January-February 2012 Issue
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The IPPY Effect
The IPPY Awards contest is among the largest and most recognized book awards events in the world. This is your one-stop location for everything "IPPY."
Indie Groundbreaking Book
Indie Groundbreaking Book: Guaranteed to Last
Written and designed with a reverence for the Bean legacy, but also with the humor and free spirit of the northwoods, it’s the perfect coffee table book for both the deer camp and the home.
Indie Groundbreaking Bookseller
Indie Groundbreaking Bookseller: Mitzi’s Books
“Consumer surveys consistently show that locally-owned independent bookstores are one of the most desirable businesses. Many people who are attracted to the bookstore businesses are community-minded people and this was certainly the case with Mitzi's. For business people like Ray Hillenbrand, all it took was a clear opportunity and Borders closing provided the perfect opening."
Tech Desk
From the Tech Desk
College textbooks are expensive. Exorbitantly so in some cases, particularly for a product that you might only use for three months of your entire life. During my college years, I can recall easily spending above $200 each semester on my textbooks. Given that some classes required two to three texts, and in the case of one literature class seven books, the cost adds up FAST.
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IP Presents: John Locke
“I’d been selling my eBooks for 99 cents for a long time – nine months – and got almost no sales,” Locke laughed. “Then I started working with social media and emailing. I attracted attention to my blog site and I was emailing people and making readers one at a time. I did it the same way I started selling insurance: knocking on doors one person at a time. I got some readers, and they told their friends who told their friends and so on. Then the 99-cent price helped me greatly.”
Book Review
Glass
As is the case with all Sam Savage's novels the prose is heartrendingly true and pure, sparing yet not without poetic qualities. If there is one American writer living today who should be more appreciated than he is, that writer is Sam Savage.
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The IPPY Effect
The IPPY Awards contest is among the largest and most recognized book awards events in the world. This is your one-stop location for everything "IPPY." |
Indie Groundbreaking Book
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Indie Groundbreaking Book: Guaranteed to Lastby Jim Barnes Written and designed with a reverence for the Bean legacy, but also with the humor and free spirit of the northwoods, it’s the perfect coffee table book for both the deer camp and the home. |
Indie Groundbreaking Bookseller
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Indie Groundbreaking Bookseller: Mitzi’s Booksby Jim Barnes “Consumer surveys consistently show that locally-owned independent bookstores are one of the most desirable businesses. Many people who are attracted to the bookstore businesses are community-minded people and this was certainly the case with Mitzi's. For business people like Ray Hillenbrand, all it took was a clear opportunity and Borders closing provided the perfect opening." |
Tech Desk
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From the Tech Deskby Matthew Delman College textbooks are expensive. Exorbitantly so in some cases, particularly for a product that you might only use for three months of your entire life. During my college years, I can recall easily spending above $200 each semester on my textbooks. Given that some classes required two to three texts, and in the case of one literature class seven books, the cost adds up FAST. |
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Glassby Sam Savage As is the case with all Sam Savage's novels the prose is heartrendingly true and pure, sparing yet not without poetic qualities. If there is one American writer living today who should be more appreciated than he is, that writer is Sam Savage. |
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Pragmatism Reigns: A Conversation With Barry Eislerby Matthew Delman NY Times Bestselling Author Talks Amazon, Self-Publishing, and the New Publishing Landscape |
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IP Presents: John Lockeby Jillian Bergsma His self-publishing success, distribution partnerships, and the future of publishing |
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Aftershock's Aftershockby Nina L. Diamond The Case of the Missing Chapter |
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From the Independent Publisher Magazine Archivesby David Darling An Interview with Jim Harrison: Thoughts on Independence in Publishing and Bookselling |
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The IPPY EffectEverything you need to know about the Independent Publisher Book Awards |