Three Cases for Self-Publishing
There’s a comprehensive essay about self-publishing called The 7k Report. This report tries to track the e-book and self-publishing markets and contains lots of information, but some of the most useful...
View ArticleIsraeli Law to Boost Book Sales Kills Them Instead
To give authors a living wage, Israel recently passed a law preventing book stores from discounting new books. The idea was to keep new book prices artificially high so authors could earn higher...
View ArticleThe Strategy of E-Book Pricing
With most e-book distributors like Amazon, Nook, and iBookstore, you get 65% – 70% of the profits if you price your e-book within a certain range such as 99 cents up to $9.99. At a higher price than...
View ArticleThe Book is Out of Its Cover
The Financial Times recently published an article about the future of books. The article initially focuses on Amazon’s latest decision to pay authors per page someone reads of their books in a book...
View ArticleWhat Killed Traditional Publishers
A long time ago in the good old days, publishers served two purposes. One, publishers offered editing services to turn rough manuscripts into polished books. Two, publishers offered a distribution...
View ArticleThe Dying Computer Book Market
At one time I used to make most of my income through printed books. Back then, companies like Microsoft updated their software every few years, which meant you could write a book on Microsoft Office...
View ArticleWhy You Want to Read E-Books
Book lovers can never get enough books. Yet the cost of printed books keeps going up so rather than buy expensive books, many people visit their local library instead. For those who want to read books...
View ArticleFollowing the Leader with Amazon
If you’re going to self-publish your books whether they’re fiction or nonfiction, you need to be where the people are. Right now, that means the two most important places to self-publish your work is...
View ArticleAmazon’s Brick and Mortar Stores
Amazon recently opened a brick and mortar bookstore in Seattle and may even open another brick and mortar bookstore in San Diego. After decimating bookstore chains like Borders Books and Barnes &...
View ArticleAmazon’s Bookstore
It’s somewhat ironic that Amazon helped drive many independent bookstores out of business, and now Amazon is starting to open their own bookstores in Seattle, San Diego, and soon Portland. The big...
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