There’s been much talk about Amazon, Macmillan, and Apple’s iPad in the last couple of weeks. Amazon has been increasingly aggressive towards publishers. First they forced companies that support self-publishing and that use POD (print on demand) technology to give them more piece of the pie — at the expense of the author. Second, Amazon…
Category: Publishing
Anything to do with the publishing of my works.
Imagining “Lifeliner: The EBook” on the Apple iPad
Back in the late 1990s when I was envisioning the different ways of publishing Lifeliner: The Judy Taylor Story, I had an idea for an electronic version. Back in the computer middle ages, the only way I could’ve does this was on a CD, a bit clunky as a medium I had to admit. But…
Book Published in US First? Register it!
Us Canadians have it easy. We write a work; it’s copyrighted. It’s not only copyrighted here but also in all the countries with which Canada has copyright relations, by being a member of the Berne Convention, including the United States. However, many of us Canuck authors can’t get attention from Canadian publishers if we streaked…
Next Book for Review: The Almost Archer Sisters
I’m liking this Top Contributors group in the chapters.indigo.ca Community. They offer a select list of free books to members who agree to review them within 2 months. That’s how I ended up reviewing Farley Mowat’s newest book Otherwise. It’s a total win-win-win program. For me the reviewer, the win is a free book, practice…
Q&A with Paul Lima, Author of “How to Write a Non-Fiction Book in 60 Days”
As I announced yesterday, I’m pleased to host on my website Paul Lima’s Virtual Book Tour for his new book How to Write a Non-Fiction Book in 60 Days. Freelance writer Luigi Benetton sat down with Paul Lima, author of How to Write a Non-fiction Book in 60 Days, to ask what it takes to…
Announcement: Paul Lima’s Virtual Book Tour Appearing Here
Lorina Stephens of Five Rivers Chapmanry, a micro-publisher, recently published Paul Lima’s new book How to Write a Non-Fiction Book in 60 Days. I met Lima virtually several years ago when I checked out one of his e-mail writing courses. I had just been told by a vocational consultant that I would not be able…
Connecting to Community
I spread my presence across the bookstore Net and then realised I was overextended. I signed up for Amazon Connect awhile ago. It’s similar to chapters.indigo.ca Community; in fact the Community is probably a take-off of Connect. I tried to stay current with both, but in the end, especially after all of Amazon’s shenanigans, I’ve…
The Sheriff of Nottingham Works for iUniverse and Amazon These Days
You may remember I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the lack of sales information from iUniverse. Well, today the sales reporting software worked, and I just about choked on my hot chocolate. I called up iUniverse to see if I’d misread the figures, but nope, they were right. To backtrack a bit, so…
Sales, Lack of…Information
People ask me how my sales are going, assuming the book is selling fine. Well, to be honest, I have no idea. It wasn’t selling well during the months I do have information for, but iUniverse has a totally f’d up sales reporting system and software. The recent activity sales report launches a PDF file…