Show #12
This week on the IndieBookMan Show, we are talking about Your Website.
Well, maybe not your website specifically, but what your website should be… could be. What should your bookselling website include? What shouldn’t it? What will make it dynamic, exciting and easy to manage? What is a “Joomla?”
Hear answers to [...]

Audiobooks are pretty popular. I listen to them when I am on long roadtrips, but I know many of you listen to them much more frequently. And now that we can podify them to our phones, tablets, mp3 players, netbooks etc. they are even more convenient.
And there a tons of major-label pop titles [...]

As you may know (because it’s most likely where you read IndieBookMan posts) all of the posts from this blog are pulled into facebook and displayed as “notes” on the IndieBookMan fan page.
Well, there were two problems with this setup, and I have fixed them both.
The first is that the “& Friends” kinda got [...]

BestsellerBound is a new forum created specifically for indie authors to share their books with other authors. Hang out with writers in your genera, and talk about your book, how you write/publish/market it – getting and giving tips that will likely help yourself and other in the indie pub journey.
If the site takes off, [...]

That seems to be the question I’m being forced to ask myself.Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer yet another techie, time-eating attempt at book promotionOr to take arms ‘gainst a sea of silliness and by going offline, end it.
In the last few days (my apologies if you were hoping for more mangled Shakespeare), [...]

Slate today has an interesting little article about how Sony can beat the Kindle. Essentially, they boil their suggested strategy down to the following: “Study everything the iPod’s rivals did. Then do the exact opposite.”
Heh.
Since I love my iPhone as much as I am wary of the Kindle, this sentence could have [...]

I have added a new feature to AuthorsBookshop.com this week, and I wanted to let you know about it.
“Social tagging” has gotten pretty big over the past year or so. What is social tagging? It’s allowing content on a website to be “tagged” or “shared” with the number of social networking sites that [...]

So, the new Kindle is set for release this month. I have to say, I haven’t really boughten into the whole e-book phenomenon (and I am definitely not alone in that) but I have to admit I am starting to feel like that weird old guy who still insists that music sounds better on [...]

Excerpted from my chapter in AuthorsAccess’ upcoming book tentatively titled Authors Access: 50 Success Secrets for Authors and Publishers. My chapter is titled Successfully Selling Your Book Online.
In it, I list 10 (almost) free things you should be doing to sell your book online. I wanted to share them here as well.
5) Social networking sites: [...]

Most printers seem to play their pricing card pretty close to their vest. I’ve never really understood why, other than price fluctuations might make posted pricing frequently obsolete. If you know why, please drop a comment below to explain.
With most printers, you are invited to call, or email for a quote. They [...]