Henry Baum | Self-Publishing Review

About Henry Baum

Author of three self-published novels and one traditionally published (Soft Skull Press, Canongate, and Hachette Littératures). Recipient of Best Fiction at the DIY Book Festival, the Gold IPPY Award for Visionary Fiction, and the Hollywood Book Festival Grand Prize. He lives with his wife Cate Baum in Spain. He's the founder of SPR.

New Kindle Plugin for Adobe InDesign

Amazon has released a new plugin for Adobe’s InDesign making importing high-quality Kindle files much easier. Via EbookNewser:

The new plugin tool will let publishers convert Adobe InDesign files directly into Kindle books. Designers and publishers can take existing print-ready files and create Kindle books using the tool.

The eBook version will maintain the font styling, text alignment and paragraph alignment of a print book’s design. In addition, designers can use the tool to add links within the book.

Adobe InDesign already has the ability to export for ePub. See How to guides here. There were complaints about […]

Henry Baum2011-10-08T17:10:19+02:00October 4th, 2010|Categories: Resources|

Indie Reader Selects

Take a look at Indie Reader Selects.

IndieReader Selects will review submitted indie books (with same requirements as IR: book must be bound and have a valid ISBN). Following review, books will be posted in a database (searchable by zip, author name and book category) for subsequent placement in independent bookstores. These reviews will be made available to booksellers, looking to provide their customers with unique titles, to support indie authors and to differentiate themselves from the big box stores. Additionally, booksellers who decide to stock indie books will be able to work out a customized merchandising program with

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Henry Baum2011-10-08T17:22:48+02:00September 21st, 2010|Categories: Resources|

The Giant’s Fence by Michael Jacobson

This is without a doubt the most unique book reviewed here. Michael Jacobson is at the forefront of asemic writing. What’s asemic writing? A work that is a collection of symbols totally invented by the author. We know the symbol “F” to represent the “ef” sound, but really F is just a representationof that sound. Asemic writing takes this premise and invents a totally new language – open entirely to reader interpretation. This means both that no two asemic books are the same and each experience reading it is different.

It is a style of writing with a long history[…]

Henry Baum2011-10-08T17:23:05+02:00September 17th, 2010|Categories: Book Reviews|

New Self-Publishing Contest from Wattpad/Shelf Unbound

Via a press release from Wattpad:

Wattpad, the world’s most popular eBook community, and Shelf Unbound indie book review magazine announce the launch of the Wattpad + Shelf Unbound Writing Competition for self‐published authors. The competition is open to any self‐published writer who has an active Wattpad account (go to www.wattpad.com/contests for further details). The winner, as selected by Shelf Unbound editors, will have their work published and promoted on Wattpad and featured in an upcoming issue of Shelf Unbound. Entries may be submitted through January 31, 2011.

“Shelf Unbound magazine features the best of small press,

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Henry Baum2017-03-24T06:53:57+02:00September 15th, 2010|Categories: News|

Desktop Manufacturing: 3-D Printing

Holy moly. Recently I wrote a post called Self-Publishing is the Future of Everything about how print on demand is going to be a major part of the future. Someone joked on Twitter, “Even brain surgery?” My half-joking reply was that in the future you’ll plug into the neural internet and brain surgeons will work from a distance. That’s a sci-fi concept, but we’re increasingly entering a sci-fi world. Just watch this video – it’s an incredible example of how print on demand via something that is first designed on a computer will be changing our world.

From the New […]

Henry Baum2011-10-08T17:24:30+02:00September 14th, 2010|Categories: News|

Mark Coker Responds to Amazon’s Delisting Policy

This post about getting delisted on Amazon is getting cluttered with new information, and I want to call attention to Mark Coker’s comment here. A short recap: my novel was delisted from the Amazon Kindle on Saturday because the price on Kobo (89 cents) is below the price that Amazon allows authors to set – which is 99 cents. The book is distributed to Kobo via Smashwords premium distribution. Instead of Amazon setting my price at 88 cents, their policy is to remove the buy button entirely.

I want to reiterate: this is not Smashwords fault. I had set […]

Henry Baum2011-10-08T16:31:27+02:00September 3rd, 2010|Categories: Publisher Reviews|

Self-Publishing is the Future of Everything

I have a daughter. Last night we were playing around with the site GirlSense.com. On the site you can design different fashions and accessories, as well as buy the fashion creations of other users. I’ve seen other avatar makers in the past, but the amount of detail you can do on these clothes, bags, shoes, etc. is pretty amazing.

And it occurred to me that this will be the future of fashion. Visions of the future often put people in identical silver jumpsuits, as if we’ve “gotten over” our obsession with outward appearances. But fashion is a creative pursuit. […]

Henry Baum2011-10-08T17:11:32+02:00August 31st, 2010|Categories: Features|

My Day on Kindle Nation

This past Saturday, I was a sponsored book on Kindle Nation – something I wholeheartedly recommend. It costs $69 for one-day sponsorship, with other options:

Option 2 – Free Kindle Nation Short Excerpt Email Sponsorship – 1 Day:
Free Kindle Nation Shorts excerpt and sponsorship to be emailed to 5,500 opt-in free email subscribers and pushed directly via Whispernet to over 6,000 Kindles owned by paid subscribers. It’s your choice whether to sponsor another author’s Free Kindle Nation Short or your own, but the most powerful option is to sponsor your own.
Option 3 – Free Book Alert Sponsorship –

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Henry Baum2011-10-08T17:18:21+02:00August 30th, 2010|Categories: Publisher Reviews|