TBInman

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by TBInman 13y ago
All interesting and useful stuff. I would be interested to talk to some of those that enlisted outside help in getting the final finished product together about their experiences (particularly those of using elance etc for these kind of ser
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by TBInman 13y ago
Seconded
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by TBInman 13y ago
Hi, thanks for making yourself available to questions (and congrats, of course)! I wanted to ask you about (for want of a better phrase) softer metrics and your experience of writing a book. How has your new status as author impacted on tho
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by TBInman 13y ago
Great to see 99designs in there. I am of the opinion that digital marketplaces will be the future of self-publishing services, by providing writers with the opportunity to connect with providers with 'in-house' experience. Can mak
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by TBInman 13y ago
Yes, I'd be interested to hear about this too - my suspicion is that ppc ads will have a pretty woeful ROI for books (would love to be proved wrong).
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by TBInman 13y ago
OP here. Not blog spam, just an introduction to the book (which you can access directly here: http://www.scribis.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/The-Scribi... )
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Self-Publishing: Pulling Back the Curtain(scribis.com)
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by TBInman 13y ago
Much like Neil, I think that physical made-out-of-dead-tree-books are pretty fantastic devices for delivering information to our brains. But the stats for digital book take up are pretty staggering. I don't think this means anything in
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by TBInman 13y ago
Interesting. The end of the NetBook Agreement in the UK (1995) which opened up the era of chain book stores and the discount supermarket book has definitely had a massive, often overlooked impact. The book industry don't like or get Am
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by TBInman 13y ago
Yes, and it's undeniably nice to be able to buy books and CDs at what are effectively wholesale prices. I'm less convinced that kindle and e-ink e-readers in general are the future. Trends suggest that more and more people are rea