One of the often lamented aspects of self publishing is that despite the myriad of awesome opportunities we have to publish digitally through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and others, we do not have the opportunity to give stuff away for free like the publishing companies do. Or do we? Certainly we can’t list work for […]
So Borders filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. Anybody surprised? Anybody? No? Only Borders themselves? It’s been a long time coming. I knew it was gonna happen as soon as they announced their Bookbrewer program, which I commented on here. Really bad business decision on their part. Let’s assume that all self publishers are STUPID and […]
We interrupt our regularly scheduled Part 4 of my Tome About Promo For Indies to make a Public Service Announcement. In a Fail that makes the keyword screw up (still not fixed, btw) seem like small potatoes, last night, many Pubit authors, myself included, became aware that our books were marked as Public Domain (and […]
Ok first, I’ll do my #ROW80 check-in. My goal is to write 750 words a day (average). Sunday I wrote 955 words, Monday 864, Tuesday 51. Um, yeah. Tuesday I got back in my hero’s head and he’s still being difficult. Dude it is HARD to write teenage boys! So I’ve got some making up […]
So I read the announcement about Borders partnering with Bookbrewer a while back and have been saving my commentary on it for a day when I didn’t have anything else I wanted to talk about. The short version, I think Borders should be absolutely ashamed of themselves. Now if they had rolled out BookBrewer as […]
I started feeling kind of weird at work yesterday, staying absolutely freezing even though it was 70 degrees and I was wearing TWO sweaters, one of them wool. Felt worse by bed, and still felt cruddy this morning, so I took a sick day and went back to bed so that my body can fight […]
They made the announcement early in the summer that Pubit!, Barnes and Noble’s version of the Digital Text Platform we’ve all come to know from Amazon, would be available by the end of summer. I can’t say that I agree with BN that the last week of September is the end of Summer (although, hey, […]