by Joel Friedlander | May 9, 2011 | Self-Publishing
This looks like the award time of the year. Last week we got the Ben Franklin Award Finalist lists, now we have the Bay Area Independent Publishers Associaion (BAIPA) 2011 Book Awards. From the official announcement: The 2011 BAIPA book award judging sheets have all...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 10, 2011 | E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing
[Approximate reading time: 4:07] Questions from readers and clients are where I find out what is causing the most confusion for self-publishers. Lately, one area has dominated the questions I’ve been getting: ebooks. Lots of people have read about the success...
by Joel Friedlander | May 18, 2010 | Marketing, Self-Publishing
Aggregators—people or companies who gather material into a whole for another purpose, or as representatives of all the parts of the whole—are in new prominence. Particularly with Apple’s iBookstore, a new retail location of incredible potential. But...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 9, 2010 | Book Design, Writing
I’ve been talking off and on for the last few months about the eventual demise of the book as the primary conveyer of what we probably should start calling “text.” When E.M. Ginger said that we probably haven’t seen a book on an e-Reader, and...
by Joel Friedlander | Oct 22, 2009 | Book Construction Blueprint, Book Design, Book Production, Cover Design, Self Publishing Basics
Self-publishers know that they must have an ISBN for their book if they want to sell through retail channels like bookstores. The ISBN not only identifies the publisher, the language group of the country the book is published in, and the specific title, it is also...
