Great post! I do think that all the “digital publishing changes everything” talk is true for the industry itself (dinosaurs of the publishing world are going to have to evolve into birds or go extinct). But it certainly doesn’t change the landscape of the reading public. Want to make a whole bunch of money self [...]

I also tried a similar fiverr deal months ago, both for my author blog and the Favorite Thing Ever site. They worked as advertised, and brought hundreds of new fans to my facebook pages. But facebook traffic to my sites never jumped much because of these fans — I wasn’t reaching people who actually cared [...]

That may very well be true, but due to the distribution channels, realities of ebook pricing and attitudes of e-book early adopters, many indie authors are finding that they sell a heck of a lot more books to the growing digital crowd than they ever could to the (potentially larger) group of people who still [...]

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Victory! Machine of Death is published by Bearstache Books, a company wholly owned by one of the editors/contributors (he primarily publishes collections of his webcomic, Wondermark). So it’s self-published in a very real sense.

Savor it — a self-published book is #1 at Amazon right now.

UPDATE: Today’s the day of the big push, and as of 9:30 am PST, Machine of Death is the #2 best selling book at Amazon.com (just below the new Keith Richards biography, and above Glen Beck). It’s also discounted at 45%, so if you’ve got an extra $10 laying around, help “The Little Indy That [...]

I think self-publishers can learn A LOT from comics creators — particularly the way independent comics folks are adapting to new media and carving out new business models out of whole cloth. Phil & Kaja Foglio at Girl Genius, for example, discovered that they sell more books by publishing their comic in free web installments, [...]

Thanks for the shout out, Henry! Really, FTE probably falls under the category of “something else I’m doing that feeds into my book promotion efforts.” Some of the bloggers there are authors hoping to raise their profiles, and others are just blogging for the joy of it. Still, I maintain that I’m more likely to [...]

Just fyi, the guy has apparently had a computer crash, so the tweets he was going to do never happened. He contacted me after the fact, though, and I was able to cancel the job and get my $8 back. So the Uphype service itself appears to be above-board

What the hell, I’ve got 8 bucks. I’m trying this out — the 121,000 followers guy is going to tweet me up on Monday. I’ll report back next week with my findings.

Matt Youngmark commented on the blog post The Real Source of Self-Publishing Stigma

Man, I actually miss my 2-hour commute. It was on a train, and that’s where I wrote about 70% of Zombocalypse Now!

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Matt Youngmark commented on the blog post The Real Source of Self-Publishing Stigma

Haven’t jumped onboard Twitter yet, but you can be my facebook friend if you’d like. http://www.facebook.com/mattyoungmark

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Matt Youngmark commented on the blog post The Real Source of Self-Publishing Stigma

Nova — I think it’s certainly true that agents are only looking for something that they think will sell, but I hardly fault them for that. It’s pretty much their job. It’s always tough when our own work is at stake, but we should keep in m mind that publishers…

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Matt Youngmark commented on the blog post The Real Source of Self-Publishing Stigma

Thanks for the kind words Zoe (also, I AM NOT BITCHES:)) Can’t claim that paranormal romance is really my bag, but I will say that our book looks as good as the ones I see at the supermarket, and your website is super fancy!

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Matt Youngmark commented on the blog post The Real Source of Self-Publishing Stigma

It’s called Zombocalypse Now (I’m not sure why my name on the post doesn’t link to my website like everybody else’s, clearly I have set up my profile weird) and you can check it out at http://www.chooseomaticbooks.com
And don’t get me wrong, I try to treat everybody with…

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Matt Youngmark commented on the blog post The Real Source of Self-Publishing Stigma

Put out a great, professional-looking book, and nobody cares if it’s self-published. In my experience, there is no self-publishing stigma.
There is, however, a stigma associated with bad writers publishing unreadable books, but you know what? There should be. I’ve…

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Matt Youngmark commented on the blog post Self-Publishing is Humanity’s Progress (and also the Apocalypse)

I’ll have to look into Kobo — do they use the epub standard? have an iPhone and have used the Kindle app for it — I’m not convinced that smartphones are the wave of the e-reading future, simply because to me it’s kind of a pain to read for…

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Matt Youngmark commented on the blog post Self-Publishing is Humanity’s Progress (and also the Apocalypse)

Interesting article, and I agree that the digitization of the publishing industry has a lot of parallels to what has happened to the music industry in the last decade (although publishers seem somewhat less resistant to change than record…

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