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SELF-e offers self-published authors a way to distribute ebooks to libraries, but without any pay. The team behind SELF-e addresses ...
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Journalist and consultant Porter Anderson explains the new SELF-e program from Library Journal for getting self-published ebooks into American libraries ...
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Table of Contents “When the industry looks out of the window” Jane Friedman: Porter’s Brain My Fellow Millennials “When the ...
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While lots of authors are fond of saying that readers don’t care whether something is traditionally published or self-published, many ...
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Table of Contents The White Noise of Falling Royalty Rates Ask the Question, Give No Answer Difficult Interpretations: "Not Your ...
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Shanna Swendson, author of the Enchanted Inc. series of books, is working what some authors might consider near-magic in a ...
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Much shorter and quicker to go over than the initial report, this edition takes into account information interpreted from approximately ...
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You may be looking at the best chance ever encountered for authors—of all stripes, Ms. Rowling, as Hugh Howey tells ...
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Table of Contents “To Call for Change Within the Publishing Community” “To Stand Up for Each Other” “A New Era ...
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Table of Contents Is Publishing a Class System? Jane and Jason: “Inclusion of All Paths” Don and Doubt: “Not the ...
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Table of Contents Lit Smart Rebecca Hugh and Cry Combat in the Community If You See Us Running… Lit Follow ...
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Table of Contents Read It and Tweet No Anti-Social Scientists, Please “A Two-for-One Special” Our “Bifurcating Future” Read It and ...
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DBW’s producers at F+W Media may take their mission even more seriously than usual: this DBW takes place in a ...
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Table of Contents Nobody Dast Blame Us Maass Production Wendigging It Nobody Dast Blame Us You know the line, right? ...
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BULL Men's Fiction is a newly relaunched site (just this month) and a print magazine, about 130 pages, published twice ...
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Table of Contents They Three Queens of Orient Were Hope and Fear #1: Visibility Hope and Fear #2: Literary Fiction ...
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If we want to count all the self-publishing authors, then we need to survey and count every hapless no-income-from-writing would-be ...
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Table of Contents Notes Defensive Reading “Anything Except Readerly Books” “Print versus Digital” “Where I Get Unhappy” Those Lists Notes ...
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Michael Tamblyn of Kobo was The FutureBook's Most Inspiring Digital Dude of the Day and, I'm sure, of many days ...
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It comes as news to no one in the industry! the industry! that self-publishing is controversial. We may tend, however, ...
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PubSmart 2014 may be creating something we've needed to see much more of: a conference in which not only business-conscious ...
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As a hand-wringer here, I'm one of the "but not all" skeptics Coker mentions, unpersuaded, and how good that he's ...
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The digital dynamic, which makes it possible for people to publish books with or without traditional publishing support, also seems ...
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As long as we envision "the book" as that thing with pages—or its digital descendant on an e-reader or tablet—we're ...
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Are we impatient for the "new books"? We are. Do we have to have them tomorrow? We don't. Will they ...
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Here at the 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair this week, if we're not actually walking past a couple of smoothly contoured ...
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While many legacy publishers may not like to think about how large the self-publishing movement is, it appears that making ...
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Table of Contents Three Valuable Views A Word for the Publishers Humming the Bookstore And Just Write It Already View ...
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Jonathan Franzen, in his essay at The Guardian, wants to tell us that Viennese fin-de-siècle essayist Karl Kraus has "a ...
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As has happened in the past, Amazon seems to have some folks in the publishing world feeling that they didn’t ...
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Both from within the industry and from outside it, writerly advice flies at you, continually. Just as you sit down ...
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In social reading, "How much of the author-reader intimacy are we talking about trading away?" Porter Anderson in Writing on ...
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In Writing on the Ether at JaneFriedman.com, Porter Anderson looks at allegations of bullying in the book-recommendations community in a ...
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Table of Contents Looking for the "Comp"-etitive Edge Marketing: Not Just for Companies Anymore Wait. Who Wrote That? Looking for ...
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In Writing on the Ether at JaneFriedman.com, Porter Anderson looks at outworn ideas of publishing's black-hatted "villains," through the decline ...
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In Writing on the Ether at JaneFriedman.com, Porter Anderson looks at a new effort to rank ebook sales in London ...
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Porter Anderson's Writing on the Ether at JaneFriedman.com looks at two mutually influential market forces about which we have incomplete ...
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In Writing on the Ether, Porter Anderson looks at the revelation of J.K. Rowling's pseudonym for The Cuckoo's Calling and ...
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In Writing on the Ether at Jane Friedman.com, Porter Anderson looks on the comparative dynamics of literary fiction in the ...
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Table of Contents Should Authors Stop Linking to Amazon? Timing, and Interdependence Chewing Each Other's Legs Off Mr. Smith Goes ...
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In Writing on the Ether, Porter Anderson at JaneFriedman.com looks at how literary criticism now is divided into three major ...
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On the Ether at JaneFriedman.com, Porter Anderson looks at Amazon Publishing's latest strides -- including $110,000 in Breakthrough Novel Award ...
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Porter Anderson, in Writing on the Ether at JaneFriedman.com looks at the mounting pressure on entrepreneurial authors to write faster ...
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Friend Grief and AIDS: Thirty Years of Burying Our Friends by Victoria Noe It’s been likened to a plague, but ...
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Porter Anderson looks at how six of the most prominently successful self-publishing authors are taking their own booth (#966) at ...
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How many authors do you know who seem more renowned among their peers than readers—not because these "thriving ink-slingers" (Michael ...
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Writing on the Ether provides selected news and perspectives on publishing. It is written by journalist and critic Porter Anderson ...
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Writing on the Ether provides selected news and perspectives on publishing. It is written by journalist and critic Porter Anderson ...
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Writing on the Ether provides selected news and perspectives on publishing. It is written by journalist and critic Porter Anderson ...
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Writing on the Ether provides selected news and perspectives on publishing. It is written by journalist and critic Porter Anderson ...
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