Tag Archives: Platform

Self Publishing and the Perpetually Imminent Mid-List Migration

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The stories of self-publishing success—the Hockings, Howeys, Konraths and the like—are well known, as is the Publishing Industry is Dead viewpoint of New York Times bestseller (and self-pub advocate), Seth Godin. But what of the long-predicted mid-lister migration to self …

Streaming Ebooks: A New Distribution Model for Schools

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Part Two in the series of articles on new e-book distribution methods for schools. See “Ebooks Are Actually Not Books” for Part One.  One ebook, one device, for one child. It makes sense if you’re a parent looking to provide reading material for …

Discoverability Tools and the Writer’s “Fight for Time”

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The feedback and chatter from this week’s DBW Discoverability and Marketing Conference (including this post from Porter Anderson) is positive—if for no other reason than the conference exists. Any time publishing minds gather to specifically focus on better ways to …

DBW Weekly Roundup: 3/31/11

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The most interesting news, commentary and tweets related to publishing that you may have missed, from all over the digital book world.

DBW Insights: Peter Collingridge

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“There’s an amazing opportunity…to properly digitize the books. Not just digitizing the text, but digitizing the whole experience.” Peter Collingridge

Enabling a Global Marketing Strategy

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By Evan Schnittman | “It is incredibly important to market a title coherently and wisely with a single brand and publish everywhere at the same time.”