I sometimes thing that the only profitable part of self-publishing is sniffing out the flop-sweat on people who are desperate for attention because they wrote a book. Here’s a classic example, found on Facebook. It looks like every other website of this kind: Long scrolling page Center-justified, bolded text. Buy button placed at regular intervals.… Read More The Internet is Filled With Writing Gurus Who Want Your Money
There’s a new publishing platform out there called SubStack. I heard about it on Twitter. It looks cool, it’s free to use, and it’s got a bunch of features like MailChimp that cost extra on WordPress (the number of things this blog doesn’t have because I don’t feel like shelling out for a WordPress business… Read More SubStack, Marketing Lamentations, and Cover Design Refreshes
Jack White Concert for ‘Boarding House Reach’ Album Release to Be Live-Streamed on Twitter http://variety.com/2018/digital/news/jack-white-twitter-album-release-live-stream-1202732449/ — Read on variety.com/2018/digital/news/jack-white-twitter-album-release-live-stream-1202732449/ This is interesting because: A) I’d been wondering when Jack’s next album would drop B) Live-streaming a concert gets around bootleggers and uses paid customers to create an event for non-paying customers.
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