Morning Roundup: Book Promotion, Indie Bookstores, Self-Publishing Segregation? and more
Why Kobo, Amazon and Barnes & Noble Need Dedicated Self-Publishing Sections (GoodeReader)
All of these stores have a single thing in common, they list self-published titles side by side with traditionally published...
Eoin Purcell organizes The One Stop Self Publishing Conference
On Saturday, October 16, at the Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel in Dublin, Eoin Purcell and Vanessa O'Loughlin will be presenting this conference. The website says: This conference is designed to provide...
Morning Links — Indie authors, copyright and love stories
Why Some Indie Authors Fail (Rich Adin)
Amazon Maps the 50 Greatest Love Stories by State (Good e-Reader)
Can Conservatives Break the Copyright Stalemate? (GigaOM)
Self-Publishing Stigma: Because Revolution Takes Time (HuffPo)
Kindle Daily Deals:...
Borders partners with BookBrewer self-publishing platform
From the press release:
Borders® today announced that it has teamed with BookBrewer to launch BORDERS – GET PUBLISHED™ Powered by BookBrewer. The co-branded publishing service empowers independent authors to publish and...
The economics of self-publishing an ebook
An interesting piece on the business of self-publishing. I was struck in particular by this section pointing to the weakness of content producers in the self-publishing plane. That said,...
Indie game developer on when it’s all right to pirate his games
Reaching into the world of video games again for another point that could apply equally to e-books. (At least it’s not about Valve this time.) Jeff Vogel is the...
John Cog’s own little Christmas story – an unintended self-publishing success
Got the following email:
Happy holidays, Paul! My girlfriend's birthday was yesterday, and I seem to have wandered into my own little Christmas story. My girlfriend actually cried when I showed her...
Links on Mobile E-books & Self-Publishing 07.08.2011, by Piotr Kowalczyk
Book Marketing: How 4 Authors Are Finding Success With Social Media
August 1, 2011
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Morning Roundup — Stories you may have missed
Self-Publishing Sees Triple-Digit Growth Since 2007 (Publisher's Weekly)
Read-it-Later Service Pocket Launches Mac App (GigaOM)
UK's Waterstones Forges Deal with Amazon (Good E-Reader)
Libraries, Tablets and Beyond: Tablets in the Classroom (The Digital Shift)
Kindle Daily...
Morning Roundup: Self-publishing, how good is good enough, 8 inch Surface tablet coming?
Leaked Product Listing Hints at 8-Inch Surface Tablet (The Digital Reader)
Rumors have been circulating for nearly a year now that Microsoft was working on a smaller MS Surface tablet, and now...