Posted by Holly Brady under Self Publishing March 2022 –  Photo by Cedric Fox on Unsplash For over five years, I’ve been helping authors create jacketed hardcover books on Ingram Spark and sell them on Amazon. But last fall, KDP—Amazon’s self-publishing arm […] Posted by Holly Brady under Book Design   Photo by Rod Searcey Book Expo America, the big New York show for publishers, featured several new resources for self-published writers. Here’s a roundup: • BookWorks founder Betty Sargent and
Posted by Holly Brady under Self Publishing  Plenty of people will tell you that self-publishing a book is free. And it is free if all you’re talking about is the cost of uploading your files to CreateSpace or Kindle […]
Posted by Holly Brady under Self Publishing  Here’s a prediction: within three years, we’ll see the publishing industry split into two tiers. Bestselling authors will work with traditional publishers–Simon & […]
Posted by Holly Brady under Self Publishing  Clearly, 2011 is a tipping point for self-publishing–moving this new publishing model from backwater to the forefront of the publishing world. It’s all happening despite the bow-tie traditional publishers who still would have authors believe that they are the only ones who […]
Posted by Holly Brady under New Media It’s been a big week for Palo Alto. Last night Obama showed up for a $30,000-a-plate dinner at the home of Google VP Marissa Mayer. The Dalai Lama spent two days speaking on altruism at Stanford. And Harrison Ford flew into town to stand next to the biologist E. O. Wilson for a press announcement […] Posted by Holly Brady under Self Publishing Recently I asked several self-publishing companies to send me samples of books they’d produced. I told them I wanted to check the production values of those books–paper quality, binding, cover stock and so forth–before deciding whether to go with their services This request is clearly not something they’re used to. One company, after expressing minor […] Posted by Holly Brady under New Media  I’ve yet to see a book trailer that makes me want to buy a book. I know they’re all the rage right now, but because they’re made by wordsmiths and not […]
Posted by Holly Brady under New Media  Serious authors often squirm when they have to reveal that they’re self-publishing their books. That’s because self-publishing is often confused with vanity publishing, that backwater of the publishing industry where snake-oil salesmen still flourish. But […]
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