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  Episode 277: How Can Every Book You Publish Be Evergreen?8/29/202411:36The publishing industry invests heavily in the logic that a new book hits hard out of the gate, has a third of its total sales before it's published, a third of its sales in the following year, and the final third gradually across the lifetime of the book, until it gradually saturates and dead stalls.The good news? It doesn't have to be this way! So this week on the pod, we look at how to make books sell forever.
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  Episode 276: How do I get my first books in stores and libraries?8/22/20249:03You published a few books! Congrats! That's one of the most important parts of being a publisher.But... now what? How do you get your book in stores and libraries? Smoke signals? Pigeons? The answer is, as always, more simple and more complex than you would think.

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  Episode 275: The Burning Rage of a Dying Planet (with Craig Rosebraugh)8/15/202442:18Craig Rosebraugh, author of "Burning Rage of a Dying Planet: The FBI vs. the Earth Liberation Front" sits down with us to talk about how he became the spokesperson for the ELF, the FBI faking a book deal to gain intel, and publishing controversial materials.Check out Craig's book on our website.If you have a New York Times sub, here's a link to an article about Craig's experience with the FBI.
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  Episode 274: How do you become a neighborhood bookstore? w/Spoke & Word Books8/8/202431:17This month for the #BookstoreSolidarityProject, we hung out with Cierra, owner of Portland-local bookstore Spoke & Word!We talked about bookselling, strategic romance and genre placement, and how much of a fan Joe's doctor is of them.Check out Spoke & Word's site: https://www.spokeandwordbooks.com/
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  Episode 273: Why Do We Keep Talking About Boxes?8/1/202410:47Boxes— they make the book world go round. Why do we have such strong opinions on boxes (and where we get them from? Why is there a cat on ours now? Let us deliver the good word and show off our new boxes.
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  Episode 272: What is a Hybrid Publisher? (starring Jane Friedman)7/25/202421:15What is hybrid publishing? What is it a hybrid between? Halfway between traditional publishing and service providing, hybrid publishers have come to mean a lot of things from a rebranded vanity publishing to a co-investment model with superior royalties and it's often difficult to tell the difference until you are familiar with the players involved. So this week Jane Friedman tackles these difficult questions.
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  Episode 269: What do books and sneakers have in common? w/ CLASS bookstore7/11/202440:14CLASS bookstore is probably the most talked about bookseller in the U.S. in 2024. They know how to build a hype machine and get people talking about them. Publishers pressure their sales reps to get books in there. What is different about them? And the big question—how do they utilize fashion marketing to make books dope?************Thank you for watching the People's Guide to Publishing vlogcast! Get the book: https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/3663Get the workbook: https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/zines/10031More from Microcosm: http://microcosmpublishing.comMore by Joe Biel: http://joebiel.netMore by Elly Blue: http://takingthelane.comSubscribe to our monthly email newsletter: https://confirmsubscription.com/h/r/0EABB2040D281C9CFind us on social mediaFacebook: http://facebook.com/microcosmpublishingTwitter: http://twitter.com/microcosmmmInstagram: http://instagram.com/microcosm_pub************
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  Episode 268: What is a Small Press Publisher? (starring Jane Friedman)6/27/202417:10During a recent phone call, we asked a partner how she defines "independent publisher" and her answer was "we know it when we see it." "Indie" has grown to mean "dependent on Amazon" and Orwell would be proud. In the past decade, publishing has become overwhelmed by jargon. Well you might say that it goes back much further than that (and we probably wouldn't disagree), but the jargon that is designed to intentionally obfuscate has grown considerably to the point that we have to define things like "small press publisher."************Thank you for watching the People's Guide to Publishing vlogcast! Get the book: https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/3663Get the workbook: https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/zines/10031More from Microcosm: http://microcosmpublishing.comMore by Joe Biel: http://joebiel.netMore by Elly Blue: http://takingthelane.comSubscribe to our monthly email newsletter: https://confirmsubscription.com/h/r/0EABB2040D281C9CFind us on social mediaFacebook: http://facebook.com/microcosmpublishingTwitter: http://twitter.com/microcosmmmInstagram: http://instagram.com/microcosm_pub************