- Will Your Book Sell? A Free Way To Know
This is another one of hundreds of free marketing ideas by Markus Allen and it’s a winner!
I remember laying in bed one night. I’d decided to write the book that was going to make me crazy rich. I had inside knowledge of a field, I could really help people negotiate the insane hurdles of an [...] - How Self Publishing Can Lead To A Writing Career
The folks at Thomas Nelson are no fools. According to the Wall Street Journal this major religious publishing house will offer aspiring authors a self-publishing option.
If a writer self-consciously follow’s Thomas Nelson’s content guidelines in producing these self published works and the sales “take off”, it might be a way to join the “big [...] - Ebooks Threatening Publisher Profits
Ebooks Threatening Publisher Profits.
No – not the Get Rich Quick ebooks, but the digital copies of books formerly in print according to the Financial Times. What’s especially being hit are the profits from hardback best sellers.
Google Books are a big culprit in this but Amazon’s Kindle is doing it’s damage too. (That’s why I’ve been [...] - Need Private Label Resale Rights For Food Items?
If you’re writing a blog or website aimed at domestic engineers (ok, women who like to cook, maybe some guys too) you’ll want to have a source of Private Label Resale rights that is not the typical lot of trash you find online.
That’s where some people I really respect come in… they have lots of [...] - He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work)
Talk about “Public Domain Profits”!
From Yahoo Business
Philip M. Parker has generated more than 200,000 books, as an advanced search on Amazon.com under his publishing company shows, making him, in his own words, “the most published author in the history of the planet.” And he makes money doing it.
Among the books published under his name are [...] - Connecting With Publishers
Do you want to connect with publishers? Send press releases? Get the word out to the paper and ink world?
Here’s your slightly bizarre website for doing just that:
It’s the EVERYONE WHO’S ANYONE IN ADULT TRADE PUBLISHING, NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, BROADCASTING AND TINSELTOWN, TOO:
A Writer’s Guide to The All-Pervasive Propaganda Network
Last Edition, 2008
If you can’t find it [...] - Have A Good Story About Empowering Women?
As I’ve mentioned before, the fastest, cheapest and easiest way to get published is to have another author tell your story.
Have them put your contact information in an end note or your website in the story.
Here’s an author seeking stories about empowering women via Dan P0ynter:
Stories of empowerment needed. I’m looking for your stories from [...] - Can “Team Publishing” Boost Your Business?
Here’s an interesting site. But before you click it, I am not recommending or endorsing it, I’m just mentioning it in an “FYI” way to introduce the concept. If it takes off, then you can be sure there’ll be other outlets. It’s hard to tell what kind of half life this will have. If too [...]
- Printing Public Domain Books
Public Domain Reprints is a non commercial website that helps people obtain public domain books printed on real paper at reasonable costs.
They are an interface, of sorts, between public domain book archives and Lulu.com the print on demand publisher.
1.7 million public domain books are available using this service. Really all you’re paying for is Lulu.coms [...] - How To Put Your Gmail On Steroids!
Here’s how to put your Gmail account on Steroids
You’ll find ideas here for how to
* How to turn Gmail into a massive personal database (Gmail + the Google Toolbar)
* How to get real-time news updates in Gmail (Gmail+ Google Talk + Twitter)
* How to automatically store your bookmarks in Gmail (Gmail + del.icio.us + Yahoo [...]
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