Category Archives: Internet Archive

DIY Audiobooks for the Self-Publishing Authors – a Review of Sources

(photocredit: mlibrarianus) How to publish audiobooks can be learned by indie authors – this is a review of places you can, just maybe, get your book published. Like ebooks, you first encounter the shadow of the Amazon Monster before any … Continue reading

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Some copyright notes – where to check for public domain issues

Some places to check for copyright orphans before you give up on that great public domain book. The safest approach is to only use books printed before 1923. That limits what people want to read, though, since the language and … Continue reading

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Adding a New Distributor for Book Discovery

More multiple eyeballs to add to your list of book-buying promotional outlets. (photo credit: Jackie) Which means more discovery and more sales = more income. Found it when I was chasing down a new series of books which had fallen … Continue reading

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Why Digital Sharecropping Means FAIL – And How to Survive Podcasting Catastrophes (Part 1)

Just had all my years of files posted to Archive.org vanish. Gone. Erased. Videos, PDFs, everything – gone. Of course, that also means all the podcasts to this blog. Thanks. Much. No email, just – “your account is locked” when … Continue reading

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How to Survive Podcasting Catastrophes (Part 2) – Rainmaker to the Rescue

As mentioned last post, Internet Archives had suddenly dumped all my stuff and locked me out. They didn’t like my bit.ly affiliate links, apparently. So I was left with all these podcasts to re-upload somewhere. I was looking to Rainmaker … Continue reading

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