Publishing Talk

Publishing Talk is the online community for publishers and authors interested in social media marketing, digital publishing, self-publishing and the future of the industry. It is run by social media consultant and publisher-turned-author Jon Reed. Jon runs workshops on social media marketing, and is the author of Get Up to Speed with Online Marketing.

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Who needs publishers? We all do!

Publishing Talk | 5:43 pm 25 Aug 10 Comments 8

By Philip Goldberg in The Huffington Post:
Recently, Newsweek ran an article about the brave new world of self-publishing. Its title asked the question “Who Needs a Publisher?” Well, the short answer is, I do. The bigger answer is: we all do.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m glad that self-publishing has evolved from stigma to respectability. I [...]

Seth Godin quits traditional publishing

Publishing Talk | 9:48 pm 23 Aug 10 Comments 0

By Seth Godin on Seth Godin’s Blog:
Authors need publishers because they need a customer. Readers have been separated from authors by many levels–stores, distributors, media outlets, printers, publishers–there were lots of layers for many generations, and the editor with a checkbook made the process palatable to the writer. For ten years, I had a publisher [...]

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