‘Possum Living’ and ‘Radiohead journalism’: The story of an article about frugal naturalist Dolly...
Mike Masnick at TechDirt links to a Wired story by Paige Wiliams. Williams is a journalist who published a lengthy article using the “Radiohead model”—placing it on her website and inviting...
FastPencil offers ghost-writing service for self-published books
Self-publishing has gotten easier and easier lately, with the arrival of print-on-demand services such as Lulu and on-line stores such as Amazon offering their own packages. But until now, the...
Self publish direct to smartphones with Unlimited Publishing/SPAN connection
Unlimited Publishing has connected with the Small Publishers Association of North America to set up a new self publishing solution. The publisher or author sends the work to UP in...
Will the iPad bring a self-publishing revolution?
Tim Bajarin at PC Magazine sees in the iPad a potential blessing for publishers, but also a potential curse. The blessing is, of course, the new multimedia content delivery system....
“How I sold 10,000 copies of my self-published book” – a self-publishing success
<img src="http://www.teleread.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Screen-shot-2010-01-04-at-10.05.13-AM.png" alt="Screen shot 2010-01-04 at 10.05.13 AM.png" border="0" width="78" height="95" img style="padding-right: 4px; margin: 5px 5px 0px 0px" align="left"The litany of failure with self-publication certainly outweighs the litany of success....
Author Solutions hooks up with Espresso Book Machine; Kevin Weiss video on self-publishing
Weiss is the CEO of Author Solutions, which is an indie publishing house. While there is some PR, of course, in the video, on the whole he makes a lot...
Don’t self-publish in vain!
Or, rather, don’t be fooled into thinking that “self-publishing” and “vanity press” mean the same thing.
Recently, we reported on “lies told by the self-publishing industry”. Here is some more advice...
Lies told by the self-publishing industry
Is the title of a blog post by writer Maya Reynolds. While there is a huge amount of hype about self-publishing, the simple fact is that it is easy to...
Lulu now sells EPUB
Received this email from Paul Durrant and it should be of interest to anyone who is self-publishing:
The subject is the news. Lulu now allows upload and sale of ePubs. DRM is...
Self-Publishing Expo in New York City Saturday November 7
Here's the release I received. You can find the full information here. The panels look very interesting. If time permits I hope to be there and report on it...