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The biggest problem facing book publishing
publishing
books
6 weeks ago by patrickrhone
"Revolutions enable the impossible at the same time they destroy the perfect."
6 weeks ago by patrickrhone
A Book Apart, Welcome
6 weeks ago by patrickrhone
A Book Apart publishes highly detailed and meticulously edited examinations of single topics. We produce brief books of about 100 pages—the perfect size in terms of subject depth and coverage for topics like HTML5, CSS3, content strategy, responsive web design, and more.
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design
web
webdesign
6 weeks ago by patrickrhone
How To Write A Successful Book Proposal - BubbleCow
6 weeks ago by patrickrhone
Though there is no one standard book proposal, there are a number of tricks and tips you can use to produce a book proposal with a great chance of being spotted by an agent or publisher. In this article we give away all the secrets we have learned about writing a good book proposal. If you follow all the steps outlined then you should end up with a commercial standard book proposal.
books
publishing
6 weeks ago by patrickrhone
Sales Rank Tracking for Author Book Sales on Amazon | NovelRank
7 weeks ago by patrickrhone
NovelRank is a completely free website for authors to track their Amazon Sales Rank on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.fr, Amazon.de (Germany), Amazon.co.jp (Japan), Amazon.cn (China),Amazon.it (Italy), and Amazon.es (Spain). NovelRank is the best free resource for self-promoting authors to track their print and ebook sales and Sales Rank on Amazon with charting, RSS feeds, and real-time data.
amazon
books
sales
writing
7 weeks ago by patrickrhone
How To Self Publish A Book » Layout, Design, Publish, & Market Your Work
7 weeks ago by patrickrhone
One of the biggest hurdles to the self-published author is producing a book that looks professional. This site will help you make a good-looking layout for your book, as well as make a professional-quality cover.
publishing
books
7 weeks ago by patrickrhone
The Bookshop
books
11 weeks ago by patrickrhone
Italo Calvino's 1979 book, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, is a novel that sees you, the reader, attempting to buy and read Italo Calvino's novel, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. In one particular passage of the story's first chapter, the following types of books are listed as you navigate a bookshop, eager to locate Calvino's.
11 weeks ago by patrickrhone
infovore/pinboard-bookmachine · GitHub
12 weeks ago by patrickrhone
Bookmachine takes your Pinboard links and makes paperback books of them: one 6"x9" book a year.
books
pinboard
12 weeks ago by patrickrhone
Infovore » A Year of Links
february 2012 by patrickrhone
"I thought it would be interesting to produce a kind of personal encylopedia: each volume cataloguing the links for a whole year. Given I first used Delicious in 2004, that makes for eight books to date."
books
inboard
publishing
february 2012 by patrickrhone
Sourcefabric
february 2012 by patrickrhone
Booktype is a free, open source platform that produces beautiful, engaging books formatted for print, Amazon, iBooks and almost any ereader within minutes. Create books on your own or with others via an easy-to-use web interface. Build a community around your content with social tools and use the reach of mobile, tablet and ebook technology to engage new audiences.
books
ebooks
publishing
software
february 2012 by patrickrhone
Apple didn’t make publishing easier… - The Domino Project
january 2012 by patrickrhone
"Apple didn’t make publishing easier... They made it easier to get your ideas into digital print. There’s a huge difference between printing and publishing." — @sethgodin
apple
publishing
ibooks
books
from twitter
january 2012 by patrickrhone
A Girl You Should Date « nona merah
january 2012 by patrickrhone
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
books
january 2012 by patrickrhone
Advice for authors, part one and part two
january 2012 by patrickrhone
Seth's really good advice.
books
publishing
writing
january 2012 by patrickrhone
Farewell, Paper Books
december 2011 by patrickrhone
"I do better in the medium to long term and one prediction that see coming true is the idea that ebooks will eventually become the default form of accessing long-form prose."
books
ebooks
publishing
december 2011 by patrickrhone
How much should an ebook cost? - The Domino Project
december 2011 by patrickrhone
"Because the answer isn’t up to one author or one publisher or even a price-fixing cartel. It’s up to the market, which is a far more complicated entity. There are no shoulds in the market, just reality."
books
publishing
ebooks
december 2011 by patrickrhone
Seth's Blog: The last hardcover
november 2011 by patrickrhone
This actually makes me kind of sad. I have enjoyed every one of these I've bought.
books
publishing
from twitter
november 2011 by patrickrhone
The last hardcover
november 2011 by patrickrhone
"If you're an author, pick yourself. Don't wait for a publisher to pick you. And if you work for a big publishing house, think really hard about the economics of starting your own permission-based ebook publisher. Now's the time."
books
publishing
writing
november 2011 by patrickrhone
Prompt Me!™ – Paper Coterie
november 2011 by patrickrhone
"Prompt Me will create your book using your responses to a series of creative questions, fun prompts, and photos. Let Prompt Me help you document the beauty of life well lived."
Neat idea.
books
Neat idea.
november 2011 by patrickrhone
The social life of marginalia
october 2011 by patrickrhone
I've long been fascinated with commonplace books. – The social life of marginalia (via Instapaper)
commonplace
books
writing
from instapaper
october 2011 by patrickrhone
Small Demons — Welcome to the Storyverse
october 2011 by patrickrhone
It all begins here. Suppose someone took every meaningful detail from all the books you love. Every song mentioned, every person, every food or place or movie title. And what if they did that for all the books everyone else loves, too. The ones you’ve never heard of. Suddenly you’ve got a whole world of seemingly random people, places and things, all gathered in one place.
books
october 2011 by patrickrhone
OR Books — About Us
october 2011 by patrickrhone
"OR Books is a new type of publishing company. It embraces progressive change in politics, culture and the way we do business. Our list is highly selective: we publish just one or two books a month, combining established authors with new discoveries. Our editorial standards are fastidious; our design clear and elegant."
Publisher of "Program or Be Programmed" which is essential reading.
publishing
books
Publisher of "Program or Be Programmed" which is essential reading.
october 2011 by patrickrhone
Personal Canon
october 2011 by patrickrhone
"These are the pieces that I find myself referencing regularly in my work life, the pieces I wish everyone would read. Big, small, philosophical, practical, and between."
I like this idea of a list of things that are influencing you.
inspiration
books
reference
I like this idea of a list of things that are influencing you.
october 2011 by patrickrhone
Napier’s Bones: math and mysticism make for great international adventure – Boing Boing
may 2011 by patrickrhone
I'm not a huge fiction fan but this book about mystic mathematicians sounds awesome. — Napier's Bones
books
scifi
from twitter_favs
may 2011 by patrickrhone
Kelly McCullough on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Kelly+McCullough&x=0&y=0)
april 2011 by patrickrhone
You should also check out @kellydmcc's fine body of work:
writing
scifi
books
friends
from twitter
april 2011 by patrickrhone
Would Shakespeare tweet?
february 2011 by patrickrhone
So happy to be a Writer living in the future — RT @evbogue Would Shakespeare tweet? - Seth Godin via @projectdomino
books
publishing
from twitter
february 2011 by patrickrhone
Inventing a Planet » The God Who Writes Books
january 2011 by patrickrhone
Those that believe, believe in the power of words. An important post from @jamesshelley:
writing
religion
books
from twitter
january 2011 by patrickrhone
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