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
Whenever a discussion about self-publishing gets heated, you can be sure someone will say, “If we let just anybody publish a book, soon we’ll be buried in bad, unedited books and all the good ones will be lost in a sea of crap!” There were over...
by Joel Friedlander | Aug 24, 2010 | E-Books & Readers, 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 | Jan 9, 2010 | Self-Publishing, Writing
Today was the regular month meeting of the (San Francisco) Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA). As usual the meeting was well attended, many people came for the first time, there was a lot of lively networking going on and people seem to have been...
by Joel Friedlander | Dec 31, 2009 | Social Media, Writing
It’s been an eventful year for publishing, and I’m sure we’ll be seeing more of the same in 2010. Since I started blogging this fall nothing has impressed me more than the people I’ve met through blogs, social media, and in the publishing...