Digital Publishing
Barnes & Noble's PubIt! self-publishing system is extremely simple to use. You can, quite literally, have your book published in their system in minutes. For free. Just we showed with our How To: ePublish Through Kindle Direct article, the modern self-publishing portals are no more complicated than setting up a Gmail account. There are a couple of small tricks, but we're going to … [Read more...]
Recently, UWS completed a couple of websites for new clients. As always with such things there is a little training involved. Nothing complex, just some basics about how to use Categories and Tags, what widgets do, how the sidebars are set up. Things like that. One of those clients recently posted an article about how blogging (or the lack of) had impacted his sales. This spawned a … [Read more...]
There's been a recent little dust-up about the best seller list on B&N, especially their Nook best sellers. The accusation that's floating around is that B&N is deliberately manipulating the data to artificially rank the more expensive main stream publisher books on the list, forcing out the cheaper Indies. I feel pretty confident when I say that B&N is NOT manipulating data. They are … [Read more...]
Writing challenges are a fantastic way to jump start (or finish!) a novel. Many writers know about NaNoWriMo, the hugely popular writing competition where participants attempt to write a 50,000 word novel in just 30 days. It is an excellent event, and one I highly recommend. I did NaNoWriMo last year and it not only energized me to finally write the book I'd had in my head, but it also … [Read more...]
What makes an expert? Knowledge? Experience? Or acceptance? There are a lot of experts in our daily lives. We see their books on the shelves, hear their voices on radio and see their faces on TV. But what is it that made them experts? In an attempt to answer that question, here's a quick case study of three experts, all from the financial arena. Who Are "The … [Read more...]
