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By David Rothman

image Want to spend more time writing and less time dealing with Books in Print, Google Book Search and other services? Or uploading your works to Amazon? Or perhaps setting up a blog to promote yourself?

Laura J. Dawson, a 20-year veteran of the publishing industry, is launching AuthorWeb to help writers cope with the above, and more. Best of luck, Laura!

image In a sense Laura is reflecting a major trend—the shrinking of some large publishers and the rise of self-published writers, as well as the growing expectations of publishing houses that authors will promote themselves online. She is well known in the industry for her expertise with metadata, technical standards and other matters as they affect publishers. Now she’s expanding into various areas to serve individual authors as well.

Related: Filedbyauthor, the new online directory of writers, is still showing constant updates. If the readers follow, then this one will fly. FBA is one of the services that Laura will register interested clients with.

 
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