Design Observer Announces the 50 Best Book Cover Designs of 2012
Design Observer, a highly-regarded graphic design website operated by The Design Observer Group, has just announced "the winners of the 2012 Fifty Books/Fifty Covers show, organized by Design Observer in association...
28 out of 100 top Kindle ebooks are self-published, by Piotr Kowalczyk
After a February excitement about Amanda Hocking earning millions of dollars from Kindle Store, I wanted to check how self-published authors are doing a couple of weeks later. From a Kindle Store...
Tolino launches self-publishing platform in Germany
One of the leading German digital booksellers has launched a self-publishing platform.
Tolino Media is giving indie authors another way to distribute books in Germany, according to Publishing Perspectives.
Publishing Perspectives says that...
Help wanted for resource list
Received the following email from Amy Edelman and thought it would be worth re-publishing:
Hi Paul,
Just read your tweet about Publetariat’s resource list, which is great. As you probably know, the...
GenCon panel: Michael Stackpole on self-publishing in a post-paper world
This is my coverage of Michael Stackpole’s presentation on how writers can take advantage of the e-publishing revolution. Stackpole does charge for this talk (it was $8 at GenCon; he will...
Seth Godin interview on self-publishing and the problems with traditional publishing
Michael Stelzner at Social Media Examiner has an interesting (and very long) interview with Seth Godin, the marketing guru whose book Unleashing the Ideavirus was an early paean to the power...
Beyond just e-books: $50 tablets will also widen the audience for indie videos on...
The rise of the Internet and mobile devices has been a bonanza for independent content producers. Even before Amazon’s Kindle, people were starting to self-publish fiction via the Internet, though it...
Michael Levin: Publishers caught in dilemma of their own making
Are publishers hoist with their own petards? (Hey, look, everyone, I said “with” instead of “by”!) That’s the premise of an opinion piece by author Michael Levin on the Forbes blog....
Writer Inc: Month 2
It has been an exciting first month for me on the Kindle store. I sold 5 books, and released my latest title just before the weekend. I am learning a lot...
Self-publishing can help entrepreneurs self-promote
On TechCrunch, James Altucher writes that “every entrepreneur should self-publish a book”. He runs through the usual benefits of self-publishing—declining publisher advances, rapidity of going from manuscript to sale, better ability...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
