More on E-books and E-publishing

[pjthompson]

As I’ve said before, I’ve been reading excessively and obsessively on this for months and months. I thought of doing a distillation post, but that proved far too cumbersome for the time I had to do it—and really, it’s not my call to make. Everyone has to make up their own mind on this, and I am far from being an expert experiencer.

So I’ve decided to post a sampling of what other people have said. These are not posted in any particular order, but there is both pro and con. I am probably leaving out somebody or some post that is essential to this discussion and will probably smack myself upside the head for it later, so if any of you think I should add anything to this list, leave the link or whatever in the comments and I’ll add an ETA section.

I hope this is helpful.

Ebooks and Self-Publishing – A Dialog Between Authors Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath

The Washington Post: Novel rejected? There’s An E-book Gold Rush!

Ilona Andrews: On E-books, Realistic Expectations (A 4-page, comprehensive analysis)

Tracy Marchini: Five Things I’ve Learned by E-publishing

The New York Times: Book Country by Penguin – Aspiring Authors Get Help Online

DGLM Literary Agency: If a Publisher or Agent Came Calling

Victorine Lieske: Reasons Why You Should Not Self-publish

David Rothstein: Midnight and I’m Not Famous Yet

Amanda Hocking: Some Things That Need to Be Said

Jim C. Hines: The Anti-NY Playbook (Bashing Commercial Publishing)

Ellen Fisher: Unexpected Loss of Income, or Why Indie Publishing Can Be a Bit Scary

Ellen Fisher: The Vulnerability of Being a Writer

ETA:

Kristine Kathryn Rusch — Trust Me.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch — Writing Like It’s 1999.

Jennifer Laughran — On Agency Agreements.

A. C. Crispin — The Interminable Agency Clause.

Victoria Strauss: The Gloves Are Off.

Forbes: Is there gold in your backlist?

Book View Café Blog/Brenda Hough - Getting Your Backlist Up: A Report from the 2011 Nebulas. Chock full of helpful links and how-to's—a great place to start. Thanks to sartorias for providing the link on her blog.

Dear Author - Why DRM Won’t Be Abandoned Soon.

DGLM Literary Agency - If you get it for free…

Sean Cregan/John Richards - Price, Insanity and The Race To The Bottom.

John Vorhaus at Writer Unboxed - Let’s Have a Pity Party.

Ellen Fisher - Intriguing.

Richards Parks - Good Idea, Bad Idea (Ebooks) and Good Idea, Bad Idea - Continued.

Guido Henkel - Take pride in your eBook formatting. This is part one of a nine part series. You can click through from here to the other posts.

Smashwords - How to Publish and Distribute Ebooks with Smashwords.

Blood Geek cover design by F-Bod Studios.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Comments

[eclectic-writer.livejournal.com]

This list is awesome! Going into memories immediately. :D I've been pretty interested in epubbing lately too, so it's nice to have a list of links like this.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

It's just a drop in the bucket of the posts out there. Very hot topic.

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

you are the shit! Thank you!

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

Who you callin' a shithead? ;-)

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing, PeeJ!

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

Glad to.