Archive for the 'Publishing' Category

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 [...]

If you fancy yourself a free lance writer, you might want to check out Suite 101. You’re paid through sharing the advertising from your pages.
Suite101.com’s  door is open to the curious novice looking for a “101″ intro to any of our 2,000 topics, but it’s also a meeting place for 4.5 million readers and 500,000 [...]

It’s easy to publish an ebook, but some people are worried about hackers, download thefts, credit card fees, etc.
So if you’d like to publish your ebook and have someone else do all the work (except the marketing which you’ll have to do), consider Lulu.com. Here’s their page about publishing your ebook.
Basically, it’s free.
You upload your [...]

When Steve Weber started marketing his book. He did what everyone told him to do and ended up spending $20 on marketing for every book sold. Here’s what really worked:
1. Blogging
2. Myspace
3. Free Review Copies ONLY FOR AMAZON TOP REVIEWERS
From the Small Press Blog HT Steve Weber
How did you learn the techniques in “Plug Your [...]

Would you like to enter your story for an opportunity to earn $500? Here’s how that can happen. Steve Weber pointed this out to me:
If you’re working on a book, or plan to write one someday, I recommend you check out the EditRed literary Web community, which can put you on the path to being [...]

I’m biased towards AssociatedContent.com I guess because they’ve paid quickly as promised.
But other websites pay to write. Helium.com is one of them.
1. First you create an account.
2. Then you confirm and activate it through your email account
3. Then you log in
4. Then you click “write” and
5. “Choose a channel” for your writing
6. Then you choose a “subchannel” [...]

Associated Content today talked about how to increase performance bonus – the amount of cash paid monthly per page view (in addition to any paid upon the original submission of the article).
Articles like this one on home medical transcription earn money when submitted, but every time this page is viewed, it automatically generates for the [...]