By JA Marlow, on May 4th, 2012 Kris Kathryn Rusch’s blog was hacked about 12 hours after she posted an update to the infamous Royalty Statement. For anyone who didn’t read it, it was reporting ebook sale underreporting by many major book publishers. It’s gone on to be one of her most famous posts, and people still talk about it.
Not only [...]
By JA Marlow, on April 19th, 2012 This article is not about the story itself. It will assume you have finished the work in questions and are now making the hard decisions that come with publishing. One of the most time-consuming is putting together the front matter and the back matter of an ebook for the first time.
Yes, we can use [...]
By JA Marlow, on April 10th, 2012 “For our customers who are avid readers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, we’re happy to introduce 47North, the latest imprint from Amazon Publishing. 47North offers a wide array of new novels and cult favorites, from urban fantasies to space operas, alternate histories to gothic and supernatural horror.”
As I write science fiction, this is [...]
By JA Marlow, on March 15th, 2012 I thought I posted about this, but a look through the archive shows I didn’t. Oops!
Smashwords today announced a distribution agreement with Baker & Taylor, one of the world’s largest distributors of physical and digital books.
The agreement will expand distribution for nearly 100,000 Smashwords books to new devices and markets.
There are two [...]
By JA Marlow, on February 27th, 2012 A recent post from Lazette Gifford struck a chord for me. Her “Zette’s Take: The Power of Attitude” was inspired from a previous post titled “Procrastination”.
“My last blog post brought me a couple interesting letters. One was on the value of having a clean house, which I agree with . . . in theory. [...]
By JA Marlow, on December 31st, 2011 2011 Business Plan in Review
Start up publishing company
Check! Doing it was easy. Finding a name for the publishing company was hard. It took almost two months of thinking, putting up ideas on a dry-erase board, and researching domain names before I settled on “Star Catcher Publishing.”
Set up Distribution and Retailer Accounts
Again, [...]
By JA Marlow, on December 21st, 2011 Wow, it’s amazing what a year can do to plans. Way back in December 2009 I created a business plan for writing which included writing and submitting multiple novels to publishers in order to increase the odds of hitting the right editor at the right time. 2010 increased the writing, and also took advantage of [...]
By JA Marlow, on December 9th, 2011 Amazon has announced a special ebook lending library for Prime subscribers. In the past several days they have sent emails out to the authors and publishers who use their KDP platform inviting them to join.
“We’re excited to introduce KDP Select – a new option dedicated to KDP authors and publishers worldwide, featuring a fund [...]
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Available Ebook Formats The works of J.A. Marlow are available in a wide number of formats including DRM-Free. Below is a list of the primary retailers the various formats can be found at, but do not include Kobo, Sony, Diesel, Drive Thru Scifi, and others.
Mobi (Kindle compatible): Amazon, Omnilit/All Romance Ebooks, Smashwords, Xinxii
Epub (Nook compatible): Barnes & Noble, Omnilit/All Romance Ebooks, Smashwords, Xinxii, iBookstore
PDF: Omnilit/All Romance Ebooks, Smashwords, Xinxii
Palm DOC/iSolo (Palm compatible): Omnilit/All Romance Ebooks, Smashwords
RTF (Rich Text Format): Smashwords
LRF (Older Sony Reader format): Smashwords
Plain Text: Smashwords
Online Reading (HTML): Smashwords
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