by Joel Friedlander | Jun 18, 2011 | Book Production, Self-Publishing
Who Owns Your Book Files? This week we’re talking about the ownership of your book files. I deal with this constantly with authors who have gone the subsidy publishing route. I don’t hide my feelings about this situation in the video. No matter who...
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...
by Joel Friedlander | Nov 3, 2010 | Book Design, Samples, Self-Publishing
Case Study: Courage and Croissants: Inspiring Joyful Living, A Story and Life Guidebook, by Suzanne Saxe-Roux, Ed.D. and Jean P. Roux, Ph.D. Design brief: Create a hybrid book design for a manuscript that is two-thirds narrative, and one-third a sort of self-help...
by Joel Friedlander | May 3, 2010 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
Yesterday’s New York Times Magazine had a brief and cheery write up by Virginia Heffernan in a section called The Medium. Heffernan uses the release of last year’s numbers of books published to contrast the self-publishers of old, disrespected by the...
by Joel Friedlander | Apr 28, 2010 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
A few weeks ago Smashwords made it possible to get self-published books into Apple’s iBookstore for sale on the iPad, and from what I read there are already several thousand Smashwords titles in the iBookstore. Some of Apple’s approved content aggregators...