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A Quick Lesson About Publishers, Imprints, CreateSpace, and Bowker

by Joel Friedlander on February 9, 2015 139 Comments

A Quick Lesson About Publishers, Imprints, CreateSpace, and Bowker explains how to deal with imprint names

Filed Under: Self-Publishing Tagged With: Bowker, CreateSpace, Imprint, ISBN, metadata, publisher, self publishing

Playtime with Amazon’s Search Engine and Selling Prompts

by Jason Matthews on July 30, 2014 21 Comments

Playtime with Amazon’s Search Engine and Selling Prompts by Jason Matthews explains how employing keywords, individual words or short phrases that can be part of your title, subtitle, categories, and more can help readers find your book.

Filed Under: Contributing Writers, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Amazon, Jason Matthews, keywords, metadata, selling prompts

Ascent of the Metadata

by Joel Friedlander on October 2, 2013 19 Comments

Ascent of the Metadata describes how metadata has become more prevalent and a subject of discussion as digitization continues

Filed Under: Editorial, Marketing, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book marketing, Edward Snowden, keywords, metadata, NSA, SEO, Thad McIlroy

How Searchable are Your Book’s Title and Subtitle?

by Joel Friedlander on September 13, 2013 24 Comments

How Searchable are Your Book’s Title and Subtitle? by K.M. Weiland discusses the search implications of keyword use in metadata and book titles and subtitles

Filed Under: Guest Posts, Marketing Tagged With: book marketing, indie author, K.M. Weiland, metadata, self publishing, SEO

Self-Publishing Basics: Introduction to Metadata

by Joel Friedlander on May 2, 2012 34 Comments

Self-Publishing Basics: Introduction to Metadata for beginning book publishers along with a 5-step process for dealing with your book’s metadata

Filed Under: Editorial, Self Publishing Basics, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book publishing, cataloging, CreateSpace, metadata, search, self-publish a book

Discoverability: Key to the e-Bookstore

by Joel Friedlander on December 8, 2011 17 Comments

Discoverability: Key to the e-Bookstore describes how searching an e-retailer is constructing a virtual bookstore shelf

Filed Under: Self-Publishing Tagged With: bookstore, discoverability, metadata, publishing a boook, self publishing

Video: Bowker Publisher Setup and ISBN

by Joel Friedlander on November 22, 2011 15 Comments

Video: Bowker Publisher Setup and ISBN that shows in brief the account setup and ISBN purchase at myidentifiers.com

Filed Under: Self-Publishing, Training, Video Tagged With: Bowker, ISBN, metadata, MyIdentifiers.com, publishing a book, self publishing, training, video

Metadata for Self-Publishers, Part 1

by Joel Friedlander on June 21, 2011 15 Comments

Metadata for Self-Publishers, Part 1: The concept of metadata, how metadata uses keywords and information about the book to make it discoverable to searchers

Filed Under: Marketing, Self-Publishing Tagged With: books in print, BowkerLink, discoverability, Dublin Core, metadata, publish a book, self publishing

How to Set Up Your Book on Bowkerlink for Books in Print

by Joel Friedlander on February 22, 2011 22 Comments

How to Set Up Your Book on Bowkerlink for Books in Print and the importance of metadata to make your book discoverable by search engines

Filed Under: Editorial, Self Publishing Basics, Self-Publishing, Writing Tagged With: books in print, Bowker, BowkerLink, Dublin Core, ISBN, metadata, self-publish a book

5 Minutes to Google (Profile) Fame

by Joel Friedlander on October 19, 2010 2 Comments

5 Minutes to Google (Profile) Fame. Why to have a Google profile, how to set one up, and what they may mean in the digital future. Includes screenshots and examples.

Filed Under: Self-Publishing, Social Media Tagged With: Google profile, metadata, self publishing, SEO, social media

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