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A Leap-Day Special

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To mark the auspicious occasion of leap day, I’ve marked down the price of the e-book edition of the New-Media Survival Guide to just 99 cents (or, if you’re outside the United States, the equivalent in some other currency). This is just a one day sale, more or less, so if you’re tempted, don’t wait.

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Doubling Down on Print, for Better or Worse

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Over the weekend, New York Times reporter Julie Bosman described how book publishers have begun putting extra effort into making their print products more physically and esthetically engaging. As a book collector, I’m pleased that books will be more beautiful. And is there any effective e-equivalent of a pop-up book?

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Will Self-Publishing Save Print?

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Most writers,” I wrote in declaring that print is effectively dead , “don’t care in a meaningful way about the physical presence of a book. This realization came to me last week as I attempted to lean back and survey my achievement, such as it was, in publishing my first e-book, the New-Media Survival Guide. It can’t be done.

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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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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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