Websites that can help your self-publishing business run more smoothly, more efficiently, and hopefully more profitably, AND help you produce better books and content.
Here’s a list of websites that are worth looking at. I recommend everyone of them because I believe that they continue to provide (or provided in the past) good information and guidance that help me become a better and more successful self-publisher. Wherever you are now in your self-publishing journey, you will find plenty here to help you succeed too.
I will add to this list whenever I find a website that I consider to be truly informative and useful in helping me become a more successful self-publisher. -JCK
Audio Books
Blogging and WordPress
Bloggers Pick Of The Day
• The Blog Herald
• Mark McLaren
• WordPress Tips
• WPbeginner
• Planet WordPress
• BlogWorld
• Alexa
• Content Marketing Institute
• Bitly’s Bitlink Embed-Code Generator
• Siege Media’s Embed-Code Generator
• ClickToTweet’s Tweet Embed-Code Generator
• Have I Been Pwned?
Book Cover
• Book Cover Archive
• Adobe Kuler
• Cloford.com
• VisiBone
Book Design
Book Marketing
• Book Marketing Buzz Blog of Brian Feinblum
• Marketing Tips for Authors
• ReelSeo
Book’s in General
• The NY Times Book Section Online
• The Millions
Branding
• Operative Words Blog with Anthony Shore
Business
• Michael Hyatt
• Seth Godin’s Blog
• CrowdSpring’s Blog
CIP – Cataloging In Publication Data
Copyright
• The Rights Of Writers
• Copyright Advisory Office
• Copyright & Technology
• Public Domain Sherpa
• Teaching Copyright
• US Copyright Office
• Wikipedia
• WIPO
• YouTube
Digital Media
• Digital Book World
• John Dickinson
• MediaShift
• Publishing 2.0
• Tools of Change
Ebooks
• Joe Konrath
• Ann-Marie Concepcion & David Blatner
• MobileRead.com
• BookBaby
• SmashWords
• Password Incorrect with Piotr Kowalczyk
Ecommerce
• Practical Ecommerce
• MyWifeQuitHerJob
• Reverse PayPal Fee Calculator by Greg Ledet
General Publishing
• AuthoPublisher
• Aaron Shepard
• David Gaughran
• Chris Stevenson
• April Hamilton
• BookSquare
• Carla King on MediaShift
• Carla King’s website Author Friendly
• Carla King’s Travel and Adventure Blog
• Derek Haines’ website Just Publishing Advice
• Editorial Anonymous
• Gerald Jackson
• Indie Reader
• IndiePubJournal
• Mike Shatzkin
• Natalie Wickham
• Self-Publishing Review
• TeleRead Paul Biba
• The Book Seller
• Thomas Nixon
• Virginia Heffernan
• Women on Writing
• Penny Sansevieri
• DMOZ directory
Google AdSense
• Google’s YouTube AdSense Page
• Google’s YouTube Business Page
• Inside AdSense Blog
• Jonathan Ledger
• Google Keyword Planner
Infographics
ISBN
• Amazon
• Bowker ID
• Bowker Link
• Freebarcodes.com
• ISBN Converter
LCCN – Library of Congress Control Number
• PCN-Preassigned Control Number Program of the US Library of Congress
• WorldCat online library catalog
POD – Print-On-Demand
• Lightning Source
• Mick Rooney
• Morris Rosenthal
Press Releases
• PRLog
Publishing Industry
• Publishing Perspectives
• Independent Publisher
• Publetariat
• Folio Magazine
• Publetariat
• Publishers Marketplace
• Publishers Newswire
• Publishers Weekly
• Writer Beware
• Alan Rinzler
Publishing Organizations
• SPAN
• IBPA
• SPAWN
• The Scholarly Kitchen
SEO
• SEOMOZ
Voice-Over Acting, As A Career, Education
• Susan Berkley
• Bill DeWees
• Nancy Wolfson
• Dan Levine
• William Williams
Website Marketing & Promotion
The Writer’s Knowledge Base
• Pingler
• John Lagoudakis
• WiseStamp
Writing/Grammar
• C.S. Lakin’s website: Live Write Thrive
• The Manuscript Assessor Danielle de Valera
• Grammarist
• The Writer’s Knowledge Base
• Ben Richardson’s Man The Desk
• Jeff Goins
• English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
• Writer’s Digest
• Capitalize My Title
• Vocabulary.com
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