The following guest post is written by Laura Carruba, certified Librarian. (Seriously, she comes from a family of librarians.) We got to talking about getting books into libraries, […]
business of writing / self-publishing
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Are You The Gatekeeper – A Guest Post by Neal Litherland
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digital publishing / self-publishing / smashwords
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Measure Twice, Register For an ISBN Once (and Where Bowker’s Data Reveals A Surprising Correlation About Smashwords)
If you’re part of the online “indie publishing” community, you’re probably hearing that Smashwords is the #1 producer of Indie eBooks in the US. This claim is… questionable… […]
digital publishing / self-publishing
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The Strange Stuff You Have To Watch For In Contracts
In a rather lengthy comment thread about a new eBook distributor, some elements of their contract came up as … problematic. It’s the same sorts of things that […]
publishing / self-publishing
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The Rules of Book Design Are Merely Guidelines: Here’s Why
I am still learning all of this publishing stuff. This was recently driven home while laying out the print version of What Fates Impose. I had read some […]
publishing / self-publishing
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What Size Should Your Print Books Be?
Pal and author Justin Swapp (author of The Codex stories from The Crimson Pact) asked me a very pertinent question last weekend: How do you choose the size […]