As an author, you’re not expected to know everything, just what you’re writing. Not all writers know the 10-codes that LEOs use, nor are the codes something you really need to memorize if you only need a squad to acknowledge a call or report that they’re 10-7 for lunch.
Category Archives: Self Publishing
Oakland Public Library, in partnership with RBdigital from Recorded Books, launches OneClickdigital, an online service that allows customers to check out eAudiobooks and eBooks, and Zinio, a digital magazine service offering multi-user access to popular publications.
Oakland Public Library (Oakland, CA) has partnered with RBdigital from Recorded Books (Prince Frederick, MD) to deliver two new electronic resources: Zinio for Libraries and OneClickdigital. Zinio for Libraries, awarded Best New Database of 2012 by Library Journal, is billed as the world’s largest newsstand, offering multi-user access to popular publications. OneClickdigital is an online service that allows patrons to check out eAudiobooks and eBooks, including bestsellers, Recorded Books exclusives, classics, and selections for children and young adults.
USA Today Bestselling author, Kelli Maine writes about the pros and cons of self publishing:
Sometimes you have to take the plunge, but which direction do you go? Not too long ago, this question wasn’t considered valid by “the industry”. If you self-published, it was because you couldn’t get an agent or you couldn’t get an editor to buy your book. But today, the game has turned on its head. You don’t need an agent or an editor to get books in reader’s hands and be considered a legitimate author.
While some very successful self-published authors still seek the validity of having their names on a book in Barnes and Noble, know that getting stocked in a bookstore is NOT a guarantee from even the big six publishers. Take it from someone who has a YA published by a big six publisher and zero books in bookstores. They can’t necessarily sell your book to book buyers any better than you could.
With fewer and fewer brick and mortar stores and the ones that are still around carrying an equal number of t-shirts, toys and One Direction dolls as books, there’s an ever shrinking amount of shelf space and if you can suck in your gut and hold your breath, you might be able to squeeze in between Cassie Clare and Veronica Roth.
You can read the whole article HERE.
Now customers don’t have to choose between eBooks and their favorite bookstore!
Indie bookstores can now work hand-in-hand with Amazon to confront the changing world of publishing. Bookstore owners often see ebooks and ebook readers as an adversary – and Amazon as the ultimate evil and destroyer of bookstores worldwide. That’s never been the case; without books and bookstores, Amazon wouldn’t exist. To work with bookstores, Amazon has started a new program that offers discounted Kindle hardware and a percentage of future ebook sales to booksellers who sell the hardware.
Daily email offers subscribers discounted eBooks, paperback books and audiobooks in various genres.
Discount Books Daily is a daily email newsletter for book lovers looking for deep discounts on genre-specific audiobooks, eBooks and/or paperback books. Membership is free and subscribers gain access to books from traditional publishers as well as top-notch independent authors. The vision is simple: make interesting, discounted books (in the genres and formats readers prefer) that are easy to find and easy to purchase.
Discount Books Daily aims to provide readers access to deeply discounted books without forgetting one truth: readers need and want choices. “We’re a team of readers. And though we have that in common, what we read and how we read is quite different. I might download a new book onto my tablet, but my partner Miles, who is a new dad, gets his best reading done listening to audiobooks during his work commute. There are also people like my husband who enjoy touching the cover of a book, dog-earing the pages and placing a book on their bookshelves. We don’t want to forget them,” says co-founder Tina Patterson.