The NY Times posted an article the other day about an author who achieved a great deal of success through self-publishing … and is now getting offers from major publishing houses. It just goes to show you, do everything right via self-publishing and you, too, could have the big-wigs fawning over you soon enough! Read […]
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This article, posted just a few hours ago by Mark Coker in the Huffington Post, says it all about the state of book publishing today. Not a day goes by when I don’t speak with an author who’s self-publishing — not because they can’t find a publisher, but because there’s very little benefit to going
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A great press release I came across today … Thought any up-and-coming author would appreciate it. ———– How Any Author Can Prepare for a Successful Book Launch in 2011 At the start of a new year, many writers look to print-on-demand as a quick and economical publishing solution. If an author is prepared for a
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Bowker recently released the “2009 Book Consumer Annual Review: U.S. Demographics & Buying Behaviors.” It was based on responses from 43,000 people in book publishing. And while it would cost you a whopping $1,000 to download and read the complete report, here are some highlights, courtesy of Publishers Weekly. This is some pretty interesting information
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Catchy headline, right? You’re probably wondering what it means. I’ll get to that…. The germ for this post started with my reading an article in the New York Times about the rise of self-publishing. It basically says that it’s no longer considered more prestigious to get published by a major publishing house. More and more
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Here at Smart Author Sites, we’ve worked with many authors, a fair amount of whom are self-published. And one question that I frequently get asked by authors who are self-publishing is how easy/difficult it is for an author to sell their book themselves through the book web site. If you’re wondering whether to take the
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