Self Publishing 2.0

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-138004732010-04-30T07:58:33.430-07:00Self Publishing 2.0Print on Demand and ebook publishing have created a whole new model for publishing. Are POD and digital books the answer to an author's prayers, or just an evolutionary step between traditional publishing models and free Internet distribution?Morris Rosenthalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02366583952912843043noreply@blogger.comBlogger484125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13800473.post-1626803786162589182010-04-30T07:49:00.001-07:002010-04-30T07:58:33.445-07:00The Self Publishing Blog Has Moved

I've moved the Self Publishing blog to http://www.fonerbooks.com/selfpublishing. You can subscribe there or through http://feeds.feedburner.com/SelfPublishing20.In response to a recent comment, I've made the original archives, 485 posts worth, searchable with a Google appliance. The search box will be on the bottom of every page of the new blog, or you can access it directly here.I thank all of

Morris Rosenthalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02366583952912843043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13800473.post-60019182818553499932010-04-27T06:53:00.000-07:002010-04-27T07:21:32.965-07:00Blogging Sucks For Search And For Links

I thought a post about the failure of blogging as search strategy for authors would be appropriate for my final Blogger based post. I do intend to continue the Self Publishing 2.0 blog in some other form, but it will look very different starting next week. The reason I started blogging back in 2005 was simple. I had been promoting my POD publishing book through a collection of chapters excerpted

Morris Rosenthalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02366583952912843043noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13800473.post-23143259592062313722010-04-19T13:17:00.000-07:002010-04-22T06:29:30.518-07:00Pirate Mashups And Promoting eBook Rip-Offs

Everyone who publishes eBooks is familiar with piracy and widespread redistribution on file sharing networks by this point. Filing DMCA takedown requests for copyright infringement usually results in the offending site removing the file, and the offended pirate quickly reloading it, sometimes with a change to the file name or title to get past crude filtering techniques. But what happens when the

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