Dean Wesley Smith’s Sacred Cows of Self Publishing
Something any indie publisher needs to read – Dean Wesley has put together this excellent series titled “Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Indie Publishing” …
Pareto Principle in Publishing
Even “This American Life” is going the Indie. Route. (Indie distribution, that is). Traditional gatekeepers are holding less and less of the “premium” ground. Seems the people who are not actively going Indie are at least talking about it. At some point there will be a showdown between the big publishers and Amazon. Already Hachette…
Should traditionally published authors quit the big-5?
Look at the screen grab and see if the same thought occurs to you? Jim Butcher is one of my favourite authors, so I was eager to see his latest Dresden book. His publisher is asking for $17.23 for the Kindle version – a “$10 saving”. To drum up interest, they put out the first…
A Modern Business Model for Authors
What should a modern indie author do to maximise their business? If I was already successful as a fiction self-publisher, what would I do differently to how most operate? A few people have asked me to expand ideas that I have been sharing in various places, from blog comments through to forum postings. In fact,…