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Have a Meeting of the Minds

by Brian Jud
Bowker | Wed Jun 18, 2014

Growing your business depends in large part on your ability to innovate – both content and marketing. Moving from your core business (trade sales) into special (non-bookstore) markets is an example. Creating a mastermind group can help you access the combined knowledge of others to help you make the move. To do this, build an environment in which people feel comfortable, willing and able to innovate. Here are the Top Ten Principles For Developing a Successful Mastermind Team.

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Create a Culture of Quality in Your Publishing Company

by Brian Jud
Bowker | Thu Jun 12, 2014

As the publisher, you are responsible for producing a quality product at all levels: writing, editing, design, printing, customer service and marketing (pricing, promotion and distribution). Poor quality – whether in product and service – can destroy a publishing venture over time. Negative word-of-mouth communication, whether in person, in blogs, in discussion groups and forums, or through social media spreads quickly and is difficult to overcome. While you cannot control what others say about you on these media, you can control the source of their pleasure or discontent by maintaining high levels of product and service quality. Here are Ten Aspects of Product and Service Quality.

 

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Shelf Unbound Magazine Launches Third Annual Contest to Discover the Best in Self-Published Books

by Laura Dawson
Bowker | Tue Jun 10, 2014

Book review magazine Shelf Unbound is accepting entries for its third annual competition to crown the best from independent presses, self-published authors and publishers producing five or less titles per year. The winning entry, selected by the editors of Shelf Unbound, will be featured with runners-up in the magazine's December/January 2015 issue – read by 125,000 book. This year's competition is sponsored by Bowker, the official U.S. ISBN registration agency and creator of SelfPublishedAuthor.com.

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Remember Our Survey!

by Laura Dawson
Bowker | Fri May 9, 2014

DCL & Bowker are interested in your digital publishing plans for 2014! As the demand increases for materials of all types to be available on mobile devices, publishers and authors are challenged with providing a quality eBook experience while managing costs and standards.

We'd be delighted if you'd answer the survey we've created, just to explore what we might be able to do for you. Enter to win a $100 American Express Gift Card!

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Join Us For A Webinar About Editorial!

by Laura Dawson
Bowker | Thu May 8, 2014

In conjunction with Digital Conversion Labs, Bowker's SelfPublishedAuthor.com is presenting a webinar on the editorial process with expert independent editor Ann Moller. Join us on Thursday, May 15th from 1-2 Eastern as we discuss the different types of editing, the value that good editorial brings to your book, and tactics for accepting constructive criticism! 

Register here!

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Use of ISNIs Among Authors Is Growing

by Laura Dawson
Bowker | Wed May 7, 2014

  

Use of ISNIs among authors is growing, according to a press release published today by ProQuest (Bowker - and by extension SelfPublishedAuthor.com - is a ProQuest affiliate). 

A new analysis of Bowker® Books In Print shows that a full 33 percent of its contributors have the ISO-certified International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) connected with their names and in use in the database. ISNI was created just over two years ago and has topped 8 million assignments, 2.33 million of which are represented in Books In Print, showing rapid uptake by authors and other contributors.

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Tax Time!

by Laura Dawson
Bowker | Sun Apr 13, 2014

Did you know that if you are a professional author, your professional activities can be tax deductible?

The following factors, although not all inclusive, may help you to determine whether your activity is an activity engaged in for profit or a hobby:

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Survey Says!

by Laura Dawson
Bowker | Wed Apr 9, 2014

DCL & Bowker are interested in your digital publishing plans for 2014! As the demand increases for materials of all types to be available on mobile devices, publishers and authors are challenged with providing a quality eBook experience while managing costs and standards.

We'd be delighted if you'd answer the survey we've created, just to explore what we might be able to do for you. Enter to win a $100 American Express Gift Card!

 

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Assuming the Risk for Your Own eBook - A DCL Webinar and White Paper

by Laura Dawson
Bowker | Tue Feb 18, 2014

On Tuesday, February 18, Bowker and DCL co-presented a webinar called Assuming the Risk for Your Own eBook. The white paper that accompanies this webinar is available here, or at the DCL website here.

Topics covered included:

  • Types of editorial processes - developmental, fact-checking, copy-editing
  • Designing your eBook - for different devices and platforms
  • Marketing best practices - courtesy of Sandra Poirier-Diaz of Smith Publicity
  • Distributing your ebook to different vendors

 

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Looking For Clues In A New Market

by Laura Dawson
Bowker | Mon Feb 17, 2014

In the world of self-publishing, one critical component that's been missing has been reliable data about how self-published books are selling. Last week, the self-published author Hugh Howey released some data on 7,000 ebooks on the Amazon bestseller list, from the mystery/thriller, romance, and science fiction genres. He posts his report here:

The other eye-popper here is that indie authors are outselling the Big Five. That’s the entire Big Five. Combined. Indie and small-press books account for half of the e-book sales in the most popular and bestselling genres on Amazon.

 Philip Jones, editor of The Bookseller's Futurebook blog, provides the following caution here:

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