By Porter Anderson / @Porter_Anderson ‘Connecting Our Local Authors With Readers’ A leader in creative-community relations, Los Angeles Public Library’s (LAPL) adoption of SELF-e’s capabilities is being watched by other library systems as a model. And who better to ask what it means to finally be able to acquire and promote local authors than the… Read More
Meet the First SELF-e Ambassador: Victoria Noe
By Porter Anderson / @Porter_Anderson Flash: Victoria Noe’s Top-10 standing with SELF-e is in the news in the Alliance of Independent Authors’ Self-Publishing Advice Member Showcase this month. Have a look! Be sure to see our September Top 10 SELF-e Books ‘The Opportunity To Be Discovered’ In a new program to spread awareness of SELF-e’s… Read More
At SELF-e: Cooking Up Memories With Gemini Ink and BiblioTech
By Porter Anderson / @Porter_Anderson Be sure to see our September Top 10 SELF-e Books Sharing Recipes and Life Recetas de mi vida — a lovely title that means “Recipes of My Life” — is more than a book, Anisa Onofre tells me. And it’s just the kind of collaborative effort with community creative talent that San… Read More
Cuyahoga County Public Library & SELF-e
By Porter Anderson / @Porter_Anderson Be sure to see our September Top 10 SELF-e Books ‘Standing Room Only’ Ahead of the new Skirball Writers’ Center It’s hard to find a library program more focused on supporting its local authors than Cuyahoga (“Kye-ah-HOE-ga”) County Public Library in Parma, Ohio. All you have to do is let… Read More
A Conversation With the SELF-e Team: Exploring Payment for Authors
Note from Jane Friedman: Earlier this month, I featured a guest post on how self-published authors can distribute their ebooks to libraries, through the SELF-e program from Library Journal and BiblioBoard. That post wasn’t without controversy, since the program doesn’t pay authors for licensing of their ebooks. I invited the folks behind SELF-e to comment on the program, to start a… Read More
Is Your Self-Published Ebook in the Library? SELF-e Is Ready To Help
Hear that cheer from the Left Coast? That might just be librarians gathered for the American Library Association’s (ALA) big Annual Conference & Exhibition. It opens today, Thursday (25th June) in San Francisco. And among the news you may hear coming out of the gathering, one of the most upbeat announcements is that the… Read More