Another year, come and (almost) gone…
Sue Collier | December 22, 2010
Why and how to generate catalog sales, part i
Sue Collier | December 22, 2010
Chances are excellent that you can sell your book or books in catalogs. You can find a catalog for every category of interest you can imagine. And although the number of catalogs available in print-only formats is decreasing, the number of print catalogs with online editions grew from 8,675 to 8,894 in 2008, according to [...]
Vanity publishing is still vanity publishing–regardless of what you call it.
Sue Collier | December 21, 2010
I saw a tweet this morning from @iuniversebooks: “What is supported self-publishing?” it asked. I have been seeing that term—“supported self-publishing”—a lot lately, so I clicked on the link, which took me to a page on their website (surprise, surprise). Basically, the page was all about a service they provide called “supported self-publishing.” Here’s how [...]
Author Solutions is NOT indie publishing, folks.
Sue Collier | December 8, 2010
This post showed up in my Google alerts. It’s all about the inaugural “indie publishing contest” held in partnership by Author Solutions, Inc., the San Francisco Writers Conference, and San Francisco Writers University. <sigh> Here we go again. To start, we have “ indie book publishing leader Author Solutions.” Say what? Authors Solutions is NOT — I repeat, NOT [...]
Webtips for authors and self-publishers
Sue Collier | December 7, 2010
My team and I come across so many useful websites, I thought it would handy to put them together in a regular blog series. So a couple times a month, I’ll be listing a few of them in a new series called “Webtips for Authors and Self-Publishers.” If you have or know of a website [...]
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