Inside Independent Publishing (with IBPA)

Inside Independent Publishing (with IBPA)

Hosted ByChristopher Locke

"Inside Independent Publishing (with IBPA)" wants to make you a smarter publisher by giving you access to powerful ideas, strategies, and tools for success.

Our interview guests are independent publishers, author publishers, and hybrid publishers, as well as distributors, printers, reviewers, booksellers, marketers, visionaries, and opinion leaders from all sectors of the book publishing industry.

We are sponsored and supported by the Independent Book Publishers Association, the largest book publishing association in the U.S. serving independent publishers and author publishers. IBPA’s vision is a world where every independent publisher has the tools and knowledge needed to professionally engage in all aspects of the publishing industry.

Your host is IBPA Member Liaison Christopher Locke.

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Publishing: Looking backward, looking forward, with Robin Cutler of IngramSpark

October 1, 2020 Inside Independent Publishing (with IBPA) 00:30:54

Topics Covered

  • What is IngramSpark?
  • Templates to make layout easier and books look more professional
  • The importance of a unique cover design
  • On-demand books for retail and wholesale markets
  • How has publishing changed in the past 10 years and what trends will continue? 
  • POD manufacture lets anyone be a publisher
  • Power of Amazon
  • Ease of bringing books to market
  • Is distribution getting too consolidated?
  • The rise of Bookshop.org
  • Benefits to working with established publishers as partners

Links

IngramSpark
https://www.ingramspark.com/

Participants

Robin Cutler has led the development of IngramSpark as an Ingram Content Group service for indie authors and publishers since 2013. During her career, she has published over 1,000 books as Assistant Director at USC Press, and CEO and founder of her own trade imprint, Summerhouse Press. Robin most recently worked for Amazon/CreateSpace. She has broad knowledge of indie, academic and trade publishing and is an expert in content creation, distribution, on-demand models, and author strategies. Follow Robin on Twitter @rcutlerbookpub and after she retires from Ingram in November 2020, contact her at robin@howtopublishbooks.com.

Peter Goodman (host) is publisher of Stone Bridge Press in Berkeley, California. He began his publishing career in Tokyo, Japan, in 1976. A longtime member of IBPA, he has served on the IBPA board and as IBPA board chair.

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