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SELF HELP BOOKS

It's been six years since Amazon acquired CreateSpace, an on-demand publishing platform, and almost four years since they announced the free online setup for self-publishing. While four years seems like a long time in our fast-paced world, self-publishing still hasn't reached the mass audience. Even the biggest social media gurus still take the traditional route, only choosing to self-publish when they've been rejected by mainstream publishing houses.

Examines publishing vs. self-publishing in the aftermath of Penguin's decision to cancel an author's contract when she self-published a collection of stories.

Boundaries In Relationships , a self help book that help you to set healthy personal boundaries in different relationships, so you can find peace of mind and serenity in your life.

Creative Confidence: Learn It, Develop It & Change Your Life [Megan Coulter] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The book “Creative Confidence – Discover Your Unawake Potential & Self-Confidence” explains the most effective and powerful ways to build a spontaneous self-confidence that naturally lives within us. You will find the ways to bring out your unawake creative confidence that is lying deep inside you

Seth Godin takes a novel approach to self-publishing - thinking about promotion and distribution at the beginning of the process - and finds funding through KickStarter.

An interesting post about the future of self-publishing and "literature."

Big publishers are flocking to the iPad, readying to publish electronic versions of their bestselling books on Apple's much-anticipated tablet ...

The new face of self-publishing

Risks of self-publishing.  Authors working independently, without an editor willing to challenge, may be working against their best intrests.

Self-published authors and publishing houses are learning to work together.

How self-published authors are re-defining the rules of book promotion.

Romance Writers of America speaks out against Harlequin's new imprint for self-published romance authors.

GP Taylor is one of self-publishing's success stories. The former vicar sold his motorbike to fund the first print run of his children's novel Shadowmancer; its popularity, driven by the author's tireless campaigning, led to a publishing deal with Faber & Faber and a career as a New York Times bestselling author. What used to be seen as a last resort is fast becoming the most successful trend in writing.

No longer purely a vanity project, self-publishing is enjoying a boom, thanks to electronic readers.

Many people have missed key opportunities in their life because they failed to see the power of now. Many people in the world fail to live in the now because they prefer to be fear of what they do...