Posted on March 31, 2008 by shannonyarbrough
Thanks to Veinglory over at PodPeep again for bringing this letter from Amazon to our attention in regards to the recent matter addressed in my previous post about Amazon monopolizing the POD printing industry by requiring all POD publishers to use their BookSurge company for printing or the BUY button of their books would be [...]
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Posted on March 28, 2008 by shannonyarbrough
Although I had already planned to blog about it when I got home from work today , and I’m sure most of you have heard about it by now, per Veinglory’s request I’d like to voice a bit of my outrage about Amazon’s recent approach to Publish America to use Booksurge as a printing source [...]
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Posted on March 25, 2008 by shannonyarbrough
As March draws to a close, I’d like to thank the 1,000+ visitors who have visited the site during its first month. I’d like to thank the four authors who’ve been reviewed thus far: thank you for producing, writing, composing, and editing such great work that beats the POD stigma. And thanks to those who’ve [...]
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Posted on March 21, 2008 by shannonyarbrough
My New-Found Land
by Ann Pino
Copyright: © 2008
521 Pages
$6.00 E-book
$14.95 Paperback
What draws us to the personal diaries of others? Remember reading Anne Frank’s back in high school? While recently on vacation, I picked up a brochure type stapled printing of a Civil War diary a woman had self-published and made available in [...]
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Posted on March 6, 2008 by shannonyarbrough
The Populist Publisher recently did a survey, of which I was a part of, concerning what POD authors thought of their publishing experience. Although only 62 authors filled out the online survey, the results were posted today and were very interesting.
Read the complete results here!
But here is a rundown…
Lulu was represented in the survey, although [...]
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Posted on March 6, 2008 by shannonyarbrough
Has anyone taken advantage of a Lulu Marketing Kit? For $39.95, you get 24 postcards, 48 bookmarks, and 120 business cards.
There are plenty of websites out there these days offering free business cards. All you have to do is pay for shipping. Unless you are doing a lot of marketing on foot, [...]
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Posted on March 3, 2008 by shannonyarbrough
The Curse of the Ram’s Head
by Thomas Graham
Copyright: © 2007
72 pages
Free E-book
$8.75 Paperback
I don’t recall the last time I read a book I’d classify as Young Adult Fiction. (No, I haven’t read one single word of J.K. Rowling.) But I am glad to have picked up Thomas Graham’s The [...]
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