When you are writing a book with the intention of self-publishing (either fully on your own or through a dedicated self-publishing platform), you might be content to publish solely in your country of residence. However, you may wish to also publish for international...
Why Print Books Still Matter A generation ago, when an author was ready to take a book to print, the meaning of doing this was, quite literally, going “to print”—that is, making the book into a print copy. In today’s world, though, things are much more complicated...
Is an Ebook the Right Call When publishing a book, authors must make a critical decision about whether to pursue the print route or the ebook route. In Part I of this two-part series, we discussed the advantages of sticking to the old-fashioned way and opting for...
Judith Jones’ inconspicuous touch but enduring work in publishing. Judith Jones started her career in publishing at seventeen years old and continued to work for almost seventy years. Her professional life saw sweeping changes across the world of publishing, and,...
If you’ve seen The Terminator as many times as I have, the explosion of AI tools into multiple industries is a little scary. While we’re hopefully still a few decades off from the machines becoming self-aware enough to start hunting humans, it’s clear that AI tools...
When you buy a book online (or maybe if you go into a bookstore – remember those places?), you may have noticed a long series of numbers associated with the book called an ISBN. Unless you decided to go to school and get your Masters in Library Science (shout out to...
