Monthly Archives: August 2011

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The book is not dead: but long live the book | FutureBook

The book is not dead: but long live the book | FutureBook

The book is not dead: but long live the book | FutureBook: There are few publishing analysts like Philip Jones prepared to take a knife and cut through the media crap pedaled about the doom and gloom in publishing and the imminent demise of ‘the book’. This is another first class piece he has written

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The Culture and New Wave of The Spoken Word

Music and literature have always had a unique relationship, with both composer and writer in a never-ending struggle to perfectly construct and record their definition of experience through seduction and mystery. Spoken word can be used to describe a musical or term of entertainment, referring to works or performances that consist mostly of one person

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Kit Foster | Cover Designer For Self-Published Authors

Kit Foster is a book designer and has recently launched his business. He contacted me yesterday to let me know that he is keen to get the ball rolling with his new venture. To get things going, he is offering to design book covers for self-published authors – for free – to help build up his portfolio.

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Amazon Launch Kindle Indie Bookstore

Amazon today announced the launch of the Kindle Indie Bookstore which will be dedicated ‘high quality’ and bestselling books from authors and independent publishers. On face value, this doesn’t look a bad move by Amazon if it does help to promote worthy self-published books. In addition, Amazon has also announced some other new features including

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PUBLISHING SERVICE INDEX – August 2011

This will probably be the last index published until late September/early October as I have a pretty busy schedule  coming up over the next two months. I suspect as we move closer to the financial quarter four for 2011, there will be quite a number of changes with a the companies I include in the

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The Literary Agent’s Indie Ebook Roadmap – How Literary Agents Can Survive in The Digital Age | Mark Coker – Smashwords

Smashwords founder Mark Coker shares his views on how he believes literary agent can survive in the age of digital publishing by producing the “The Literary Agent’s Indie Ebook Roadmap” slideshow. The Literary Agent’s Indie Ebook Roadmap View more presentations from Smashwords, Inc. Related articles The Literary Agent’s Indie Ebook Roadmap (smashwords.com) Hard Wired For

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Vantage Press Launch Trade Imprint

US self-publishing service, Vantage Press, today formally announced the launch of its trade imprint, Vantage Point Books, backed by a distribution program agreed with Ingram Publisher Services. The establishment of a trade imprint has been something CEO David Lamb first spoke about introducing in 2010. The announcement included its four inaugural titles of fiction and memoir. MY

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