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Publetariat Dispatch: Smashwords 2012 Year In Review

In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, Smashwords founder Mark Coker takes a look back at some of the trends and developments witnessed in trade publishing and ebooks

March 5, 2013

Publetariat Dispatch: KDP Select – Is It Worth It?

In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, Duolit team member Shannon O’Neil shares her experiences and lessons learned from participation in Amazon’s KDP Select program. As if it

February 28, 2013

Publetariat Dispatch: Small Press and Non-Digital Survival

In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author Alan Baxter addresses the demands the digital age makes on publishers. It’s a fact of the publishing world that new

January 17, 2013

Publetariat Dispatch: How To Price Ebooks For Maximum Profitability

In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, The Savvy Book Marketer Dana Lynn Smith shares some helpful links about ebook pricing, as it relates to sales. Ebook customers tend to

November 8, 2012

Publetariat Dispatch: Ebook Buyers: Can You Afford To Lose Them?

In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author Virginia Ripple looks at the expectations of the growing ebook market segment. I recently read a guest post by Chris

May 22, 2012

Publetariat Dispatch: Moving Toward Amazon Only

In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author L.J. Sellers discusses her reasons for considering a move to Amazon exclusivity. And the craziness continues. Yesterday The Sex Club,

May 1, 2012

We Know You Love Words, But Can We Share Some Numbers With You?

Have you noticed that link on the right sidebar of our blog, that says, CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORSHIP RESULTS! Give it a click and you’ll

October 25, 2011

How many copies have you sold?

An interesting piece appeared in paidContent.org recently about how hard it’s always been to get real numbers of books sold from conventional publishers, but that is

October 24, 2011

Unexpected Bride over at Book Gorilla

Book Gorilla has a great ebook offering today called Unexpected Bride. The cover art is certainly eye-catching. Taking time to put together a nice cover

October 20, 2011

Publetariat Dispatch: Numbers, Numbers, Numbers – To An Indie Author, What Do They Mean?

In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, indie author M. Louisa Locke discusses her sales figures and what they signify—or don’t. 9,093; 2.99; 2,049; 99; 15,570; 440; 7135;

August 23, 2011

A must-read piece on independent publishing

About ten years ago Michael Pastore wrote this thoughtful, detailed piece which was published widely around the country under the title, Publish Your Book Yourself:

May 22, 2009

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