Category: Publishing
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How to Set up a Goodreads Author Page
It’s time to explore Goodreads! Goodreads is big. Big for readers. Big for authors. Goodreads is owned by Amazon, and it’s kind of like a social networking site, just for books. Now, I know what you’re thinking. You’re wondering why books would need a social networking site. Don’t they get enough contact with other books…
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Ingram and the Self-Publisher
When I first started down the self-publishing road, I remember reading a very frustrating blog post. It told me some information I needed without helping me understand anything about what they were saying. Confused? Here’s more or less what they said: “Most Self-Publishers agree that it’s best to use both Createspace and Ingram.” That’s great,…
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KDP Print vs. Createspace Part II
So, in the first part of this blog, we looked at the pros of KDP Print. It’s a good system for getting your print books out there. Today, however, we want to see some of the limitations of KDP Print, take a look at Createspace and explore whether KDP or Createspace is a better option…
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KDP Print vs. Createspace Part I
My apologies, everyone, for being so quiet on the Self-Publishing front for a bit. I deal with a few health limitations, and I blog when I have some free energy and brain power. This last month I’ve been extra low on both of those. 🙂 Let’s try to get back at things, shall we? Amazon…
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Getting an ISBN in Canada
We’ve covered a lot about ISBNs. In this series of blogs, we’ve looked at the following information: 1) The Ins and Outs of ISBNs 2) Why you should get your own ISBN 3) Where you get your ISBN 4) How to Get an ISBN in Canada This is now Part 4 and in this part,…
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Where Do I Get an ISBN?
In this series of blogs, we have covered: 1) The Ins and Outs of ISBNs 2) Why you should get your own ISBN 3) Where you get your ISBN (this blog) 4) How to get an ISBN in Canada So in this blog (part 3), we want to take a look at where you can…
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Reasons to Get Your Own ISBN
In the first part of this blog, we explored some of the basics of ISBNs. In this blog, I want to explore why I would recommend you get your own, personal ISBN (as opposed to going without one or using a freely provided one by a printer/distributor/publisher). Later, we’ll look at where you get an…
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The Ins and Outs of ISBNs
It’s time to talk about ISBNs. ISBNs are important. ISBNs are confusing. ISBNs are numbers. In the four parts of this blog, I’m going to explore the following areas: 1) The Ins and Outs of ISBNs 2) Why you should get your own ISBN 3) Where you can get your ISBN 4) How to get…
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Book Launch Teams Part IV
Okay, I’m trying to balance two things out. First, I want to provide decent content on this blog. I don’t want to post a blog about Book Launch Teams (BLTs) and have it be 200 words about how I think BLTs are a good idea. I want to give some decent content and direction on…
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Book Launch Teams Part III
Alright, in Part One of this series, we talked about the Benefits of a Book Launch Team and Goals and stuff. In Part Two of this series on Book Launch Teams (BLTs), we talking about content and focus in terms of Online or Face to Face Book Launch Teams. Today, I want to look at some…