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How to Make Money From Your Web Presence

March 29, 2011 by Nathan Bransford 96 Comments

It’s Day 2 of Author Monetization Week! Yesterday we looked at, you know, making money off that whole book thing. But come on, that’s SO 2007. Even as early as 2008, Paul Krugman was wondering if authors would soon find that the ancillary market is the market. With the advent of the Kindle he saw […]

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Filed Under: Book Marketing Tagged With: Publishing Economics

Self-Publishing vs. Traditional Publishing: Which Way Will You Make More Money?

March 28, 2011 by Nathan Bransford 101 Comments

It’s author monetization week! Monday through Thursday this week I’m going to have a series of posts on a crucial topic for the modern writer: How to make money. Today we’ll start with the books themselves. With the e-revolution (e-volution?) well underway, print sales are declining and there’s a great disparity between the amount an […]

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Why (Most) Publishers Are Still In New York

March 24, 2011 by Nathan Bransford 71 Comments

When publishing outsiders are suggesting cures for what ails the business, one very common suggestion is that publishers ditch their New York real estate and head for the sticks. Why do they need to pay Manhattan rent? Why indeed? Well, first this ignores that there are actually quite a few publishers outside of New York. […]

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Filed Under: Business of Publishing Tagged With: Publishing Economics, publishing industry

Why Some E-Books Cost More Than the Hardcover

March 10, 2011 by Nathan Bransford 112 Comments

The good people at Reddit recently noticed something peculiar and engaged in a spirited debate about it. The topic? A bete noir for many an e-book reader: E-books priced more than their print edition. How could this possibly be? Paper costs more than electrons, so surely e-books should be cheaper, right? Believe it or not, […]

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Filed Under: Business of Publishing Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, E-books, Future of Publishing, Publishing Economics

Amanda Hocking and the 99-cent Kindle millionaires

March 7, 2011 by Nathan Bransford 242 Comments

As Amanda Hocking said herself, “I don’t understand why the internet suddenly picked up on me this past week, but it definitely did.” And how. The writing world is abuzz about Amanda Hocking, the 26-year-old self-published author who sold over 450,000 copies of her e-books in January alone, mostly priced between 99 cents and $2.99. […]

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Filed Under: Self-publishing Tagged With: End of Publishing As We Know It, Kindle, Publishing Economics, Self-publishing

This Week in Books 3/4/11

March 4, 2011 by Nathan Bransford 60 Comments

Lots of links this week! Shall we? Some big news in the book world as Random House, the lone holdout among the six major publishers, has agreed to Apple’s terms and will be moving over to the agency model. What is the agency model? Well, this post of yore provides some background, but for readers […]

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