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March 13, 2015
eBooks and DMCA Abuse: A Few Suggestions Based on My Experience
I’m a bit late in reblogging the follow-up, but I’m glad to hear (and share!) that Becca’s DMCA case got cleared up so quickly! And now she has some interesting thoughts on how such scams might be avoided.
Originally posted on The Active Voice:
Thanks to thefine people ofthe indie-publishing community, Nolander has recovered wonderfully from itsweeks vacation. Folks on The Passive Voiceblog and theKboardsWriters Cafeurged downloads, and a number of discounted/free book sites sp...
March 12, 2015
Tolino to Launch Self-Pub Portal in April
This is excellent news for those of us with books in German translation, since the places Tolino distributes to have nearly a big a share of the German market as Amazon.de.
Tolino to Launch Self-Pub Portal in April.
March 11, 2015
A weapon of mass instruction — the book tank!
Okay, this is so awesome, I have to share it:
The world needs more crazy people like that. :)
Gaetano’s suspicions confirmed for #WIPpet Wednesday
It’s WIP snippet day again! And I am just marching right along through the first draft of Facets of Glass, not worrying about spoiling anything for anybody. *g* This excerpt comes immediately after the one I gave you last week. Gaetano has reported back to the Evil Dowager Princess after delivering the glass apple to Minerva. Math today 11-3 = 8 for 8 short paragraphs — plus one, just because I want to give you Gaetano’s reaction to what the DP says:
Gaetano returned to the palazzo on the Gra...
March 10, 2015
Starting out as an indie author: Formatting the interior of your book for print / CreateSpace
Formatting your self-published book for print on demand (POD) is very different than for ebook publication, another level of difficulty entirely. But as with most things, the first book is the hardest, and after that it gets progressively easier. In this installment of my series, I will be referring exclusively to CreateSpace because that is the only POD publisher I have experience with. I suspect most of the these instructions will be similar for other POD publishers, however.
Preparing you b...
March 4, 2015
What was with that apple? #WIPpet Wednesday and an update
As many of you have noticed in previous weeks, many of the motifs in Facets of Glass come from the fairy tale Snow White. But just as I used the motifs from Cinderella in very different ways in Island of Glass, so too in this book. It is not a witch who brings the apple to Minerva, or even the Evil Dowager Princess, it is the unsuspecting member of the Foscari House Guard, Gaetano. In this excerpt, which comes a couple of paragraphs after the one I provided last week, Gaetano is starting to s...
March 3, 2015
Independent Publishing and DMCA Abuse, or “How a Scammer Got My Book Blocked with Very Little Effort”
Scary, scary story here. I did not realize how easy it is to sabotage someone’s copyright. Good luck, Becca! Amazon, wake up!
Originally posted on The Active Voice:
Okay, I���ve got a story. It���s a sort of scary one. I think independent/self-publishing authors need to know about it, and telling it carefully and correctly is also important for my own situation, so I���m going to take my time and lay it all out in order.
Pressed for time? You can skip to the bottom for the TL;DR s...
���Are they going to say this is fantasy?���
Book View Cafe Blog – Ursula Le Guin on Kazuo Ishiguro:
A wild country inhabited by monsters, an old couple who must leave their home without knowing exactly why, a sense that important things have been, perhaps must be, forgotten��� Such images and moods could well embody a story about the approach of old age to death, and indeed I think that is at least in part the subject of the book. But so generic a landscape and such vague, elusive perceptions must be brought to life by the language of...
Barnes & Noble���s Dirty Little Secret: Author Solutions and Nook Press
Important information about Nook Press Author Services, thanks to David Gaughran!
Originally posted on David Gaughran:
Nook Press ��� Barnes & Noble���s self-publishing platform ��� launched a selection of author services last October including editing, cover design, and (limited) print-on-demand.
Immediate speculation surrounded who exactly was providing these services, with many ��� including Nate Hoffelder, Passive Guy, and myself ��� speculating it could be Author Solutions. H...
March 2, 2015
Advertising on Amazon w/ AMS via KDP���Is it Worth it?
A great analysis of a new advertising option for KDP Select authors. I think I’m going to have to give it a shot!
Originally posted on chrismcmullen:
Images from Shutterstock
MY EXPERIENCE WITH ADVERTISING ON AMAZON
The new option for KDP Select authors to advertise their Kindle e-books with Amazon Marketing Services (AMS) is intriguing.
I have now run 14 different ads through AMS. I���ve also studied the results that several other authors have posted.
Today, I���m sharing some of...
