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		<title>5 Ways To Self-Publish Your Way To Your Own &#8220;Cottage Industry&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 03:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Vertrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like it or not, writers are entrepreneurs. This is especially true for indie authors who do it all: Write, publish, market and sell their own books. Indie authors are turning themselves into a small &#8220;cottage industry.&#8221; A cottage industry is basically where products are made at home, rather than at a manufacturing plant. I&#8217;ve covered [...]


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		<title>How Is Amazon Shaking Up The Publishing World Even More?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Vertrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon wants authors to deliver their books directly to readers by cutting out the middleman: Large publishing houses. The largest online retailer has been doing just that for a few years now by allowing authors to self-publish their ebooks and sell them in the massive Kindle ebookstore. But Amazon is getting into the &#8220;traditional&#8221; publishing [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.bradsreader.com/2011/05/amazons-death-blow-to-publishing-industry/' rel='bookmark' title='Amazon&#8217;s Death Blow To Publishing Industry'>Amazon&#8217;s Death Blow To Publishing Industry</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.bradsreader.com/2008/02/new-ebook-publishing-startup-places-power-in-the-hands-of-the-author/' rel='bookmark' title='New ebook publishing startup places power in the hands of the author!'>New ebook publishing startup places power in the hands of the author!</a></li>
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		<title>New Service Allows Authors To Write &amp; Publish Ebooks On Mobile Device</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 01:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Vertrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new start-up service called Instebooks is turning everyone with a cell phone into an author. If you have a mobile device, you can be an ebook author with relative ease. Writing ebooks via cell phone is nothing new. Back in 2009 I wrote a post about how popular these kind of novels are in [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.bradsreader.com/2011/06/multi-platform-ebook-service-coming-soon-but-not-in-the-us/' rel='bookmark' title='Multi-Platform Ebook Service Coming Soon (but not in the US)'>Multi-Platform Ebook Service Coming Soon (but not in the US)</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.bradsreader.com/2007/12/move-over-kindle-japan-is-way-ahead-in-the-ebook-game/' rel='bookmark' title='Move over Kindle, Japan is way ahead in the ebook game!'>Move over Kindle, Japan is way ahead in the ebook game!</a></li>
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		<title>Indie Author John Locke Sells 1 Million Kindle Ebooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Vertrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have said many times before that ebooks are opening the floodgates for independent (read: self-published) authors. Well the flood gates have really opened for indie author John Locke. He has sold 1 million Kindle ebooks through Amazon&#8217;s self-publishing program, Kindle Direct Publishing. Locke joins an elite group of big name authors like Charlaine Harris, [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.bradsreader.com/2010/01/5-lessons-learned-from-mega-bestselling-author-james-patterson/' rel='bookmark' title='5 Lessons Learned from Mega Bestselling Author James Patterson'>5 Lessons Learned from Mega Bestselling Author James Patterson</a></li>
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		<title>Can Cheaper Ebook Prices Mean Less Sales?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Vertrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: I started writing this post back in the middle of May, before moving to a new house. The article source I&#8217;m use is a little dated but the main thrust of my post remains relevant. I&#8217;ve advocated for a long time here that for ebook prices, cheaper is usually the way to go. At [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.bradsreader.com/2011/01/ken-follett-ebook-price-increases-by-2-sales-fall-48/' rel='bookmark' title='Ken Follett Ebook Price Increases by $2, Sales Fall 48%'>Ken Follett Ebook Price Increases by $2, Sales Fall 48%</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.bradsreader.com/2011/04/99-cent-ebooks-2-sides-to-the-debate/' rel='bookmark' title='99 Cent Ebooks: Are Low Prices Hurting Authors?'>99 Cent Ebooks: Are Low Prices Hurting Authors?</a></li>
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		<title>Why Would An Author Pirate His/Her Own Books?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 16:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Vertrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We often hear about authors and publishers speaking out against piracy and how piracy will be the death of the publishing industry. But rarely do we hear about authors pirating their own work. Is this some kind of publishing bizzaro world? I thought so when I first read this post from Goodreader. In part, it [...]


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		<title>The Grateful Dead And Social Networking</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Vertrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I follow the Grateful Dead on Facebook. They might be an older band that doesn&#8217;t get a whole lot of attention today, but they sure know how to capitalize on the latest social technology trends. Aside from giving bits of band history, updates on living band members and interesting GD trivia, fans who follow the [...]


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		<title>How Do You Make Millions Selling Ebooks? Ask Amanda Hocking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Vertrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note to publishers: Be afraid, very afraid. Because ebooks are allowing authors to self-publish their work and be very successful, without going the traditional publishing route. No one personifies this more than Amanda Hocking. She publishes her ebooks on the Kindle platform and, by all accounts, is making millions. No agent. No large publishing houses. [...]


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		<title>Barnes &amp; Noble Introducing Pubit! Authors To Stores</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Vertrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barnes &#38; Noble, the nation&#8217;s largest bookseller, announced today in a press release that their ebook self-publishing platform Pubit has 11,000 indie publishers and authors. In more interesting news, the bookseller also announced a new program that will bring Pubit! authors into their retail stores to talk about how they are using the platform to [...]


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		<title>Should Emerging Authors Skip Print And Go Straight To Ebooks?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 01:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Vertrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emerging authors have more choices than ever. They can go the traditional route of finding an agent, getting a publisher to buy their work, and rely on that publisher and large book chains to sell their book. Or they can self-publish their book as an ebook and sell it on their own websites and/or sites [...]


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