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Oct 9 2011in Features, Opinion by MarkTags: advance, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, bookstores, brick and mortar, business model, Disney, E-Publishing, editor, enterprise-publishing, entrepreneurs, facebook, failed author, filter system, independent, indie, internet, iPhone, JK Rowling, Kindle, litmus test, logical fallacy, manuscript, market saturation, marketing, net worth, Nook, profit, publication, sales, self-published, self-publishing, selflessness, smashwords, solitary profession, Stephanie Meyer, Stephen King, The Dead Don't Cry, Twitter, vanity author, WordPress
There is something happening in the publishing industry right now. Something seismic. Regular men and women – children even! – are beginning to self-publish. The internet has given them the keys to a once gated empire – and the gatekeepers are not happy. There is a system in place for writers, a proven process that [...]
Tags: advance, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, bookstores, brick and mortar, business model, Disney, E-Publishing, editor, enterprise-publishing, entrepreneurs, facebook, failed author, filter system, independent, indie, internet, iPhone, JK Rowling, Kindle, litmus test, logical fallacy, manuscript, market saturation, marketing, net worth, Nook, profit, publication, sales, self-published, self-publishing, selflessness, smashwords, solitary profession, Stephanie Meyer, Stephen King, The Dead Don't Cry, Twitter, vanity author, WordPress
Jun 30 2010in Member Blog, Opinion by James AshmanTags: marketing, profit, self-publishing
The “starving artist” cliché has been used to describe those in the creative fields for quite a while. It has been part of history that artists of the past were never appreciated until they were dead, crazy, and usually some combination of both. Pieces of art that are worth millions now didn’t make their artists [...]
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