In the old days, you could pretty much set anything outside and leave it. Similarly, blogs were originally online journals, where you said whatever you wanted - and devil take the hind parts. Now, with the amount of scrutiny Google is giving to blogs (and the amount of authority...

Blurb Review This came up as I was looking at alternatives to Lulu (namely: CreateSpace) and Blurb's name came up as a Print-on-Demand solution which also ported to Ingram and elsewhere. Pluses: To begin with, it costs you nothing to upload your book. Chiefly they make their money...

Just saw how Books A Million is "opening up" for self-publishing - here's my review. In short: Vanity Publishing still lives. Why I can't/won't use them: Their interface won't allow epubs to be uploaded, and has to be done by chapter. PDF's aren't readily accepted (while they are...

Selling an (e)book online isn't all that hard... ...finding places that will sell for you is more difficult. (photo: wikipedia) Of course, that seems to be contrary - and it's something all authors have been through. You can't just figure that Amazon is going to sell any of...