Why I Don’t Like Reading Books


As a person who loves reading and has bought and read literally thousands of books, I never thought I’d say it, but I don’t like reading books anymore. It’s not that I don’t enjoy reading stories, or novels, nonfiction, etc. – it’s that I don’t like reading books.  That’s right, the ink-on-paper all bound in [...]

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Should I Self-Publish? (Part 1)


Please note this is first in a series.
As most of you know, I work for an online publisher/retailer (albeit, for music publishing) and we sell several million dollars of downloadable content every year. Some of this is extremely popular, and some of it has a very small, but very devoted fanbase.
Our top 20 sellers make [...]

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Amazon Tags: The Latest Book Marketing Experiment


As I mentioned previously, my debut novel, The Trouble With Being God, is now available for purchase in both paperback and kindle format on Amazon.com.  Now that the book is up, I’m continuing my self-publishing marketing experiment, and trying out different methods of social viral marketing within Amazon itself, currently focusing on tagging.
As most of [...]

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Debut Novel on Amazon.com / Switching from Freemium to Premium


As already stated on the official book site, my debut novel, The Trouble With Being God, is now available for purchase at amazon.com.
Due to this wider availability of the book, the book is no longer available as a free download.  Previously I suggested that content creators offer their material as free to build up a [...]

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