The Publishing Wars & Avoiding Them
Back in May, when I published Notes from An Alien, I knew I was making a choice based on my needs and the book's needs—we both wanted it to be read sooner rather than later…
The dance routine for pursuing traditional publishing can take a seeming eternity to produce a book. Self-publishing can be done swiftly.
Even with all the gatekeeping rituals of traditional publishing, lousy books are produced. Self-publishing can create books as good as any big house.
In June, I wrote The Complexities of Publishing and featured a post by Joel Friedlander that touts traditional publishing's strong points.
Today, I want to feature the ideas of Seth Godin.
Long before I began writing Notes from An Alien, I'd read a free copy of Seth Godin's book, Unleashing The Idea Virus.
It helped bolster the idea that I could handle what it would take to do all the promotion for any book I wrote—assuming I'd be willing to cultivate the friends and acquaintances who could spread the word…
Seth is a modern-day genius in marketing, computer-awareness, book promotion, tribe-building, and providing creatively simple and profoundly practical advice.
Here's a short video with Seth talking about Traditional vs Self-Publishing:
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