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Video: John Kremer on Book Marketing in 2012
Last week I had a chance to sit down with John Kremer and have a chat about book marketing. I don’t think John needs much of an introduction, but for those new to the indie publishing scene, you...
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Video: The Book Marketing Continuum
Authors who are new to self-publishing can have a hard time understanding how all the parts of this puzzle fit together: Do I need 2 ISBNs? Should I print digital or offset? Can I publish ebooks and...
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15 Steps to Create Great Blog Videos
Video is everywhere in blogs today. As many people predicted, when web surfers get broadband internet service, they want blog video and lots of it. Let’s face it, we’ve all be raised on television in...
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Roadmap Case Study Interview with Karen McCann
One of the best things about my job is that I get to meet and get to know so many authors. Whether it’s here on the blog, at publishing industry events, through my consulting and design work, or in...
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This Week in the Blogs, April 7 – 13, 2013
Today I’m blogging from Omaha, Nebraska at the Nebraska Writers Guild conference, where I’ll be speaking later in the day on current tools and trends in self-publishing. Coming to these conferences...
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e-Book Cover Design Awards, March 2013
Welcome to the e-Book Cover Design Awards. This edition is for submissions during March, 2013. This month we received: 96 covers in the Fiction category 16 covers in the Nonfiction category Comments,...
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X Hits the Spot: Why .DOCX is Better than .DOC for Authors Using Word
by Tracy R. Atkins (@TracyRAtkins) Tracy is the Word expert behind our new templates for indie authors at BookDesignTemplates.com. His last post here was Guide to Book Launch and Advance Sales...
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News: Publetariat, New York Times, BookDesignTemplates.com
I was shocked to receive this note from my colleague April Hamilton: “Last week, Publetariat was named one of Writer’s Digest’s 101 Best Sites For Writers for the fourth year in a row, and this year...
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This Week in the Blogs, April 14 – 20, 2013
It’s been an exciting and unusual week here in the U.S., but now that the weekend is here and in full swing, the big news seems to be spring. Warm weather, sun dresses and shorts, and outdoor pursuits...
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Book Design: Pages or Spreads?
When independent authors get started publishing a book these days, their projects usually include plans for both print books and eBooks. And that makes a lot of sense. With the growing popularity of...
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Writer’s Tools: Moving Up From the iPad to a MacBookAir
It’s hard to believe it was three years ago that we went through the hype, insanity, and general hysteria over the launch of the Apple iPad, the first tablet computer to achieve wide success with the...
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This Week’s Book Formatting Blog Post Roundup
I’m in Chicago today speaking at the IBPA Publishing University. These events bring together enthusiastic and forward-looking publishers and authors who want to stay on the leading edge of book...
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Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #31
Welcome to this issue of the Carnival of the Indies blog carnival. This issue is for April, 2013. We welcome your submissions on topics related to writing, self-publishing, book design or marketing...
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5 Things I Learned at the 2013 IBPA Publishing University
I just got back from a fast trip to Chicago to attend the 2013 IBPA Publishing University, undoubtedly the biggest and most diverse live educational opportunity for indie authors and small publishers....
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15 Steps to Create Great Blog Videos
Video is everywhere in blogs today. As many people predicted, when web surfers get broadband internet service, they want blog video and lots of it. Let’s face it, we’ve all be raised on television in...
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Roadmap Case Study Interview with Karen McCann
One of the best things about my job is that I get to meet and get to know so many authors. Whether it’s here on the blog, at publishing industry events, through my consulting and design work, or in...
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How Do You Know Whether Your Blog is Working? Interview with George Gill
It’s so easy to start a blog now that thousands of authors start blogging every year. And then most of them quit. What’s the difference between an author who learns how to use their blog—an incredible...
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Developmental Editing with Alan Rinzler [Video Interview]
I had the great pleasure to sit down last week and have an extended talk with legendary editor Alan Rinzler. We only live about 30 minutes away from each other, and we’ve been on many panels together...
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[Video] Adobe InDesign Book Template Quick Look
Yesterday I introduced our new book templates for Adobe InDesign, and we’ve already had to field a lot of questions. So today I sat down and made this video to show you what the templates look like...
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[Video] What’s Up At BookBaby.com? Interview with Steven Spatz
Long-time readers will remember the interviews I did with BookBaby.com’s original leader, Brian Felsen. These intereviews were key to really understanding how BookBaby saw the ebook market they...
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