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Enter “Nook Press”, Barnes & Nobels’ Self-Publishing Platform
by, Claire Webber
April 30, 2013
Nook Press, Barnes and Nobels newest self-publication platform, offers tools for easy self publication.

Not content to let Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing be the powerhouse of the self-publishing world, Nook Media (a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble) is rolling out Nook Press, its own self-publishing platform for eBooks. What completely sets Nook Press apart from Kindle Direct Publishing is the integrated feature of composing, editing and formatting your book within the platform instead of uploading and converting a file… [Read More]

Filed Under: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, e-books, Kindle Direct, Self-publishing platform
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Visual Storytelling: from film to books and the possibilities in between
by, Danielle Sherwood
February 21, 2012

Last month, I reviewed a graphic novel/interactive documentary called KENK: A Graphic Portrait. This journalistic comic was the first release for Toronto-based multimedia production and publishing company Pop Sandbox, and it was met with a hoard of accolades and reviews within its first three months of release. I was lucky enough to snag an interview with Alex Jansen, the owner and operator of Pop Sandbox,… [Read More]

Filed Under: apps, documentary, e-books, Eastgate, graphic novels and comic books, Home Entertainment and Distribution, hypertext fiction, interactive documentary, Kenk: A graphic portrait, Mongrel Media, narrative experience, National Film Board (CAN), Pop Sandbox Productions and Publishing, Sparrow Song, surviving suicide, The Next Day, Toronto Film Festival, visual storytelling
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10 Awful Truths About Book Publishing by Piersanti
by, Jill Swenson
August 7, 2011

Steven Piersanti, the President of Berrett-Koehler Publishers, recently updated his 2009 report on the publishing industry earlier this summer. Previously I posted an essay here that referenced Piersanti’s points raised in 2009 and how authors could overcome the 10 big mistakes big publishers make (February 28, 2011). Piersanti’s assessment in 2011 reflects the changes in technology and the economy in the past two years. In… [Read More]

Filed Under: Authors, Berrett-Koehler, bookstores, Borders bankruptcy, e-books, Kindle, marketing books, Publishers, Publishing industry, Steve Piersanti, Writers
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Getting Your Book Published
by, Jill Swenson
February 5, 2011

In my last blog post I recommended Writer’s Digest 2011 Guide to Literary Agents. You may not be ready to get an agent if you haven’t already studied The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published: How to Write It, Sell It, and Market It…Successfully! (Workman Publishing, 2010). Writers Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry previously published much of this how-to guidebook as Putting Your… [Read More]

Filed Under: Arielle Eckstut, David Henry Sterry, e-books, Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published, Putting Your Passion into Print, Social Media, Workman Publishing
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