by Andy Updegrove | Jan 20, 2014 | SelfPublishing
This Friday, the latest installment in my long-running Adventures in Self Publishing series at my other blog will focus on all of those things that you need to do to take advantage of the Internet to promote your book, not in the dynamic sense (e.g., Twitter), but in...
by Andy Updegrove | Jan 19, 2014 | SelfPublishing
Certainly one of the most intimidating and/or distasteful tasks for a SelfPub author is to dive into social media if he has never had to before. True, as a lawyer, and a technology lawyer at that, I’ve not been able to totally avoid it. I’ve got over 600...
by Andy Updegrove | Jan 17, 2014 | SelfPublishing, Uncategorized
According to proponents of the Brave New World of self-publishing, there’s never been a better time to write a book. They seem to have caught a few ears with that claim, since in 2012, 391,000 new titles – an incredible number – were self-published in the U.S....
by Andy Updegrove | Feb 10, 2013 | SelfPublishing
Anyone who reads eBooks is aware that a number of content vendors are using proprietary platforms in an effort to lock you into their content libraries: most obviously, Amazon, with its Kindle line, Barnes & Noble with its Nook devices, and Apple with its iPads...
by Andy Updegrove | Feb 1, 2013 | SelfPublishing, Uncategorized
From time to time I Google my way around a few search terms looking for useful information on one or another self-publishing topic. One of those topics, of course, is promotion. Some time back, I ran across Smith Publicity, a book promotional firm that has been around...
by Andy Updegrove | Jan 21, 2013 | SelfPublishing
One of the more difficult issues the author of a self-published book faces is whether to pay others to help promote their book. Broadly speaking, such services fall into three categories: creating sales materials (postcards, posters, press releases), reaching out to...
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