This month, BAIPA had the pleasure of hosting Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords. He gave a presentation entitled 7 Secrets to E-book Success, which was packed with wisdom and information. I scribbled notes frantically for a good hour, and will do my best to translate them coherently for you. A little backstory: Mark Coker came [...]
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July BAIPA Meeting: Using CreateSpace to Self-Publish & Start Your Own Home-Based Business
Today’s BAIPA speaker was Christy Pinheiro, a successful self-publisher. In 3 short years, her company is consistently grossing $10,000 – $18,000/month in royalties. (Yes, that’s ten THOUSAND to eighteen THOUSAND per MONTH in royalties — and she even had the royalty sheet from CreateSpace to prove it.) Her publications include The PassKey EA Exam Review book [...]
BAIPA Meeting 5/8/10 – How to turn your book into a audio book
Jessica Kaye from Big Happy Family Audiowas this month’s speaker at BAIPA. Big Happy Family Audio specializes in “Helping independent audio book publishers secure online download distribution”. The company can help small publishers get their audio books sold by big audio book companies like Audible. It is often difficult to get distribution through big companies [...]
BAIPA ‘Get Published’ Institute — “The E-book Bandwagon: Myths, Realities, and News You Can Use”
Saturday was BAIPA’s annual Get Published Institute, held in San Rafael, CA, at the Domincan College. It was a day for new and small publishers to learn from the pros. The first key note presentation was by Danny O. Snow. It was entitled “The e-Book Bandwagon: Myths, Realities, and News You can Use.” Snow was [...]
BAIPA (Bay Area Independent Publishers Assoc.) Meeting, 1/9/10 – An innovative approach to EBooks
At this month’s meeting of the Bay Area Independent Publishers Assoc, we were given a special treat: a power point presentation by E.M. Ginger of 42-Line. 42-Line is a publishing company specializing in converting rare manuscripts into digital books. What I loved most about this presentation was the innovative use of digital media and eBooks. [...]