{"id":7004,"date":"2010-07-08T08:50:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T12:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=7004"},"modified":"2010-07-08T08:51:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T12:51:36","slug":"some-advice-for-authors-on-self-publishing-and-ebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/07\/08\/some-advice-for-authors-on-self-publishing-and-ebooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Some advice for authors on self-publishing and ebooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some advice for authors on self-publishing and ebooks<\/a><\/strong> — from teleread.com<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

New vanity publishing?<\/a><\/strong> — from publishingguru.blogspot.com<\/p>\n

It’s a pretty good system for everyone involved in the making of a best-seller. Efficiency, ease of promotion, a pre-determined outcome, and everyone gets paid, even though about half of those hardcovers will eventually be composted, too. If you can publish a best-seller, you’d be crazy to publish anything else.<\/p>\n

If you are at the bottom end of the mid-list scale, you’d be crazy to give your book license away at current industry standards. Let’s examine the three publisher advantages in light of the modern digital\/print-on-demand landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some advice for authors on self-publishing and ebooks — from teleread.com and New vanity publishing? — from publishingguru.blogspot.com It’s a pretty good system for everyone involved in the making of a best-seller. Efficiency, ease of promotion, a pre-determined outcome, and everyone gets paid, even though about half of those hardcovers will eventually be composted, too. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[275,304,35,239,309,140,90],"tags":[704,762,719,240,640,81],"class_list":["post-7004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-textbooks","category-e-readers","category-game-changing-environment","category-new-business-models","category-platforms","category-publishing","category-englishwriting","tag-digital-textbooks","tag-e-books","tag-e-readers","tag-new-publishing-models","tag-publishing","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7004"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7008,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004\/revisions\/7008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}