by Joel Friedlander | Apr 24, 2011 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
Welcome to this issue of the Carnival of the Indies blog carnival. This issue is for April, 2011. We welcome your submissions on topics related to writing, self-publishing, book design or marketing books. A collection of outstanding articles recently posted to blogs,...
by Joel Friedlander | Mar 23, 2011 | Marketing, Self-Publishing
I’ve been getting them in my email inbox for weeks. As a book designer, you can’t ignore them. The notices from Borders of store closing sales: Store Closing Sale! This Location Only! Huge Savings! Of course, we kept hoping the store in San Rafael...
by Joel Friedlander | Mar 20, 2011 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
I’ve had several books and reports converted to ebook formats recently, and it’s remarkable how each version is different, and shows the mark of the person doing the conversion. Kindle publishing is a big subject this week, and the iPad has extended its...
by Joel Friedlander | Mar 13, 2011 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
World events keep pulling our attention outward, necessities of survival keep it close. When it comes to publishing, there’s good reading this week about how novelists will fare in the new world, ebooks, building your writer platform, selling in the Kindle Store...
by Joel Friedlander | Mar 4, 2011 | Book Design, Cover Design, Self-Publishing
by Will Entrekin I met Will Entrekin on Twitter, and here on my blog where he comments. Will is a novelist and has self-published a number of books. He sent me the cover of a recent collaboration and I asked if he would write about the experience of designing book...