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Category Archives: smashwords
New Authors Publish Best on iBookstore? How Come?
How to Sell Your Book on the iBookstore – why does this work? My own experience strays from conventional “wisdom”. iBookstore outsells every other outlet by 4-1. And I’ll get into this below – the key questions are 1) How … Continue reading
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Book III Outline – “How to Sell a Book Online”
(Just to make a note of things. Yes, I also have some outlines for Book I and II, but this came together today, so I thought to make a record of it. Feel free to ask me questions about this … Continue reading
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Sales Page for “Just Publish!” (as it’s now known…)
(Thought you’d want to see the blurb which is previewing on my site right now, but won’t show up on Amazon until the book wraps up.) “Just Publish! Ebook Creation for Indie Authors” Learn how to write, design, format, upload, … Continue reading
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Notes on Book Publishing
Some collected tips, hints, and tricks to get your book written & published. I just published yet another book, this one a collection of interviews and writings on writing I had laying around, or had published earlier in some other … Continue reading
Posted in amazon, Amazon Kindle, b&n, bestseller, iTunes, kobo, LibreOffice, lulu, Onlywire, Scribd, smashwords, Storify, synnd, writing
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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
Posted in amazon, Amazon.com, Internet Archive, iTunes, lulu, Podiobooks.com, smashwords
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How to Get Your Audiobook Linked Up With Your Kindle (and Hardcopy) Books on Amazon
Just had an audiobook go live… by itself. Needs links. So I was supposed to email somebody in Author Central about linking this with the Kindle version it was based on. You see, they both have the same title, just … Continue reading
Posted in amazon, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com, Audible, E-book, lulu, publish, smashwords
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Focus on Value Instead of Delivery
Kobo’s recent piggy approach to public domain self-publishing has a lesson. And that is: Concern yourself with delivering value, not just book sales. Having to edit the meta-info on several dozen books didn’t exactly make my evening. Swallowing the fact … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon.com, E-book, feedbooks, iTunes, kobo, Microsoft, Scribd, smashwords
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Why Lulu Made Me Buy a MAC for Self-Publishing
iTunes, unlike Amazon, doesn’t seem to be a walled garden. But there are hurdles which they put in place to keep indie authors out. Here’s some solutions to the problem. (photocredit: Kyle MacDonald) This began for me when Lulu decided … Continue reading
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The Numbers Racket and Amazon’s Public Domain Problems.
Amazon’s problem with public domain books are overcome by sheer numbers. (Photo: Conor Lawless) You beat Amazon at public domain publishing by having a lot of dogs hunting for you. Recently was in the middle of a test which had … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com, book, E-book, Ebook Publishing, epub, Goodreads, ibookstore, iTunes, lulu, publishing, smashwords
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The Espresso Network – the 7th Book Distributor.
Found a new place for Indie Authors to Publish their books – the Espresso Network. (Photo: Illinois.edu) This was an interesting find – and wound up with another way for you to self-publish books. Yes, of course it’s free. The … Continue reading
How to Sell Your Books Online, Old or New.
Selling books online doesn’t have to be hard, …but you have to know what to do when in order to be successful. (Photo: RIAN archive) Just because your book never sold well doesn’t’ mean it can’t. Just because most books … Continue reading
How to Build an Ecourse and What to Have In it.
(Photo: Ruschi) Building an online course is perfect for giving enough value to get people onto your list (and into your membership.) That’s the key point -giving away real value. Cheap stuff doesn’t cut it. This is another post in … Continue reading
Posted in book sales, books, google, IBooks, Internet, iTunes, Microsoft PowerPoint, publishing, smashwords, Web page, YouTube
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Finding Your Bliss – Self-Publishing Case Study 01
A Case Study in Self-Publishing – Progress doesn’t come easy… We’ll start with the Step 0 of self-publishing: ensure you are working on your bliss – something you are fascinated with and could talk to an avid listener forever. For … Continue reading
The Author as Producer – it’s not just about ebooks anymore. Case Study 04
Becoming a Media Producer: Even Better Than an Author The point I have to pause here is to tell you that you’ve just morphed into something more powerful and more creative than you’ve ever been before. Books, especially ebooks, have … Continue reading
My Google Play Books Were Killed and Replaced With Zombies
Your browser does not support the video element. Download this podcast They came for a friend of mine first, and I didn’t have anything to say. Then they came for me. Then I did want to say something, but it was … Continue reading
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The Four Whys and Four Hows of Successful Self-Publishing
The Four Whys and Four Hows of Successful Self-Publishing After now over a decade of self-publishing, I thought to give you some hints about what you’re up against. It isn’t all that pretty, but it can be made to work. The … Continue reading
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