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The second generation of Blogger, the popular blogging website from the 2000s, Medium has become the best place to author opinion articles on the internet and build an audience for yourself as a columnist. You can gather data about who is reading your articles, what their interests are, etc. And you can tap into their ecosystem of 30M+ users. Mediu
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Chapter 10 Your Content Roadmap: Constructing A “Sticky Web” For Your Writing
Nicolas Cole • The Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention
big books under contract for the newly formed Amazon Publishing. However, getting those big books depended on Amazon’s being able to secure distribution for their books outside Amazon. The enticement of advances and special marketing through the dominant online bookseller wouldn’t attract really successful authors if their books wouldn’t be in stor
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One of the agencies the package went to was Frederick Hill Associates in San Francisco, where Bonnie Nadell, a new associate who had worked in the subsidiary rights department at Simon & Schuster when Less Than Zero was published,
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
I wanted as many different platforms, with as many different types of audiences, sharing and consuming my content. Whether they read my article on Quora or Inc Magazine or my website didn’t matter. What mattered is that they read it, period—and learned who I was as a result. The beginner version of this strategy is to post every single article you
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Craig Mod • Post-Artifact Books and Publishing
Self-publishers would maximize their e-book revenues by individually loading the e-book on each self-publishing platform: B&N Nook, Kobo, Apple iBooks, Google Play, and even a smaller marketer like Smashwords. If you go directly to each of these platforms, you will pay no fee to a distributor.