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What Brandon Sanderson's $14M+ Kickstarter Project Means
Book publishers should take note
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February 2022
May 2020
Boycott Amazon for May Day
Joining together is the only way to make change
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October 2019
Ch. 11: Bad Publishing Experiments
Amazon's exclusive subscription service is a bad deal for publishers
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September 2019
Ch. 10: Money tips for authors
Demystifying the mysterious
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Ch. 9: Self-publishing costs
A snapshot of the costs and challenges of self-publishing
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August 2019
Lunchtime Links 8.9.19
Bonuses for booksellers, more tariff talk, & how to hold clients responsible for late payments
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July 2019
Ch. 8: Career paths in publishing
or How I came to work at Kickstarter
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Boycott Amazon for Prime Day
Five reasons to give this capitalist "holiday" a miss
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June 2019
Lunchtime Links, 6.21.19
How to save journalism, good news in book publishing, and brilliant weirdos using Kickstarter
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Ch. 7: What does it cost to enter publishing?
Around this time of year, I start hearing from recent graduates hoping to get into the publishing business. While I enjoy meeting with them and am…
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Ch. 6: Tariff troubles
How Trump's tariffs could hit publishers hard
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