Publishing Industry, Future Trends, and Forward Thinking - Index of Articles

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Book Publishing

• The Gatekeeping-Entrepreneurship Tension in Book Publishing: Both Sides Matter: Contemporary publishing runs on two competing logics—understand and accept this to build a better author business

• Tunnel Visions in the Book World: Authors, understand the lanes and your interests for navigating to your advantage

• Welcome to VUCAville, Authors: The publishing world is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous—and let’s consider that the the best news you’ve heard all year

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Future Trends

• Authors, Welcome to the Human Preference Economy: The economy is moving toward everything we’re already building

• Positioning Your Author Business In the Human Preference Economy: A strategic look at where you stand, where to shore up, and how to build what the economy is moving toward

• Authors, Taking Care of Business: Making Yourself a Job: An antidote to unemployment, underemployment, and leaving your future to chance

• Defensive Entrepreneurship: A Strategy for Authors...and All of Us: Create a structure for falling back on a Plan B, C, and D

• Dead Internet Theory and Author Marketing: Back to Real People in Real Places: When it’s all bots talking to bots, your in-person connections are more valuable than ever

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Forward Thinking

• Big Shoulders, Small Paychecks. Let’s Fix That. The data is damning, the history is inspiring, the time to build an economically vibrant literary eco-system is now.

• Two Ways Authors and Publishers Should Make More Money: Suggested corrections for the book publishing industry

• QR Code Royalties: The Voluntary Payment System Authors Can Implement Today: A simple way to get paid when readers borrow, buy used, or receive your books for free

• On the Road: Proposing an RV Lifestyle for Writers and Authors: Crisscrossing the country for inspiration, visibility, camaraderie, and profit — and to capture our times

• Authors, Expect to Get Paid: You are skilled, self-employed humans who bring value and are building businesses, so consider the math

• You Contain Multitudes: For Authors, Entreprenuers, Solopreneurs, Multipreneurs: A new interpretation reveals a solid business strategy and endless options to cultivate

• Why You Should Have an Author Business and Take an Entrepreneurial Approach to Authorship Even If, For You, “It’s Not About the Money”: A growing list of reasons

• Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus Thinks Even Authors Can Be Entrepreneurs: His microcredit movement has helped millions of new entrepreneurs around the world and shows a way forward for meaning-makers in the new economy

• The Profitable Author Life Is the Good Life: How building sustainable author income overlaps with 2,000 years of philosophy on human flourishing

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