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By: Publishing Talks David Wilk interviews Kent Anderson of Scholarly Kitchen. | WritersCast

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:21:33 +0000

[...] In this interview, I had the pleasure of talking to Kent Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of the Scholarly Kitchen, an Society for Scholarly Publishing member, and former Board member. Kent has a BA in English as well as an MBA. He is currently CEO/Publisher for the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. He formerly worked in the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Publishing Division in Product Development and International Business and as Publishing Director for the New England Journal of Medicine. He’s been a publisher, managing editor, copy editor, graphic designer, typesetter, editor, and author. He’s worked at the American Academy of Pediatrics, Medical Economics, and 3M, in addition to other odd jobs here and there (notice, this construction makes all the jobs odd). And interestingly, he also writes mystery novels in his spare time (he writes the Johnny Denovo Mysteries under the pen name Andrew Kent). He wrote a very intelligent article about publishing his latest book for the Self-Publishing Review. [...]

By: Why Do Fiction Publishers Get So Uptight About Self-Publishing? | Self-Publishing Review

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:37:15 +0000

[...] A guest post by Andrew Kent, author of the Johnny Denovo mysteries and author at The Scholarly Kitchen. Read his previous post: A Publishing Person Self-Publishes. [...]

By: » A Publishing Person Self-Publishes ::: Aging Ink

» A Publishing Person Self-Publishes ::: Aging Ink — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:52:15 +0000

[...] an interesting post at Self-Publishing Review, where someone from the publishing industry gives his own reasons for self-publishing. I’ve [...]

By: Self-Publishing and Scholarship Don’t Mix Well | Self-Publishing Review

Self-Publishing and Scholarship Don’t Mix Well | Self-Publishing Review — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:28:09 +0000

[...] the heels of his well-read and well-commented post, A Publishing Person Self-Publishes (seriously, read the entire discussion), Andrew Kent writes about the important issue that [...]

By: I look forward to the day when this debate ends … « Craig Lancaster | A Mind Adrift in the West

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:05:26 +0000

[...] A publishing person self-publishes: http://www.selfpublishingreview.com/2009/05/04/guest-post-a-publishing-person-self-publishes/ [...]

By: Is Self-Publishing Viable? Are Big Publishers Buying Anymore? | Write A Book With Teen Fiction Novelist Robin Rice At The Mayden Chronicles

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:11:41 +0000

[...] authors go at it over many of the details that are important to the discussion. See http://www.selfpublishingreview.com/2009/05/04/guest-post-a-publishing-person-self-publishes/ but be sure to read the MANY comments that form this important discussion. The discussion is [...]

By: Andrew Kent

Andrew Kent — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:30:51 +0000

Sales figures from traditional publishers always make me wonder. With return rates sometimes approaching 50%, they are talking gross sales most of the time, not net sales. One important difference with self-publishing is that all sales are net sales. Returns are the bane of the book industry, and may soon enough become a thing of the past.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:40:22 +0000

I’m a self-published author and I’ve set up a micropress to open the doors to others that want to publish like I have. Things are on hold at the moment as the whole financial situation is a bit dire, but we’ll be opening for submissions soon. However, my point is this: When people buy and read my books, they don’t care how that book got to them or whether it was self-, indie-, trad- or mainstream-published. They just have a book that they enjoy and recommend to their friends and family. Or it’s a book they hate and they tell all their friends NOT to buy it! So far, I seem to be getting a lot more of the former and none of the latter that I’m aware of. I may never sell in the multiple thousands, but there’s nothing to stop that happening if the books take off. I may even get an offer to be republished through a trad house (like Mathew Reilly or Christopher Paolini). But anyone that ever reads my books doesn’t give a rat’s arse about any of that. They just read books.

By: The Vanishing Line « Publishing Renaissance

The Vanishing Line « Publishing Renaissance — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:07:27 +0000

[...] Vanishing Line 2009 June 1 by zoewinters Over on The Self Publishing Review, indie author, Andrew Kent, posted an article showing his thought processes and reasoning for [...]

By: Steve Kelner

Steve Kelner — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:50:11 +0000

Should have added, thanks for the effort, Henry. It’s appreciated.