Jessica Park’s June 7th post on The Huffington Post—“How Amazon Saved My Life” (picked up from the IndieReader)—may well be the rallying cry for the eBooks self-publishing movement.
Archives: IEG
Self-Publishing Do’s and Don’t's
June 29, 2012
An excellent article about the ins and outs of self-publishing recently appeared on CNET.com. http://tiny.cc/dw7ngw It’s written by David Carnoy, Executive Editor at CBS Interactive and formerly an editorial director at a dotcom start-up. Most importantly, he wrote a novel called Knife’s Edge which he self-published against the advice of his agent, and lucked out [...]
Notes on Publishing Your Book with CreateSpace
June 29, 2012
You begin by going to the CreateSpace home page and navigate from there. First, you have to become a member and accept their Agreement and Terms of Use, copies of which I have sent separately. You will be put in touch with a CreateSpace Representative who will guide you through the initial stages. He will [...]
Some Notes on Independent or Self Publishing
November 4, 2011
By Paul De Angelis It seems that every day the avenues for self-publishing increase. The first big impetus came from new print-on-demand technology, which obviated the need to print fixed quantities of books: often these ended up sitting for decades in in garage of some hapless self-published author. E-books, the current big transformative phenomenon, threaten [...]
The IEG Visits the SPBE
May 16, 2011
THIS IS THE REPORT THAT BETTY SARGENT OFFERED LAST OCTOBER 3, RIGHT AFTER VISITING THE SPBE: What a difference a year makes! The Self-Publishing Book Expo yesterday at the Sheraton New York Towers was great, unlike last year. If you are interested in seeing who was there and what they were talking about just go [...]
