Futurism

Why Now Is the Best Time to Be an Indie Fiction Writer

/ Futurism, Publishing & Production / 2 Comments

Jane Freidman, at her blog just a few days ago, wrote a post, “Like It or Not, Publishers Are Licensing Books for AI Training—And Using AI Themselves.”

The post is a refreshingly blunt take on how AI is settling into the publishing industry. I will leave it to Jane to explain how, even for indie authors, there is new money to made from the AI phenomenon, if you’re smart and wrangle your contracts.

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Why UX Will be the Critical Factor for Indies in the Years Ahead

/ Futurism, Technology, Tools & AI

I try to avoid making predictions about where the indie publishing world will go in the future.  I’ve seen futurists get things very wrong indeed, because some disruptive factor they could not possibly have predicted comes along to blow everyone’s expectations out of the water. AI-anything has done that to us in the last year

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What Your 2023 Business Year will Look Like…Maybe

/ Disaster Planning, Futurism, Publishing & Production, Story Concept

In January, I generally like to post about goals for the coming year, goal-setting, and motivation. But I’ve come across a bunch of articles and reports lately that speculate on what 2023 and onward might look like for indie authors, and realized that goal setting is useless, if you don’t have a good idea of

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If You’ve Ever Said “I wish I’d bought even a single BitCoin when they were first issued….”

/ Futurism, INDIE PUBLISHING, Technology, Tools & AI

This might be another of those moments 2007 was the year Amazon released their first Kindle eReader, and indie publishing took a light-year’s leap forward. I’ve often wondered if I would be any more successful if I’d jumped into indie publishing in 2007, rather than waiting another four years to commit. If you’ve ever said anything

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3 Reasons Why You’re Giving Up on Indie Publishing Too Soon

/ Discipline & Motivation, Futurism, INDIE PUBLISHING, PRODUCTIVITY & ORGANIZATION, Publishing & Production

3 Reasons Why You’re Giving Up on Indie Publishing Too Soon And 2 reasons why you SHOULD walk away. I’m an old hand at indie publishing (11 years, last March), so I’m kinda puzzled by the attitude I keep stumbling over…well, everywhere. Zulie Rane, in her Medium article, “5 Uber-Popular Passive Income Streams That Aren’t Worth the

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Google Has Made a Brilliant Strategic Move

/ Distribution, Futurism, Publishing & Production, Technology, Tools & AI

Google Has Made a Brilliant Strategic Move Why Indie Authors Should Capitalize on It In late April this year, Google Play Books announced the launch of an AI Narrated Audiobook beta program for indie authors and publishers using their retail platform. There’s a few conditions attached. Surprisingly few. It was an incredibly smart move. Here’s why.

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