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E-Books: The Next Front for Journalists in Transition

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The next front is something quite different: e-books. The next new-media challenge for journalists, I suspect, will be a diametrically different area, covered by Carla King on MediaShift last Friday: E-books and self-publishing. But what journalist hasn’t thought at some point or another about going long-form and writing a book?

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The Coming Death of Self-Publishing

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In the book world, at least, it’s been common to distinguish between three types of publishing: traditional publishing, vanity or subsidized publishing, and self-publishing. (As Digital technology has made it possible for authors to produce, market, and distribute their own high-quality, low-cost books, whether in electronic or digital form.

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Beware the Witch-Hunting Impulse

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By point nine—”I will never allow anyone to send out copies of my books to be reviewed”— I was suspicious. His aim, I take it, was not to defend dishonest marketing, but to warn us against mob instincts: “All of you pointing your fingers and proclaiming your piety?

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Beware the Witch-Hunting Impulse

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By point nine—”I will never allow anyone to send out copies of my books to be reviewed”— I was suspicious. His aim, I take it, was not to defend dishonest marketing, but to warn us against mob instincts: “All of you pointing your fingers and proclaiming your piety?

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5 Things I Learned from Self-Publishing

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Thanks to e-book and print-on-demand technology, the risks are low and the potential for rewards—though not perhaps of the kind you’d expect—high. As Seth Godin says of non-fiction book publishing , it’s an organized hobby, not a business: “The return on equity and return on time for authors and for publishers is horrendous.

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Introducing the New-Media Survival Guide

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Today I’m both pleased and relieved to announce the publication of my first e-book, the New-Media Survival Guide. (If And if you’re a social-media maven, you may not need this book, but you probably know someone who does. If you just can’t wait to buy a copy at the bargain price of $2.99, click here now.

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Paul Conley: Has the Content Marketing Dream Become a Nightmare?

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And though he is now beginning to question its potential, he was an early advocate for content marketing as a promising new career path for journalists. ” By last year, he said , his working life was “consumed” by content marketing. What they’re selling in the market is the ability to co-opt their journalists!