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Self-Publishing and the American Dream

Posted in: Kristen Tsetsi

  • The new “American Dream” ideal - dangerously infecting our youth culture - seems to also have infected the literary community.

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    • Self-Publishing and the Health Care Debate

    Posted in: Henry Baum

  • I’m tempted to put this on the Self-Publishing Review, but I’ve made a point of not getting overly political there - but this comes out of a discussion on the site. Self-publishing is non-partisan, and in my travels in the world of self-publishing I’ve been led to some self-publishers’ blogs with a political bent [...]

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    • How Bookstores Can Survive? Drop the Consignment Model

    Posted in: Andrew Kent

  • One of the premises behind print-on-demand publishing (and largely working for Amazon.com) is that when a book is ordered, it is purchased — there is no longer a consignment model of returnable inventory.
    Bruce Batchelor, a POD expert from Canada, has posted this very interesting video analysis of the flaws in the consignment model, illustrating how, [...]

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    • The Road to NPR

    Posted in: Kristen Tsetsi

  • As a cab driver, I’d listened to NPR every morning and every evening (it was a 12-hour shift) and heard countless authors being interviewed. I fantasized about one day being one of those authors. (But it wasn’t a realistic fantasy; it’s like dreaming of being on Oprah. You can be pretty sure it’s never going to happen.)

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    • How To Do What We Do

    Posted in: Christopher Meeks

  • I did not intend to be a publisher. I intended to be a writer. My first job out of grad school, however, was as a senior editor for a small publisher. Everything you heard about publishing—the stress, the long hours, low pay—it’s true. Yet it was fun to see our books land on bestseller lists. [...]

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