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At about the same time indie authors started flocking to Amazon to self-publish through Kindle (and then, if they wanted to, also through Amazon’s CreateSpace for print book editions), Amazon started publishing.
Mike Shatzkin • The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Pinterest for Authors: Use Pinterest to Find New Readers and Sell More Books
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What we’ve not yet addressed is the $1.25 billion consumer nontraditional US book industry—books created by individuals or entities that are not commercial publishers—that accounted for 297 million units sold in 2016. This is a full 20 percent of the roughly $6 billion traditional US trade book market.
Mike Shatzkin • The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®
The most popular publishing strategy was to finish my book or product, and then as I was “preparing to launch,” go ballistic with press and ads and blog posts—all of which required a huge investment of either time or money or both.
Nicolas Cole • The Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention
Kindlepreneur with Dave Chesson. In this sense, Dave’s blog has almost nothing to do with sharing and scaling his own thoughts, stories, opinions, and insights, and is more centered around building a brand and “ultimate encyclopedia” of knowledge for anything related to one singular topic: self-publishing.