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[17 Sep 2009 | 3 Comments | 111 views]

Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.
Today we’ll hear from someone inside the traditional publishing world. This was emailed to me from a member of an established New York publishing house. Aside from working in publishing, he’s also been conventionally published himself. I know it’s unfortunate, but I’ve been asked to conceal his name. He doesn’t want to anger the publishing company that employs him. That’s fine, I understand. I’m just glad to have a viewpoint from inside the machine.
Anyhow, here is his insight, after being presented with my questions:
I …

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[15 Sep 2009 | 2 Comments | 146 views]

Part 1 can be found here. I said there that I had some ideas for methods to make self-published e-books a “legitimate” way to publish a book, specifically with regard to listing self-published e-books as items on a resume. Here are the options, as I see them. They all have their drawbacks and advantages – I’ve listed them all in order to be as complete as possible, not to advocate them all.
In order to make this article itself a little more legitimate, I also emailed several people in various …