This will be my final SXSW related post. I caught a couple publishing related sessions at SXSW. Here are a few ideas that caught my attention.
From:
The Self Publishing Novelist
John Sundman -
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Carolyn McCray
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Nicole Gallard
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Jeffrey Zeldman’s Awesome Internet Design Panel
Jeffrey Zeldman
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Dan Mall
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Mandy Brown
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RogerBlack
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- All authors need to have an indie self promoting attitude, published authors not excluded.
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This week has been a roller-coaster week for anyone who’s in the publishing and book industry.  Apple started out the week unveiling it’s new subscription service Tuesday allowing publishers to sell subscriptions on a weekly, monthly, yearly, or other period of time, instead of selling each issue separately like a newsstand in addition to other [...]

The digital publishing landscape is a very emotional place right now. There are lots of predictions, advice, and anecdotal information available. But there isn’t a whole lot of concrete data to support all the assertions out there.
With that conundrum in mind, we conducted a number of free promotions with our digital distributors. [...]

Recently, there have been a wide variety of posts on the web indicating the need to delay the release of eBooks so that the hardcover can have its moment with the consumer. I’ve heard both sides of the argument and tend to side with Seth Godin’s perspective that this is wrong-headed thinking.
If publishers delay [...]