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Mar.29.2013
Amazon is buying the popular book-focused social networking site Goodreads, which was founded in 2007 and now has more than 16 million members. The move is in line with Amazon’s record of acqquiring much of the book world. In the last 15 years, the company has bought AbeBooks.com, Audible.com...
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May.29.2012
Now that I’m back from vacation it’s time to get back to work. And the work I have in front of me is to make a decision about my book. Should I continue on the road to finding a new publisher or should I self publish?
My tendency is to look for a new publisher (in case you didn’t know, my publisher...
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May.02.2012
(Reprinted from www.MillerMosaicLLC.com blog)
I have been working on marketing self-published books and ebooks, and here are some often overlooked Amazon opportunities:
Amazon store on a Facebook Page:
You can have an Amazon store on your Facebook Page. (See the Phyllis Zimbler Miller author...
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Dec.09.2011
I was delighted today when I dropped by Peet's for a tea and book and saw a teaching colleague I had not seen for months. I was even more delighted to hear that he is working on volume two of a Civil War history. That is, our town during the Civil War era. He published the first volume years ago...
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Oct.26.2011
There's a lot that goes into paperback production of a book. A lot more than most people give self-published authors credit for. There are many factors involved with book design - font, text size, cover design, paper color and quality, cover formatting, etc, etc, etc. If even one little...
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May.12.2011
Some stories we pen, despite being deeply felt and finely executed, end up too short to merit a book. What can we do with these children of a lesser god? We can blog them to the ether, but the web's ephemeral state, its essential impermanence, nags at us. We’re writers; we want...
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Apr.16.2011
Well, it's done. The proof arrived and was perfect this time, thanks to help from CreateSpace and the program I bought to embed italics in the text. Another small purchase for me and a big step toward publication. For whatever it is worth, Among Women is now a live book and ready for sale. I bought...
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Mar.28.2011
Self-publishing has been quite the struggle, while at the same time, it’s come with an extreme sense of accomplishment. I dove right in with very little research to begin with, reading half of a self-publishing book (The Well-Fed Self-Publisher) and information on self-publishing websites....
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Mar.25.2011
I began the process of migrating the data from Word into the template provided by CreateSpace and it went well the first time around, that is until I found out that the cover artist wouldn't have a template that fit the 6 x 9 size paperback. Drat! Oh, well, I downloaded another template and began...
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Mar.24.2011
I know what Amanda Hocking means about dealing with cover art, page size, copy writing, etc. because I'm going through the first stages of putting my book out in print. It is a bit daunting, although there are plenty of companies and people available to make it easier -- for a price. It does tend...
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