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Self-publishing is upending the book industry. One woman’s unlikely road to a hit novel, The Mill River Recluse.
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By keeping e-book prices high, the Big Six book publishers are not only getting less money from their books in many cases, but they are also fuelling piracy and pushing readers away — all of which is giving Amazon even more ammunition to use…
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I link to Konrath a lot on this blog, so I thought it important have another take on trad. vs. selfpub issues. My only comment is there are extremists on both sides of the debate and you have to do a lot of research to decide which path is for you.    A few weeks ago, author Tobias Buckell spoke out on his blog about the extreme rhetoric and inflammatory language used by those who… let’s say they “advocate” for self-publishing and the end of t…
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How much money might you make if you hurry? Some numbers and timetables.
Via www.deanwesleysmith.com

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Wow! This is a really great stat breakdown of ebook publishing stats. You’re going to want to check this one out!
Via thecontentwrangler.com

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• Kindle sales stats: a paucity of information (charman-anderson.com)
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Running a promotion? Reena Jacobs came up with this useful post on dealing with your readers’ technical questions about claiming their digital book prizes.   Alas, not everyone has a Kindle, Nook, or other eReader. Fear not, my readers! There are ways for you to still read that delicious book, eReader or not.
Via reenajacobs.com

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Here’s another, different, take on the KDP offer. If you get most of your sales through Kindle, it probably makes sense for you. If you don’t care for it, the contract is renewed every three months. On the other hand, it might have dire long term consequences for the industry. Going back and forth from Jeff Bennington’s reasoning (The Writing Bomb below) and this from Mark Coker, I’m torn. I’ll keep an eye on this and see how things go for Jeff.
Via blog.smashwords.com

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In this post there are great lessons about effective book cover art, publishers who handicap sales and fellow authors sniping at anyone who dares to complain. It’s fascinating, like a car crash in slow motion. 
Via dearauthor.com

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I’m trying to get some writing done, and I really feel like I’ve said all there is to say about the publishing industry and going indie. But then several alert readers emailed me to say Hachette created an internal memo to explain to its employees and customers why it’s still relevant.   I was published by Hachette, and for the most part I enjoyed working with them. They’re good people and dedicated professionals.   But boy, their memo is a giant bowl of steaming fail. And they dropped the ball when it came to me, too. More on that below.   So I called up my friend Barry Eisler and begged him to convince me to just let it go and not do a blog post about how silly the memo is.   Instead, Barry read the memo and said, come on, we should just fisk this sucker together.
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