It’s been relatively quiet around Casa Testerman for the past week or so. There was a trip to Philadelphia, thick with unexciting wardrobe malfunctions, but otherwise I’m plugging along with writing, reading, and trying to get these damn habits locked in. Lemme sum up: Reading: It’s been a very good month for me as far [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Books’
The New Frontier of Indie Publishing has already been Mapped Out (on a Battlemat)
Before I get into this, I need to lay out a couple concepts that I’m referencing here. Concept One: The Long Tail “The Long Tail” describes the “niche” strategy of businesses like Amazon.com or Netflix which can be expressed – in my own words – as “sell many different products, in relatively small quantity, per [...]
Why all the indie-publishing posts, Doyce?
I’m being interviewed by another writing site in a few days (this one live, via Skype, with someone in Austrailia – it’s is SO COOL to live in the future), and they were kind enough to send me some of the questions they planned to ask, so I could get my thoughts in order. (Good [...]
How to give readers their tree-book fix as an indie author?
Publishing today is a confusing mess of issues. Am I doomed to slave wages as a mid-list author? Worse, will I end up losing money? Does the ‘vanity press’ stigma still exist? If so, does it exist for the reader, or just the publishers? If you’re publishing indie, are you stuck with e-books? If not, [...]
Penguin demonstrates it can be taught
Penguin Reaches out to Literary Bloggers. Last week, literary bloggers around the country debated the SXSW Festival’s “New Think for Old Publishers” panel that included Penguin marketing director, John Fagan. The result was a wake-up call to the publishers on the panel – a debate that was described by my lovely wife as “brutal”. Since [...]
Simon & Schuster reducing e-book royalties
Simon & Schuster reducing e-book royalties | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home. Doesn’t make any sense. The main thing publishers do for writers today is handle the complexities of publishing. The complexities of publishing are vanishing. The complexities of e-publishing were never there to begin with. What the blue hell do publishers – How can [...]
Publetariat Interview: New mediums, Twitter, and storytelling
Last week, I was interviewed by April over at Publetariat about the story I’m telling via Twitter. As one of the central touchstones for the indie publishing movement, she thought the whole idea of creating a story via Twitter — something that would really never transfer to paper in its original format — was interesting, [...]
Publishing is changing. Publishers? Well…
Piracy and changing distribution schema will not kill the publishing industry. Shortsighted infrastructure-protection on the part of publishing houses will. So speaks Susan Piver in an article in which she implores publishers not to make all the same mistakes as the music biz. What offed the music business—and what the publishing industry is facing—is a [...]
