Archive for the 'Publishing' Category

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

There are lots of reports telling/selling you to get public domain content on your website because
1. It’s free
2. It’s more content for your page
There are some drawbacks to this if you’re writing on technology issues or internet issues. All the public domain material is not very current technically.
You can’t just “cut and paste” this material [...]

Short answer: Evidently!
The NY Times made this clear here.   147,000 copies worth!
HT: Steve Weber
Image courtesy NYTimes 

In the internet era, publishing your own book is amazingly easy.
So is shooting yourself in the foot.
There’s a reason that many people earn a living in the publishing industry and take a cut of the profits from the printing to the bookshelf. And that’s because it’s not as easy as it looks.
If publishing or writing [...]

Did it take Seth Godin to tell you that? (You must be slower than I am if it did!)
Seth Godin via Plug Your Book
There are more than 100,000 published authors in the US. Most of them have publishing houses (and at least a tenuous connection to a publicist). What a great marketing problem. The long [...]