Flametoad

For the whole time the Flametoad blog was on hiatus, I kept squirreling away links use as blog fodder. The theme for this week’s linkdump is publishing and e-books.
Profit & Loss – If you’ve ever wondered why books cost as much as they do, you’ll want to check out this post on Marion Gropen’s Publishing [...]

In this video, some of the people behind Tor.com talk about building online communities. Worth a listen.

One of the things I’ve been planning with regard to our upcoming Pinebox anthology is getting it out not only in print, but also in more mainstream e-book distribution channels.
As an RPG e-book publisher, to date our books have been available through online RPG retailers. Without exception, the RPG publishing world has standardized on the PDF format. Considering the amount [...]

Unfortunately, my “numbers post” isn’t quite as functional as I’d wanted. I really wanted to embed a spreadsheet right onto the page. I wanted it to retain all the formulas I’d set, and allow visitors to plug in different values and watch profitability rise or fall accordingly. That just isn’t going to happen. I played [...]

Yesterday I described the RPG hobby book publishing business in broad terms and ended with the assurance that today we’d look at real world numbers. Unfortunately, I’m afraid I’m going to have to pull a bait & switch. I had a church event last night and by the time I got home I didn’t have [...]