Self-publishing News & Articles

Productivity apps for the iPad are pouring in, and here comes one from iBuildApp that offers a direct route to self-publishing.

Magazines dominate this week in web publishing. From print preferences, 48 hour creations and self-publishing, there's never a dull moment.

In May we profiled the self-publishing site Klatcher, which allows authors to self-publish anything online from words to a rich media publication and start selling their best content.

Like most anything in the web-o-sphere, a lot can happen in six months and Klatcher is no exception. Johannes Bhakdi, CEO and a visionary of the web publishing world caught us up to date on where Klatcher has been and where it is going.

Looks like a couple of companies are in cahoots to get video delivered straight to your mobile network, among other media.

That is, Akamai Technologies, Inc. and KIT digital, Inc. have combined forces in a strategic agreement. The agreement will allow KIT to package and resell Akamai solutions with its KIT VX Video Management Platform. Moreover, the agreement allows the companies to jointly market the KIT VX Video Management Platform to key Akamai enterprise customers.

The problem with having a niche, like content management, is that by the time news makes its way to the likes of CNN and Oprah, we've moved on. It can be frustrating that making headlines outside the CMS world garners more attention than all the articles, comments, blogs and tweets put together. When CNN reported the other day that "more authors turn to Web and print-on-demand publishing" we wanted to see for ourselves.

Back in January, we ran a similar story that indicated that "Companies that charge writers and photographers to publish are growing rapidly at a time when many mainstream publishers are losing ground." We relied on industry data from Bowker to tell us that more books were printed in 2008 than 2007 and it was attributed to an increase in the number of print-on-demand books.

It's been four months and we turned to some of those in the self-publishing industry to see what's going on.

Times are tough for publishers. More layoffs. Fewer readers. But there is one aspect of book publishing that is getting some attention: writing.

Companies that charge writers and photographers to publish are growing rapidly at a time when many mainstream publishers are losing ground.

We’ve done a lot of talking about the democratic benefits of the ‘net. Because it’s so easy to become a web publisher, everybody’s got a soapbox, right?

But what can web two-dot-oh do for opinionated people who don’t blog and have no intention to start?

coComment may answer that question.