Hub and Spoke Marketing For Books On tallying up all the distributors I’ve been able to find, one point emerged: there are distributors at every level and for every version of your book, who want to promote your book for free. That is remarkable, as it shows you can get paid for every type of [...]

The Care and Feeding of Book Distributors Like the first rule of publishing, that books are containers of ideas (and not one set format) book distributors have to be studied with the idea they are really just paid lead generators with their own buying audiences. While you feed the distributors with what they want (or [...]

Got Your Ears On? Here’s Great Audiobook News… What changes a couple of years make… There is finally an alternative to ACX, which allows an actual improvement in audiobook quality and payment to authors/talent. There is a caustic critique of ACX/Audible which recommends only CDBaby. [https://janefriedman.com/acx-alternative-2/ ] In this, you are using CDBaby to reach [...]

BitTorrent Bundles Becomes the Ultimate Book Distributor I’ve spent some time discussing (and dissing) Tim Ferris for having to promote his work on BitTorrent because he published through CreateSpace instead of Lulu. But you can’t fault the results. As a note, we don’t know how much he spent on promotion to get that. Which means [...]

Because you never know when things will go to hell. Being prepared is a good option to keep open. You’ve probably heard this pharse or some version: “Plan your work, work your plan and always carry a spare.” Another one you should also know is: “Never build your house on rented land.” These both describe [...]

Because you never know when things will go to hell. Being prepared is a good option to keep open. You’ve probably heard this pharse or some version: “Plan your work, work your plan and always carry a spare.” Another one you should also know is: “Never build your house on rented land.” These both describe [...]

(Soon available as ebook on Amazon ) Why Social Media is turning their viewers into Zombies and what you can do about it. (Warning: Talking about zombies may be controversial. Talking about social media as enablers may be controversial. Talking about social media enabling zombie outbreaks is definitely controversial.) Zombies aren t just fiction. They aren t [...]

(Soon available as ebook on Amazon ) Why Social Media is turning their viewers into Zombies and what you can do about it. (Warning: Talking about zombies may be controversial. Talking about social media as enablers may be controversial. Talking about social media enabling zombie outbreaks is definitely controversial.) Zombies aren t just fiction. They aren t [...]

Is the Content Inc. Model a Good Fit for Author-Publishers? Short answer is “yes.” Long answer is “depends.” Depends if you get what he’s saying, understand it, and put it to work. The bottom line is that author-publishers are content merchants. They deal in content, no matter what form it’s in. Like screenwriters and song [...]

Is the Content Inc. Model a Good Fit for Author-Publishers? Short answer is “yes.” Long answer is “depends.” Depends if you get what he’s saying, understand it, and put it to work. The bottom line is that author-publishers are content merchants. They deal in content, no matter what form it’s in. Like screenwriters and song [...]