As a small indie press you might actually prefer that people could buy your latest book at the local book store. The irony is that the system is set up to make that very difficult and very expensive for you as a publisher. Read More
Strengths and weakness of of the primary “print-on-demand” (POD) printers for small indie publishers (including self-publishers): Amazon’s KDP versus Ingram’s IngramSpark. Read More
A wrap-up list of the useful podcasts on the publishing ecosphere I’ve listened to lately: business, promotion, and production. Read More
“The paradox of Paul Nylander is that I’m proudly enigmatic myself, but I’m driven to understand how the world works, and share that knowledge with others.” Read More
A simple example to introduce the idea of publishing economics. Read More
One of the more perplexing questions to answer in preparing a book for production is what paper to use. Here I walk through the numbers, and explain my recommendations. Read More
For the curious among you … An interview with Paul Nylander about life, curiosity, how quantum chromodynamics is tied into design, and other other crazy ideas. Read More
