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Resources for Kindle Authors and Publishers, from Steve Windwalker
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, The Book Designer Joel Friedlander points out some great resources for stock images. I wrote about where to find free or inexpensive photos for your blog or book back in February 2010. Since that time I’ve mostly used Flickr and iStockphoto, where you can buy credits as you go and many […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, The Book Designer Joel Friedlander provides an overview of how to create an effective self-publishing strategy. Carla King’s Self-Publishing Bootcamp at Stanford University turned into a terrific event. Through everyone I talked to I could tell that it was an engaged and well-prepared group of attendees who were getting a huge amount of information […]
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. Whenever a discussion about self-publishing gets heated, you can be sure someone will say, “If we let just anybody publish a book, soon we’ll be buried in bad, unedited books […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, The Book Designer Joel Friedlander talks SEO for authors. Lots of authors blog now, but blogging isn’t just about writing. There’s no way to avoid the technology side of blogging. Although you can hire someone to take care of installing software and setting up elements of your blog, the responsibility for […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, The Book Designer Joel Friedlander offers a survey of writing platforms to help keep the writer focused. As someone who writes and publishes constantly, the tools that I use are pretty important to me. I’ve written before about how the distraction-free writing enviroments that are embodied in some recent writing software […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, The Book Designer Joel Friedlander addresses what the new CPSIA rules could mean for self-publishers of children’s books. Do you know about the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008? No? Do you think you ought to? It’s absolutely critical that you know about this law if you—or your clients—produce books […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, The Book Designer Joel Friedlander discusses how to assemble an online press kit, and why authors should do so. When you’re launching and marketing your book it can be essential to get attention from the media. It may be big media, niche market media, trade magazines, book reviewers, book bloggers, talent […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, The Book Designer Joel Friedlander offers self-publishers an overview of the book design process. Note from Joel Friedlander: This post is one of a series on Book Design for Self-Publishers. In the last article we looked at getting the raw materials for your book design project organized. Now it’s time to […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, The Book Designer Joel Friedlander discusses metadata and its importance for authors and books when it comes to discoverability. Metadata—even the word sounds hard to understand. meta comes from the Greek, and means “above” or “enclosing” Metadata is simply data about data. In other words, metadata is information about your data. […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, Joel Friedlander, The Book Designer, offers a survey of minimalist word processor programs for writers. As someone who writes and publishes constantly, the tools that I use are pretty important to me. I’ve written before about how the distraction-free writing enviroments that are embodied in some recent writing software really help […]