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Why Indie Author Did NOT Sell His e-Book Rights to Simon & Schuster
Click here to read this inspiring story of an author who initially said 'No Thank-You' to Simon & Schuster's offer to publish his ebook.
'.....At some point, he said, when you’re making enough money, you want to please your customers.'
Amazon: E-book Sales Soared, Print Crawled
'...In a statement accompanying its fourth quarter and full year results for 2012, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos neatly summed up where he sees the future of book retailing heading--especially for his company. “We’re now seeing the transition we’ve been expecting,” ...
Publishing World Acclimating to the Digital Revolution
Like the record industry before it, the publishing industry is changing dramatically. Of the Big Seven publishers (Random House, HarperCollins, MacMillan, Penguin, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group (Little, Brown & Co, et al), and Scholastic), six of them–all but ...
New York Times: First Review of Self-Published Author!
The author's name is Alan Sepinwall. '..... In“The Revolution Was Televised,” Mr. Sepinwall — who writes the blog “What’s Alan Watching?,” best known for its observant episode-by-episode commentary — analyzes a dozen “great millennial dramas” that have forged a new ...
Next Amazon Novel Winners Will be Published by Amazon…Not Penguin
COMING SOON!
If you want to submit your novel to this contest, you need to get it ready for possible publication by Amazon! The inaugurial contest, held in 2012, offered the winner publication through Penguin. Amazon's has changed the rules just ...
Tim Ferriss: Writing Is The Easy Part
Take a look at a day (or week) in the life of a NYT best selling independent author, Tim Ferriss. As I tell writers all the time,writing the book is the easiest part. Selling it? Ah, there's the challenge. Click ...
Entrepreneurial Authors, Can You Do What Book Publicists Do?
Not an endorsement of her services but I did like this Huff Post blog penned by a book marketer and author, Penny C. Sanvevieri. Here's what a traditional publicist does for an author and what entrepreneurial authors must learn how to ...
Author Tim Ferriss Defies Traditional Publishing!
'.....Last week, Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa Foolproof: Recipes You Can Trust sold roughly 66,000 books through BookScan. If you walk into Barnes & Noble, you will likely see walls of her books, which her publisher has paid for, just like Coca-Cola pays ...
Notable Shift In Writers Conference Workshops
In Review: The 2012 Southern California Writers Conference.
For several years now, I've been delivering a clarion call to organizers of writers conferences where I'm invited to teach. Writers need role models. It used to be, we only had one, at least ...