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Self-publishing, personal publishing and nano-publishing are three key fast evolving areas of the new media universe. Personal publishing has been strongly enabled by blogs, RSS, PDF-publishing systems, and other easy to adopt content publishing tools. This is the age of the independent publisher. The new media publishing technologies for independent publishers, online reporters, news-makers, digital educators, research specialists and information librarians allow the creation of an infinite number of new information resources and products for which you can find here the most recent news, tools and resources.

Self-Publish Your Book: Guide To The Best Self-Publishing Services When working with a traditional book publisher, you, the book author, give up a large degree of editorial control, and many times you have little to no input into the design and layout of your book, its distribution, and its marketing approach. Self-publishing allows you, the ... read more | cat.: Independent Publishing | Link Robin Good and Daniele Bazzano -- June 29

Kindle DX - Is Charging Premium Access For Content The Best Strategy? The Kindle DX allows publishers to charge premium access for content. But is distributing locked-down, must-pay-for content through a proprietary platform a good strategy for content publishers? Titles are being pushed into Kindle format as quickly as Amazon can handle the conversions and postings. In a year ... read more | cat.: Independent Publishing | Link John Blossom - Shore -- June 19

Google Penalization And The Reconsideration Request: Official Tips To File Your Reconsideration Request Correctly If you think your website is under a Google penalization because you suddenly disappeared from Google search results, you can file a reconsideration request to the Google team. In this video, the Google Webmaster Help Center shares some official tips to file your reconsideration request correctly ... read more | cat.: Independent Publishing | Link Rachel Searles and Brian White - Google Webmaster Central YouTube Channel -- June 10

Social Media Marketing Metrics: The Official IAB Definitions and Guidelines Social media has changed the paradigm of how people consume online media. But how do you measure social media effectiveness, when social media becomes an instrument for marketing, PR and promotion? Are there advertising metrics for social media marketing and promotion? Photo credit: Jozsef Szasz-Fabian edited by ... read more | cat.: Independent Publishing | Link International Advertising Bureau Digital Video Committee - IAB -- May 29

Citizen Journalism: The Key Trend Shaping Online News Media - Introductory Guide With Videos Citizen Journalism has put democracy back in people's hands. An army of individuals with mobile phones, portable cameras, and blogs is rapidly replacing traditional media as a reliable and wide-ranging source of information. In this milestone report, Chris Willis and Shayne Bowman were among the ... read more | cat.: Independent Publishing | Link Chris Willis and Shayne Bowman - We Media -- May 27

What Business Strategy For News Publishers? When Most Of Your Content Is Freely Republished Elsewhere How Can You Survive? The AP Story The most recent statistical data by duplicated content analysis engine Attributor indicates that nearly half of the web sites taking content from major publishers are copying more than 90 percent of the original text of articles. For prestigious and long-established news organization like AP, this is ... read more | cat.: Independent Publishing | Link John Blossom - Shore -- May 15

Why Tracking External Links Can Help You Improve Website Traffic Tracking and monitoring your incoming links can provide you with great and valuable insight into which sites, social media and other web traffic sources are sending you the best and most qualified visitors for your web site. But how do you go about analyzing those incoming ... read more | cat.: Independent Publishing | Link Pavel Israelsky - Nana10 -- May 6

Best Embeddable Online Video Widgets And Playlist Creators - Mini-Guide Video playlists are a simple but effective way for web publishers to create extra content that has much greater value than a single clip. By aggregating, picking and selecting a compilation of videos on a certain topic or subject, you can offer something unique and special ... read more | cat.: Independent Publishing | Link Robin Good -- May 4

Online Video Ad Formats: IAB Guidelines And Metrics To Monetize Online Videos The online video advertising market seems to show no decline despite the economic crisis. The last report from LiveRail shows that average CPMs keeps growing bravely, and internet video consumption has been experiencing a massive growth of 40% and more. Since this trend has kept growing almost ... read more | cat.: Independent Publishing | Link IAB Digital Video Committee - IAB -- April 27

How To Get Your Images Indexed By Google Image Search One of my greatest traffic sources is Google Image Search, and, if you like me, utilize plenty of high quality, well-selected images for your web site, it is likely that the same thing has already happened to you as well. Photo credit: Mario Lopes In case you ... read more | cat.: Independent Publishing | Link Robin Good and Peter Linsley - Google Webmaster Central YouTube Channel -- April 24

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