Now it's up to you to test your own time, work on ways to get faster so that
the publishing takes less time away from all your writing.
Not exact matches
But a
lesser - noticed story
published that same day on the
Times School Book blog reported that New York City is being forced to cut its Universal Meals Program, which had previously insured that all children at some predominantly low - income schools received free lunches, without demonstrating economic need — and therefore without risking social stigma by
taking the school meal.
«We've come up with a new way to detect staph bacteria that
takes less time than current diagnostic approaches,» says James McNamara, assistant professor in internal medicine at the UI and the corresponding author of the paper
published Feb. 2 in Nature Medicine.
When in 2010 The Los Angeles
Times published individual teacher performances in similar tests on the rubric of «least effective», «
less effective», «average», «more effective» and «most effective», one teacher, Rigoberto Ruelas,
took his own life after he was judged «least effective».
Research
published last year by Bersin by Deloitte suggests there's a
time and place for both macrolearning and microlearning [2]: Macro when you want to learn a «whole new domain,» or you're at a career milestone (new job, promotion); micro when you «need help now» and consume information that
takes «10 minutes or
less.»
(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the
time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own
time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self -
published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self -
published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to
less than $.50 per hour of my
time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to
take advantage of my fellow authors.
Note: In my experience, it
takes me
less time to indie
publish a short story than it does to look up a market, get the manuscript ready, do a cover letter, do stamps and SASE, and go to the post office to mail it.
I got super excited when I finished the next book, especially since it was three
times the size of the first one and
took me
less than two days to write, so I sent it to my coach Nicole Dean, who promptly called me with a crazy idea... Could I write and
publish one of these Kindle books every week for the rest of 2013?
If I could
take the current technology, we would spend WAY
less time figuring out the
publishing process.
Publishing through ePubli is the same as any other distributor — like Smashwords, BookBaby or Draft2Digital, in that it
takes more
time for changes to go through and ultimately, you have a lot
less control than going direct.
All that and so much more you can consider, decide on, implement, and then view the results in
less time than it
takes for a traditionally
published author to hear back about whether his / her editor
took his / her request to any of — much
less all of — the meetings required to decide on a change.
Perhaps the most important
publishing restriction that has been broken down thanks to digital
publishing is the
time to market of a new title; where a book once
took as many as two years to see the shelves of a book store, authors are still able to turn out quality material in a matter of weeks or months, reaching their readers» devices in far
less time than
publishing once
took.
In this market, when it seems that even finding an agent willing to
take on an author's project can mean years of querying and futile efforts of trying to make connections, many authors are shifting their focus away from the business end of
publishing in favor of a lower key approach that allows them to retain control over their work and spend more
time writing with
less time trying to become
published.
As a matter of personal experience, if I look at my taxable earnings from FY 2010 through FY 2013, I made
less money in 2011 (when I first self -
published) than in 2010 by a factor of 2.5, and that was with Unlocked
taking off and hitting the New York
Times list.
You must remember I've just
published my 6th book and it
takes time, as I said — also, when I did really well with my first two there were a hell of a lot
less books on Amazon UK, only about 1,200,000 I think,, and it was fairly easy to get to number one in the free downloads, which automatically led to a place in the paid Top 100.
The best part is that you don't need to deal with code and
publishing new content
takes lesser time.
That lowers the barriers to entry for newcomers quite considerably, allowing them to get up to speed much faster than was possible just a year or two ago... As author services companies expand their offerings, as tools are developed and expanded, it will
take less and
less of the self -
published author's
time to set up and maintain their business.
To break down into the actual manufacturing
time, while the writing part
took approximately 3 days (72 hours), the manufacturing (32 hours) together with
publishing processes did actually
take less than 2 days (48 hours) according to the Forbes article.
They would
take less time to produce, making them more timely and accurate by the
time they're
published, and thus more useful to policymakers.