Self-Publishing Resources

Posted By Sue Collier on June 27, 2011

Here’s some of what’s happening in publishing right now:

From GalleyCat: Self-Published Author Sells 1 Million Kindle eBooks

John Locke has become the first self-published author to join the Kindle Million Club—the eighth author to sell one million eBooks through Amazon. Follow this link to read free samples of his novels.

From Write Nonfiction Now!: Online and Traditional PR Tips for Writers

So you have written that book you have dreamed of writing for years and now want to get it published. What next? For more than 15 years, I have represented numerous authors through my company, Wasabi Publicity Inc. I also worked in a publishing house soon after graduating college. I have seen many publishing strategies, some more successful than others.

From Rachelle Gardner: The Changing Publishing Landscape

I do think that with new technologies affecting everything from printing to distribution to marketing and sales practices, plus pressures from the marketplace, publishers might be moving toward progressively shorter lead times, even on their books that need to be printed and shipped.

From Indie Author: “Can You Tell Me the Best Way to Ensure the Success of My Book?”

In a word, no. If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it too many times to count: There is no one-size-fits-all, by-the-numbers success formula for indie authors.

From Publishers Weekly: Sourcebooks to Publish Memoir by South Korea President
When asked how Chicagoland’s Sourcebooks acquired the world English-language rights to The Uncharted Path by Lee Myung-Bak, the president of South Korea, publisher Dominique Raccah responded, only partially in jest, “It’s about Chicago.”

From Forbes: What Should Publishers Do Now That We’ve Got Self-Publishing?

Technologically driven unemployment is really hardly new: we’re pretty much out of buggy whip makers now just as we’re pretty much out of buggies that need whipping. But in this brave new world where anyone (why, it’s so simple that I might even give it a go!) can publish a book on the Amazon Kindle or the Barnes and Noble Nook (to say nothing of the iUniverse, iPhone, iPad and whatever else Apple has put an i in front of to trademark) what role is there left for publishers?

From Wired.co.uk: Book Publishing Finally Has Its “Radiohead Moment”—with Harry Potter

After a week of heavy speculation, JK Rowling has revealed that she is to self-publish the e-books to her mind-bogglingly successful Harry Potter series through her newly-announced proprietary platform, Pottermore

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