Posts tagged indie-publishing
Track Indie Book Sales Reports The Easy Way and Visualize Your Data
The 15th of the month is an important day for all of us indie-publishers and writers. It’s a day both eagerly anticipated and dreaded. It’s the day Amazon releases their monthly Kindle sales reports – in a horribly messed up spreadsheet. For me, the 15th of the month is a day of general taking stock…
Why FREE and PAID Don’t Contradict
We’re living in the 21st century but in many ways we are still looking at life through 20th century glasses. It is this conflict or clash that characterizes most contemporary debates about privacy and copyright. From Mass Production To “Handcrafted” Digital Artefacts In the wake of the Industrial Revolution, humanity became accustomed to the consumption…
Print On Demand Revisited: Lulu vs. CreateSpace
Before I started experimenting with creating ebooks for Kindle & Co last year, I briefly looked into print on demand services. Since in the pre-Internet days I had always been printing and xeroxing stories to share them with friends and family, I was only happy to find out that I could finally “outsource” my time…
An Alternative to Smashwords And The Horrors Of The MeatGrinder
If you write and publish ebooks in English these days while not being a US-citizen, there are many hoops to jump through. Many authors have been discouraged by the stories alone and stopped the journey before they even started. Payment and tax issues aside, a big problem is that it’s very difficult to get your…
How To Patch The Summer Hole
It’s that time of the year again when everyone’s on holiday, chilling out in pools and seaside resorts. Many politicians and sports institutions are on holiday and the newspapers and TV stations are struggling to find newsworthy material, so they run inanities. In English this season is called “The Silly season”, the Germans call it…