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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: Amazon’s KDP Select Results

In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author L.J. Sellers discusses her experiences with Amazon’s KDP Select program. This post originally appeared on the Crime Fiction Collective blog

April 12, 2012

Publetariat Dispatch: Crowdfunding Or Panhandling? The New Arts Funding.

In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author and small publisher Alan Baxter ruminates on the new “crowdfunding” movement. Warning: this post contains some strong language. This is

January 10, 2012

Publetariat Dispatch: Hashtagstories – Stories Written as a Sequence of Twitter Hashtags

In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author and digital media maven Piotr Kowalczyk introduces Hashtagstories. It’s almost a year since I started hashtagstories – microstories written with

December 29, 2011

Publetariat Dispatch: Indie Author Discrimination

In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author Melissa Conway addresses the bias against self-published authors and books. I thought I’d write about some of the issues that

December 27, 2011

Publetariat Dispatch: 8 Reasons Self-Publishing Is Entering A Golden Age

In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, The Book Designer Joel Friedlander examines the driving, and growing, forces at work behind the rise of the indie author movement.

December 15, 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

“It’s Gold!” Monique Martin’s novels soar with Kindle Nation sponsorships

Monique Martin’s well-told tale “Out of Time,” this week’s Kindle Nation weekly sponsor, soars from #2,921 to #372 in K Store, #12 Mover+Shaker. We know

October 11, 2011

Curious about Kindle sales numbers?

Monday, June 15, 2009 Curious about Kindle sales numbers? If so, there has been plenty to chew on in the last few days. Let’s just

August 15, 2009

Publishing Perestroika in the Age of the Kindle: You Need a Publisher Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle

Curious about Kindle sales numbers? If so, there has been plenty to chew on in the last few days. Let’s just establish up front that,

June 15, 2009

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