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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A quick post today, which bounces off my post earlier in the year, “What Your 2023 Business Year will Look Like…Maybe“ Anne R. Allen, who is an expert in author blogging, recently ran a post on her site, “Why Blogging is Essential in the Era of Fragmenting Social Media.” The very last point in her
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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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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
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 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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