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What’s up with Kobo?

Randall

March 18, 2014

Amazon, Bookstore, business, Kobo, Marketing, Self-publishing

Via: Flickr I sell my books on Kobo. I like Kobo. >Why? Because I’m […]

Author Earnings Hugh Howey Self Publishing Trade Publishing

What kind of reader are you? Big Pub thinks they know.

Randall

March 3, 2014

Amazon, Author Earnings, Big Six, Bookstore, Hugh Howey, Marketing, Self-publishing, The Passive Voice

Via: Flickr This past month we saw the birth of AuthorEarnings, a website created by best-selling author and self-publishing guru Hugh Howey, in trying to expose what kind of money authors, both trade and self published, are really making. […]

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What do bookstores want…and why indie authors should learn to give it to them. Part IV, the final chapter.

Randall

October 2, 2013

Bookstore, business, Lightning Source, Marketing, Self-publishing

Via: Flickr No doubt you’ve heard of Barnes & Noble. Perhaps even Chapters Indigo. Maybe even Waterstones. But have you heard of Dymocks? How about Eason & Son? Crossword Books? These are just […]

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What do bookstores want…and why indie authors should learn to give it to them. Part III

Randall

September 25, 2013

Bookstore, business, Createspace, Lightning Source, Marketing, Metadata, Self-publishing

Via: Flickr Barry Eisler, a well respected name in the self-publishing world, not too long ago said that mass distribution into the bookstores was the only thing that the trade publishing houses had to offer that an indie author […]

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What bookstores want….and why indie authors should learn to give it to them. Part II.

Randall

September 18, 2013

Amazon, Bookstore, business, Createspace, ISBN's, Lightning Source, Metadata, Pricing, Self-publishing

Via: Flickr In part one of this post I mentioned that things had changed regarding bookstores and how they got their product. This is true, and it’s probably the biggest thing to happen to the publishing business this year. But you would think that nobody had heard about […]

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What bookstores want….and why indie authors should learn to give it to them. Part I.

Randall

September 11, 2013

Amazon, Bookstore, business, Createspace, Lightning Source, Pricing, Self-publishing

Via: Flickr I see a lot of indie authors complaining that they can’t get their books into the indie bookstores. They blame it on a number of things. Their book comes from Createspace. The manager refused to even look at it. They told me they had no room for my book. He […]

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How Indie are you?

Randall

March 14, 2013

Advertising, Amazon, Audio Book Producers, Big Six, Bookstore, CoverArt, Createspace, Dean Wesley Smith, Derek Murphy, Ella, expences, Joe Konrath, Kristine Rush, Lightning Source, Marketing, Self-publishing, The Book Designer, The Digital Reader, The Passive Voice, website

Via: Flickr As the world of self-publishing continues to grow and change, the term indie author is naturally evolving as well. Most would define the term in the simplest definition as possible; Indie Author: An author who produces and publishes their own work without the aid of a traditional publishing entity. But is it really that simple? Is […]

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What happened to my Bookstore?*

Randall

August 27, 2012

Advertising, Amazon, Bookstore, business, Espresso, Marketing, QR Code., Self-publishing, Video

*Update at the bottom of the post Just the other day I found myself at the mall. It’s not my favorite place by any means, but when you have a wife and kids and a dog and a life, you somehow end up there on a regular basis. The mall we visit sucks. I hate to use that term, but in this case it fits. For two major reasons; one; it has no bar, and two; it has no bookstore. It does however have a […]

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