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[…]You take on the literary mainstream in your book of essays, Break Every Rule, making a plea to the literary establishment “not to discard the canon, but enlarge it . . . . to acknowledge, for starters, the thousand refracted, disparate beauties out there.” But—and this is the fault of big-house publishers as much as Harold Bloom et fils,
Prime Suspect: The New Amazon Upgrade Program
Amazon Public Notes look like they are taking a turn that only a detective can figure out.
I blogged in February about the Great News of Amazon adding a new feature to their eBooks called Public Notes in which readers could share highlights and notes with other readers. In that blog, I detailed some areas I thought were potential high benefit areas.
Public Notes have caught on with Kindle 3 users as more and more readers add their ideas and thoughts. If I follow the instructions, I can add my own notes as […]
What a difference a decade makes. By the time I resigned in 2009, we were […]
After realizing I wouldn’t be a NYT bestseller by the end of my first month, I gave myself a more modest goal: get to the point where I’m selling 1,000 ebooks a month by this time next year.
As it happens, that point came in May, my fifth full month as an indie author. I […]
The prospects for an explosion in the ebook market are growing every day. Once traditional publishers realize the ebook-only market is a huge opportunity, they will embrace it and they will realize that they had a pot of gold right in front of them all the time.
Current Publishing – Are things panning out with ebooks?
Traditional book publishing is built on speculation and profit predictions. They control the system and the popular authors. They have been sitting at the end of the rainbow for a very long time.
Then along comes this ebook thing with a slick delivery system […]
People are impressed with anyone who has completed the task of writing a whole book. There are thousands, if not millions, of people who have sat down to a keyboard to start writing a book but never finished it.
The first hurdle that most encounter is what I call the Forty-Page Block. It’s not always page forty. Sometimes it’s page twenty-five or page one hundred and twenty-five. Whichever page number it is, at some point there’s a block that separates the authors from the wannabes.
At this hurdle, many writers will simply throw in the towel […]
A pretty huge self-publishing story was revealed yesterday regarding the blog “A Gay Girl from Damascus” – a blog about the Arab uprising from the perspective of a gay woman in Damascus, Syria. Last week she went missing – reportedly kidnapped. A picture was reported along with the story who turned out to be a non-Syrian woman in London, who was understandably troubled.
And finally it was revealed that the gay girl in Damascus is actually a married guy in Scotland. And it also turns out to be a significant self-publishing story with implications for how blogs are read […]
Originally published on The Nerd Connection, my home site.
Over Memorial Day Weekend, I was privileged to attend the Balticon Convention with its many wonderful panels and panelists. I went to a panel that included Tan Nguyen and GK Parish Philp, the founders of BackMyBook.com [formerly of DivX]. ARealGirl, and Scott Sigler filled up the rest of the panel as they all have a lot of book branding expertise.
Unlike the first panel I have blogged about, this panel was all about books and branding yourself in relation to the book you are selling. The first panel [[…]