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IndieReader Discovery Awards: Top Titles To-Date
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IR Staff •
May 18, 2012
Please note that the judging is not yet complete, that all books entered have not yet been reviewed and that not all of the books included here will win. But they are all IndieReader approved and very much worth a read. Read On
Reason #46 to Self Publish: Because You Don’t Need Permission
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IR Staff •
May 09, 2012
“I had two publishers who wanted it and who were overruled by the business side. They are worried about the [Globe’s] clout, about bestseller lists, about reviews of their books,” but Wong says those were unfounded worries. Read On
James Beard Foundation Picks Cook Book of the Year
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IR Staff •
May 07, 2012
The gorgeous set of six volume books is self-published. Read On
Inside the E-book Price-Fixing Case
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David Gaughran •
Apr 12, 2012
The respective CEOs were alleged to have met in secret in the private dining rooms of upscale Manhattan restaurants, talking about how to deal with Amazon. Read On
Self-Pubbed Sedona Scooped By Scribner
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IR Staff •
Apr 11, 2012
In another example of all-indie-books-are-crap-with-the-exception-of-this-one, Scribner has acquired the “independently-published” New York Times bestseller The Call of Sedona: Journey of the Heart by Ilchi Lee. Read On
Get it Before Simon & Schuster Does!
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IR Staff •
Mar 31, 2012
The New York Times recently ran a story about a self-published title called “Lessons From Madame Chic: The Top 20 Things I Learned While Living in Paris”. Flash forward a week and rumor has it that Madame Scott has sold her, “personable, anecdote-filled” indie to Simon & Schuster and will be pulling it off the shelves, both real and virtual, on Monday. Read On
50 Shades of Grey: Indie First!
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IR Staff •
Mar 14, 2012
All those people running to their computer and/or local indie bookstores to download/pick up “50 Shades of Grey”? If you read indie, you might have checked it out back in 2010, when you could have found it, for free. Read On
Reason #47 to Self-Publish
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IR Staff •
Mar 13, 2012
So you can say mean things about Hilary Clinton Read On
The Joy of Books
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IR Staff •
Jan 11, 2012
We’re not sure if any of these dancing books are indie, but nevertheless, it’s a joyous sight to see. Read On
Why Mark Cuban Went Indie
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Amy Edelman •
Nov 28, 2011
“All I have to do is get them to pay attention and hit a link,” Cuban says, estimating that his blog posts attract anywhere from 50,000 to one million readers. Read On
