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3 Ways For Self-Publishers to Break Into the Public Library Market

by Joel Friedlander on April 6, 2015 25 Comments

When you’re publishing your own books easy to get so busy and wrapped up in details that you often miss book marketing opportunities along the way. For instance, I see lots of indie authors publishing books that would be great additions to public libraries. Have these authors tried to alert librarians—a huge group of professional […]

Filed Under: Marketing, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book marketing, IBPA, Library Journal, public library, Publishers Weekly, Quality Books, self publishing, Self-e

Indie Business Memoir Scores Major Reviews

by Joel Friedlander on September 23, 2009 4 Comments

I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area with my wife and infant son in 1993. We were glad to escape the winters in New York, and had many friends in the area. But leaving home can be hard in other ways. Growing up in the Bronx and, later, lower Westchester, we were accustomed to […]

Filed Under: Book Design, Book Reviews, Cover Design, Marketing Tagged With: Library Journal, Noah Alper, Noah's Bagels, Publishers Weekly, Wolfeboro Press

Self Publishing Basics: How to Create Your ARC Cover

by Joel Friedlander on September 21, 2009 27 Comments

Years ago I used to buy books at a famous bookstore in downtown New York City, in the old book selling district. This bookstore was famous for the range of subjects it carried, its steady inflow of new books, and the lively and sometimes erudite people you could meet browsing the narrow aisles looking for […]

Filed Under: Book Design, Book Reviews, Cover Design, Marketing, Self-Publishing Tagged With: ARC, bound galleys, Library Journal, prepublication reviews, Publishers Weekly, SPAN

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