Case Study: The Sea Captain’s Odyssey by Marvin Shepherd Design Brief: The author retired after a long career as a safety engineer and a clinical engineer at the University of California Medical Center. Marv had a connection to the Buhne family of Eureka from...
Lightning Source, Inc., the print on demand supplier that’s a division of Ingram Book Company, is arguably the biggest supplier of digital books to the publishing trade. They are used by many traditional publishers, and by competitive self-publishers who want to...
Ed: Trim sizes in this post were updated on January 30, 2015. As soon as you get serious about self-publishing a book, you are confronted with the choice of what size your book ought to be. For instance, if you want to get a price on how much a book will cost to...
Soon there will be another meeting of the indie publishing group I attend nearby. The first hour will be for Q & A. At least one-third of the attendees will be new to the meeting. One of the first questions will be about print-on-demand—digital printing...
Do you know “new media” marketer Chris Brogan? Chris is an incredibly bright guy and a long-time blogger who blogged a book that went on to become a New York Times bestseller. I was listening to an audio that Chris did for the Third Tribe community and I...