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Digital Magazine Subscriptions What You Need To Know! - 0 views

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    This presentation sheds light on digital magazine publishing software and digital magazine subscriptions. Also, you will know how a publisher or business owner can avail the benefits of this publishing software. Digital magazines are becoming popular with each passing day. There was a time when people wanted to read paper printed magazines and have to wait for their monthly issue for long.
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Do Writers Really Need a Book Business Plan? by Deborah Riley-Magnus - The Book Designer - 0 views

  • Now is the time to jot down all those people who will want your book, why they’ll want it and how effective they’ll be at getting more people to want it. Know – really know – who your market and readership target is.
  • No point in writing a book if you don’t know why or if it’s special.
  • where else might it fit in perfectly?
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Author, Jody Hedlund: How to Know When to Quit Pursuing Publication - 0 views

  • I'm not talking about throwing in the towel on writing.
  • if a writer is pursuing publication with the goal of making money, they're going to find themselves sorely disappointed.
  • hose who are pursuing publication for the money are probably better off getting a job at Walmart for a much steadier and reliable income.
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  • In the modern publication industry, writers are shouldering HUGE responsibilities. Not only are authors working on novels (sometimes multiple books in a year), but they're also writing enovellas and eshort stories to help with marketing visibility.
  • authors must also take a large role in marketing their books.
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Ten ways self-publishing has changed the books world - 0 views

  • The industry has long suffered the irony that effective publishing is most evident when invisible; it is only when standards are less than felicitous that we realise how well what we read is managed most of the time.
  • Gone is our confidence that publishers and agents know exactly what everyone wants to (or should) read
  • The copy editor, a traditionally marginalised figure, is now in strong demand.
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  • Now, as authors meet their readers at literary festivals, run blogs or tweet, they know their readers well and are no longer solely reliant on their publishers to mediate relationships.
  • Now that so many self-publishing authors are finding the market themselves, agents need to find new ways to make their work pay. If agencies are multi-faceted (film, television, after-dinner speaking) they may be protected, but smaller agencies will struggle.
  • The role of the agent is also changing.
  • New writing patterns are developing too: team writing; ghost writing; software to assist the crafting.
  • Self-publishing brings happiness.
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Knowing The Benefit Of Online Product Catalog - 0 views

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    This post upgrades your knowledge about digital catalog software. Moreover, it will tell you regarding the advantages of employing it. Without any doubt, a revolution in the software development arena has proved to be especially useful in creating our lives simple by making it awfully simple to manage our daily tasks.
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Apple Magazine App: Join The Revolution! - 0 views

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    This article updates your knowledge about Apple magazine app which has the taken the present publishing market by storm. Moreover, you will come to know about the benefits of opting
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The Future Role of Agents | WritersDigest.com - 0 views

  • There’s a final dilemma. Publishers are now paying lower advances, releasing fewer titles and selling digital content at lower prices than print content (which in turn affects royalty payments to both agent and author). Assuming this is the new reality, there will be less money to go around for the number of agents now in business. Plus, will it be worth an agent’s time and energy to sell a project that doesn’t pay more than $1,500 upfront? Probably not. One agency has quietly come out with a new model that requires authors to pay a minimum commission—i.e., the agent must earn a minimum amount on a sale no matter what advance the publisher pays, which means authors would “share” a larger part of the advance upfront (or even pay out of pocket in the case of very low advances). Undoubtedly, there’s no shortage of aspiring writers who would be ecstatic to pay more to an agent if it meant securing a publishing deal. But such a model is sure to raise ethical concerns. Agents may take projects knowing they will ultimately be paid by authors rather than by publishers. Is the industry (that includes the author!) ready to accept such a shift in how agents profit?
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GigaOm's Michael Wolf Launches Digital Publisher BSTSLLR | paidContent - 0 views

  • Book publishers have long attested that short story collections don’t sell; Wolf would respond they’re not trying hard enough. “Traditional publishers don’t do a lot of marketing for the midlist authors today,” he said. “I don’t know if it’s that they’re too busy trying to survive or they don’t have the budget.”
  • “I’m organizing and coordinating all the different authors and having them all communicate to their specific niches and audiences. I’m driving them to a common landing page and we created a book blog. We’re leveraging social media and talking to the press.”
  • it’s true that, with limited marketing budgets, publishers often have to focus on the big titles, and smaller authors must pick up a lot of the marketing work themselves for a shot at success.
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  • Kevin Kelly’s “1,000 true fans” principle, the idea that an artist needs 1,000 true fans, “who will purchase anything and everything you produce,” to succeed.
  • that principle can be multiplied for a short story collection. “If you take a collection of mid-list fiction authors and put them together, you potentially have a culmination” of their thousand true fans, he said.
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      Very true. It worked for the "Machine of Death" anthology, which was written by largely unknown authors.
  • This is the democratization of publishing, Wolf says.
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      This is an over-used and grossly inaccurate term for what's happening in the industry. Democracy in publishing would spell disaster for all parties involved. There will also be a need for curators of content. So I think it might be more akin to a republic.
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    "If you take a collection of mid-list fiction authors and put them together, you potentially have a culmination" of their thousand true fans
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Smylie creates indy comic book publisher : page 1 - NorthJersey.com - 0 views

  • [We want stories that are] adventure-oriented, certainly, but hopefully with an emphasis on some literary or artistic merit, something to catch the eye and let people know that it’s a little bit different from other genre work they’ve seen.
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Benefits Of Ipad Magazine Apps You Must Know - 0 views

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    Best iPad magazine apps would not only help you to bring your content to the iPads but also make an engaging impact on your readers. In this article we will discuss this thing in details.
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