This past Saturday, I was a sponsored book on Kindle Nation – something I wholeheartedly recommend.  It costs $69 for one-day sponsorship, with other options:
Option 2 – Free Kindle Nation Short Excerpt Email Sponsorship – 1 Day:
Free Kindle Nation Shorts excerpt and sponsorship to be emailed to 5,500 opt-in free email [...]

So I finally gave in and bought an iPad – trying it out 3 times in store before finally laying down the $500.  I was reluctant because of the amount of bad press, wondering if I was giving in to a fad, and if buying a first-generation device is truly short-sighted.  But actually I needed [...]

This was a comment on the Get it Together, Lulu post.  Warrants its own post:
I don’t work for Lulu, but I do work for one of their competitors. And while I find it amusing to see them get bashed by bloggers on a regular basis, there are a few points that I think you should [...]

From BookstoMarketNow.com:

Calling All Self-Published Authors!
Do you yearn to see your book in book chains, your local independent book store, catalogs and on all of the major book-selling websites beside Amazon.com?
Would you like to be doing 30 or more broadcast and internet radio shows that showcase and promote personal development authors — and [...]

Lulu’s been exhibiting quite a few problems lately. Here are two posts on Lulu’s mishandling of ebooks and their clients. The first is reprinted from Mike Cane’s iPad Test blog, titled Lulu And The iBookstore: Say NO!

Get Your eBook in the Apple iBookstore
Don’t do it.
Here’s why.

I can’t say that definitively, as there are possibly success stories in the past, but the likelihood that you’ll sell any books at a showcase – or even that someone will remember your book after seeing it – is small.  This past weekend I went to the LA Times Book Festival, an enjoyable madhouse of [...]

I recently came across Manfred Macx, which has a very interesting intro:
This site started with two ideas.  1)  Ebooks should always be free, and 2)  Authors need to eat.
What would the publishing industry be like without pulping hundreds of thousands of books a year?  What if authors could control more than 15 or 25% of [...]

April Hamilton, of Publetariat, has a new service for self-publishers called The Publetariat Vault. Unlike other listing services, the Vault will include sales data, as well as reader reviews.  The idea is to make a searchable database for publishing pros to use in order to find authors that are a lower risk to publish.  [...]

This will repeat some of the information mentioned in the inaugural post of Backword Books – an experiment in self-publishing.  Backword Books is a compendium of self-publishers – a kind of hybrid of self-publishing and the traditional literary press.  It’s not a press that uses POD technology because the difference is that each writer on [...]

Since putting up the IndieReader post there’s been some criticism of the service.  Some people criticize IndieReader itself, while one person criticized me in an email for even giving IndieReader a platform. The way I see it: IndieReader is a development in self-publishing, it’s news.  It’s up to writers, to some degree, to determine [...]