The Future of Self-Publishing: A Real Page-Turner – Part 2

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The Buzz 1: “Self-publishing is an ever-changing industry and big changes can come seemingly out of nowhere…Trend #2: More indie authors will collaborate or consolidate in collectives. Trend #3: Authors will benefit from competition in the eBook marketplace between Amazon, Apple, and Google.” [www.writtenwordmedia.com/the-top-ten-publishing-trends-every-author-needs-to-know-in-2021] The Buzz 2: “Ten years ago, e-books made up less than 1 percent of the trade book market, yet they now make up 40 to 50 percent of units sold…In genres like fantasy, romance, and science fiction, traditional publishers have lost their former iron grip on the industry…Successful major authors are even choosing to self-publish.…As smartphone ownership expands internationally, so will the market for e-books.…As digital books move away from the traditional paper format which inspired them, books could take advantage of the capabilities of digital devices by offering color, interactivity, connectivity, share ability, and new features we can’t even imagine yet.” [https://izzardink.com/future-of-self-publishing] We’ll ask publisher Eddie Vincent, novelist Ursula Wong, ghostwriter and novelist Jeff Deck, novelist Barbara Eppich Struna, and indie writer Dale T. Phillips for their take on The Future of Self-Publishing: A Real Page-Turner – Part 2!

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0:00.0	Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, really here, really here, meet today's future, which is about to happen, and tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away?
0:16.4	Welcome to Technology Revolution, the future of now.
0:21.6	Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven trends that are shaping our future right now.
0:30.9	Here's your host who will take us into the future of now.
0:34.8	Bonnie D. Graham.
0:36.3	Welcome, welcome, welcome. I have five experts, our special topic today. We are
0:40.6	revisiting self-publishing. Those of you out there think you have a story, an idea, a true story, a
0:46.0	fantasy story, a sci-fi story, whatever it is. And you don't want to or don't think you can get
0:50.3	an agent to go through a big publishing house. You can self-publish. It's a trend that
0:54.6	started several years ago, and it is in full swing. And I have five people back from our show in May
0:59.8	to talk about it. I want to do a shout out to Ryan Treasure, the voice who introduced me. He is the
1:04.8	VP of Broadcast Operations at World Talk Radio. I want my panelists before I introduce you to
1:09.6	wave hello. We are live on LinkedIn.
1:11.7	Everybody wave hello to LinkedIn.
1:13.4	There we go.
1:14.4	And wave hello to Facebook.
1:15.8	Also a lot of waving today and say hello, one, two, three.
1:20.3	Hello.
1:21.6	Hello.
1:21.7	To the Voice America Business Channel.
1:23.8	We got it right.
1:24.5	So let me give you my buzz and then we'll have my guests reintroduce themselves to the audience. And our topic today is the future of the self-publishing
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