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Publishing for Profit
http://www.GropenAssoc.com/blog/
Publishing seems easy, until you try it. If you're running a small press, forging a publishing career, or simply interested in the industry, this blog will answer your questions, and then some.
- Added on: Oct 29th, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Marion Gropen
- Listed in: Books Small Business
- Tags: books finance publishing accounting book publishing
Recent Posts
My First Ebook is Launching
If you’re a frequent visitor here, you might want to keep an eye out: I’m teetering on the edge of releasing my first ebook in a series. None of them will be long: this one’s about 33 pages of text and 13 pages of spreadsheets and c...
Ebooks: What We Lose With Them
Ebooks are wonderful things. I love them. I read on my Kindle, and on my Kindle app on the iPhone, and wouldn’t give them up for worlds. With ebooks, we gain convenience and the ability to change font sizes. We gain on price and on environment...
When Should I Use POD?
First, let’s separate the two kinds of POD: there’s Printing On Demand and Publishing On Demand, and they’re quite different. Unfortunately, it can be hard to tell them apart. The publishers are services like Lulu and AuthorHouse th...
Guest Post: Pete Masterson on CreateSpace Vs. LSI
Pete Masterson is a very generous man who shares his experience as a printer and a designer with many new publishers. He participates on many listservs, including the Yahoo Group Self-Publishing. It was on that group that the following piece first ap...
A Typical Trade Title’s P&L
I’m sure many of my frequent readers know these numbers by heart, but some of you are new around here. So, . . . Let’s look at a typical non-fiction trade book. (Fiction makes less money, by the way, unless it “goes big.” And ...
Should You Sell Directly to Readers?
The proverb among micro- and self-publishers is that “bookstores are lousy places to sell books.” (I believe Dan Poynter was one of the first to say it.) This can, of course, be true. You have to offer significant discounts not only to th...
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Talk to you soon.
Rey
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