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Letter to a Christian Nation – Sam Harris
Sam Harris prefaces this open letter by clearly identifying his intended audience; the true believers, the estimated 44% of Americans who profess to place their faith in a literal translation of the...
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Self Publishing Part 5: The Fiscal Art of Book Design (or people judge books...
Just one of thousands of cheaply thrown together covers plaguing the Kindle store … Bad cover design is rife among self published books and a quick search on any online book store will quickly show up...
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Oracle Cards and Author Platforms – Hay House Writers’ Workshop 2012
I was invited to attend the Hay House Writer’s Workshop this week in Sydney and the catch phrase of the day was author platform. In fact, if you assumed that a writing workshop run by the world’s...
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Is in-book advertising inevitable?
Inevitable? In-book advertising offers authors revenue for free eBooks but at what cost? Just a few days after I argued that books should remain advertisement free, a new survey by start-up eBook...
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Self-publishing triples in 5 years
The growth in self-publishing over the last five years is well recognised but an analysis, released yesterday by Bowker, has put a startling figure on that rise, indicating that the number of...
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Penguin Random House – dawn of the mega-publisher?
Penguin House? A hypothetical logo proposed by Marco Leone – See all of them at Digital Bookworld The publishing world is abuzz with the news that two of the world’s largest publishers, Random House...
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Great podcast episode from the Creative Penn for self-published authors
A lot of first time authors are opting to self-publish digitally rather than go through the traditional print process. In fact, the number of writers taking up the opportunity has created an entirely...
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Self-publishing Part 9: Justifying the Humble Paragraph
Spare a thought for the humble paragraph, the unappreciated middle-child of book structure. While authors lavish attention upon each sentence and fuss over chapter headings and cliff-hangers, the...
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The Forgotten Sales Channel Part 1 – Book distribution for self-publishers
[Originally posted on digireado.com.au: Part One sets the scene for the current bookselling landscape in Australia and why a book distributor is important and Part 2 will look in more detail...
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The Forgotten Sales Channel Part 2: Australia’s Top 3 Book Distribution...
[Originally posted on digireado.com.au: In Part 1 of our discussion of book distribution options in Australia we examined why self-published authors should not limit their sales channels to a small...
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Small Business Breakthrough Workshop & Book Publishing as a Marketing Tool
In October last year I was invited as a guest speaker to a Small Business seminar run by Business Coach, Sabrina Domenosky. At the seminar I presented the idea of writing and publishing a book as a...
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Refocusing on Bookstores in 2013
The World’s Smallest Bookstore – Are wonderful spaces like this fated to close? Last week I questioned whether a post-bookstore world was inevitable and suggested 5 ways bookstores might be able to...
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Selling Direct: Why book publishers are offering subscriptions & how it will...
Publishers are now experimenting with direct to customer subscription services to replace declining bookshop revenues In my previous post I discussed how eBook subscription services such as Oyster and...
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