Many other self-publishing books, and I must own at least a dozen, tend to be dry, formulaic in approach.
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Since he began self-publishing his books through KDP in July 2011, he has sold over 300, 000 copies of his books to Kindle readers worldwide.
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And while I have no vested interest in it, I am a fan of self-publishing books and have seen the best and worst of them.
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The majority of self-publishing books also make big promises to the reader of how much money they can make writing on their own, but this book tells the truth.
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They're publishing low-cost e-books that are hitting all the bestseller lists.
He dedicates himself tirelessly to the transmission of humanistic values (which he says are threatened by free-market thinking and consumerism) by publishing through Albin Michel many books on philosophy for the young (Les Philo-fables, le conteur philosophe, Piccolo-philo, etc).
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This cuts at the age-old question of publishing: Which books to bet on and which to let go.
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Borders tends to try to capitalize on timing of current events for its self-publishing projects, such as music books tied to the Grammy Awards.
E-books on the iPad may help give the world of self-publishing a boost, authors and consultants say.
The company's plan to reinvigorate same-store sales by pushing harder into self-publishing--a recent trend that allows customers to come in and publish their own books on-site for sale in the local store--seems speculative at best.
Released last week, Man 2.0: Engineering the Alpha is the passion project of John Romaniello and Adam Bornstein and the first of two books in a seven-figure publishing deal.
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For now, a tiny 2% borrow e-books, yet they have the whole book publishing industry and librarians at the nations 120, 000 or so libraries at odds.
Regardless of how you measure it, self-published books have had a huge impact on the publishing world in 2012.
This number is growing quickly and even in print alone, self-published books accounted for 43% of the total publishing output in 2011.
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Michael Shatzkin, who consults with publishers about digital books, says the iPad might make self-published books even more competitive with books from the big publishing houses.
The publishing monolith made his fortunes in the pages of ye old paper-based books, but it seems that he'll be paying off future mortgages with something else entirely.
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Ellen Sabin is a piker in publishing--she has no agent, no big-name publisher and no experience writing books.
Worldreader gets e-books from the public domain or donations from publishers, or by digitally publishing work by local authors.
Eventually, e-books point the way towards a cleavage of content from platform, threatening publishing with the wholesale change that has hit the music industry.
As ever, we're breaking out the Gadget Table to discuss the month's latest and greatest (and not-so-greatest), including the iPhone 5, Amazon's Kindle Fire and Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1, before Brian heads out to the private (annex) library of comedian-turned-deranged-billionaire John Hodgman to discuss how technology is impacting the publishing industry and his upcoming books " That is All" and " The Complete World Knowledge Boxed Set".
Fatih Tas runs the Aram Publishing House, which for the past four years has routinely put out books focusing on Turkey's long-oppressed population of some 12 million ethnic Kurds.
According to Belinda Budge, publishing director of Thorsons, Britain's biggest self-help publisher and part of Harper Collins, sales of books about yoga and reiki, an Oriental healing system, have exploded in the past 18 months.
Then again there was always Walden Books at the Millcreek Mall -- if one of your visits happened to coincide with the erratic publishing schedule of Mondo 2000, you were in luck!
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