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No Matter the Format, Your Book Is Your Calling Card
Traditional media – newspapers, for example – are reluctant to report good news about self-publishing. Even as more writers self-publish, the conglomerates that run media outlets would rather report on...
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Looking Ahead to the Future of Books and Publishing
Traditional reporting would have you believe that sales of e-books are plateauing. According to a New York Times article published last September, “E-book sales fell by 10% in the first five months of...
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Meeting the Demands of a New Book Marketplace
As I mentioned in our last post, the way books are read, marketed and bought has changed. There’s no going back to paper alone, despite what some traditionalists wish. To meet the demands of the new...
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Publishers Can Embrace a New Age of Authors
As I mentioned in our last post, in order to meet the demands of the new marketplace, both writers (including entrepreneurs who wish to become bestselling authors), and publishers, need to change the...
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The Entrepreneurial Author
The new picture of the publishing world, one where just about anyone can upload a book, assumes that authors – of either nonfiction or fiction – see themselves not only as creators in today’s...
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The Author as Publisher
Publishers are taking advantage of this new marketplace where authors are more entrepreneurial, but more and more authors who are self-published are becoming publishers in their own right. This is a...
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The Author Creates Opportunity
Today’s marketplace actually favors a self-published author who has an entrepreneurial streak. As more people read news online, and as print journalism begins to fade (faster than you might expect),...
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The Nimble Author in a New Age of Publishing
As I mentioned in my last post, entrepreneurs are creators in the world of business, and today’s authors are also more and more entrepreneurs. Authors today aren’t content to let a literary agent...
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The Nimble Author in a New Age of Publishing
As I mentioned in my last post, entrepreneurs are creators in the world of business, and today’s authors are also more and more entrepreneurs. Authors today aren’t content to let a literary agent...
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Are You Giving Your Customers The Dorothy Mantooth Treatment?
I will smash your face into a car windshield, and then take your mother, Dorothy Mantooth, out for a nice seafood dinner and never call her again. ~ Champ Kind from the movie Anchorman I finally got...
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