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(Authors note: I originally imagined this ‘hybrid shopping’ or ‘hybrid retail’ experience as an innovation within the Amazon empire. On reflection it seems to me that perhaps this is the kind of opportunity traditional publishers such as Hachette, Penguin Random House, Harper Collins or Simon and Schuster could take up. There is an opportunity to […]

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After welcoming his friend Israel Wren to San Francisco, Harvey Milk promptly leaves Israel to look after his apartment while Harvey and his boyfriend Scott escape to a romantic weekend away. On his first night alone in the flat Israel is dismayed to discover an extremely famous movie star in the lounge room nervously smoking […]

The smell inside the cabin of the Air Mozambique DC 10 implied someone was trying to smuggle a live animal from Paris to Maputo. When I brought the stewardess’ attention to the fact that I suspected there was a live goat three rows back she smiled graciously and gave me a triple shot of gin […]

I just found a page offering a free PDF download of my newly published book in both pdf and epub. They offer my book for free in exchange for personal details. http://www.masszip.com/tag/gp-field/ There has also been a youtube vid advertising it as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSMmP... As I suspected, this looks like a scam and, given no […]

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. I was supposed to have an organised, scheduled, timetabled launch. The Kindle version was supposed to ready and available. The media that I’m only just doing now was supposed to be hitting the presses just before I was doing my launch at the local library. Oh well, it […]

 1 – Mark Coker: Mark is the founder of Smashwords, an ebook self-publishing and distribution platform. Mark is also the author of the Smashwords Guides Series, a free online resource with a comprehensive set of guides to making and marketing ebooks. I read his books first because they were free and because a person with […]

 Self-publishing is a bit like the Gold Rushes of the 1800’s right now. There’s gold in them thar hills, but just like back then, chaos and opportunity brings scoundrels and grifters. I’ve spent a year or so poking around this space trying to figure it out – you will need to do that too if […]

Have you got an idea for a book? Of course you do. What about a series? No? One thing I learned over a decade of hand-selling books is that best-selling authors have a brand. Most obviously there are people like EL James and JK Rowling who set up a series with a breakout book and […]