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The 16th annual Independent Publisher Book Awards, honoring the year’s best independently published titles, is now accepting entries until March 15th, 2012 for books with 2011 and 2012 copyrights or that are released in 2011 or early 2012.

42Rules are submitting the following titles for consideration –42 Rules for a Web Presence that Wins and 42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role.

The “IPPY” Awards were conceived as a broad-based, unaffiliated awards program open to all members of the independent publishing industry, and are open to authors and publishers worldwide who produce books written in English and intended for the North American market. We define “independent” as 1) independently owned and operated; 2) operated by a foundation or university; or 3) long-time independents that became incorporated but operate autonomously and publish fewer than 50 titles a year. To learn more click here.

Amazon.com entered the publishing industry by purchasing a self publishing company and allowing authors to publish their titles on-demand with them. Due to changes in agreements Amazon.com has with other publishers Barnes & Nobles announced in February, 2012 that it will only carry Amazon.com published titles online and not in their brick stores. How this decision will affect Barnes& Noble’s sales remains to be seen. What effect, if any, will this have on your purchasing decisions?

If you’ve written your book don’t discount the value of international readers.  With the high cost of shipping overseas frequently increase more and more readers are purchasing e-books of various formats.  If your book is not in an e-book format you’re losing sales domestically and internationally.

Writer’s Block. Every writer suffers from this affliction more often than we’d like to admit. We have a neat trick for non-fiction writers. If you need a topic for a chapter or a rule (as in the 42Rules books) then the first place you should visit is the place where your audience congregates. Often this will be industry forums but it might be topical newsgroups. Drop in frequently to see what your readers are talking about. You’ll learn about the newest trends, the questions your readers have and what they value. All that information is free for the taking!

Digital Book World Conference is producing the DBW Book Marketing Summit on January 23-25, 2012 in New York, NY!  If you are involved in the digital book world than this event may be for you.  There’s still time to register if you visit http://digitalbookworldconference.com/ehome/index.php