Advice and Cautions for Independent Publishing Authors: The Compiled Publishing-Subject Books of Jim Lowrance

• ISBN13: 9781475181906
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication Date: April 10, 2012
• Pages: 190
• Original Price: USD 8.19
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 227 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): E-Commerce / Digital Marketing

This book, being approximately 31,692 words in length, is a compilation of four titles (sections) I have previously published separately, on the subjects of book/eBook publishing, writing for revenue-sharing content websites and other subjects of interest for independent authors/publishers. This lengthier resource combines these titles, for readers who are interested in these subjects in more expanded detail. SECTION ONE CONTENTS: TITLE: "Are Revenue Sharing Article/Content Publishing Sites Beneficial?" SUBTITLE: "Legitimate Opportunities for Authors" CHAPTERS: CHAPTER ONE: My Personal Experience with Revenue Sharing Websites CHAPTER TWO: Things to Consider in a Content Revenue Site Contract CHAPTER THREE: Getting your own Blog or Website to Generate Revenue CHAPTER FOUR: My Plagiarism and Article Re-publishing Observations CHAPTER FIVE: Tips on other Types of Publishing and Republishing SECTION TWO CONTENTS: TITLE: "How To Avoid Negative Online Publishing Experiences" SUBTITLE: "Cautiously Marketing Your Intellectual Property" CHAPTERS: CHAPTER ONE: Avoiding Fly-By-Night Online Businesses: (A Simple Rule of Thumb) CHAPTER TWO: The Better Business Bureau: Not Just a Slap on the Wrist: (Bringing Resolution to Bad Online Business Practices) CHAPTER THREE: My Heated Exchange with an Online Beatles Radio Station: (Putting the Blue Meanies in Their Proper Place) CHAPTER FOUR: Removing my Blog from a Major Revenue Sharing Website Conglomerate: (The Strange Practices of a High-Profile Content Farm) CHAPTER FIVE: A Content Site Who Deleted Contributor Articles with No Warning: (One More for My List of Negative Writing Experiences) SECTION THREE CONTENTS TITLE: "Rants and Raves of an Indie eBook Publisher!" SUBTITLE: "Achieving Success with Digital Books" CHAPTERS: CHAPTER ONE: Publish Your eBook Free on Amazon KDP CHAPTER TWO: The BooksOnBoard eBook Publishing Platform CHAPTER THREE: Mean-Spirited Spam Book and eBook Reviews CHAPTER FOUR: Amazon's KDP Select: A Sales Boom for Me! CHAPTER FIVE: Is it a Good Thing to Write for Content Websites? CHAPTER SIX: My Unusually Negative Experience on a Publishers Help Board CHAPTER SEVEN: Content Farms: Authors Beware! CHAPTER EIGHT: Why I Write Short Subject Health eBooks/Books SECTION FOUR CONTENTS TITLE: "Corrupt Business Practices in Newspaper Circulation" SUBTITLE: "The Eye-opening Experiences of a Newsboy" CHAPTERS: CHAPTER ONE: Why I became a Newsboy CHAPTER TWO: Collection Time Shenanigans CHAPTER THREE: Tucked Away for a Rainy Day CHAPTER FOUR: How to Increase Newspaper Circulation without even Trying CHAPTER FIVE: Confessions of a Corrupt District Manager CHAPTER SIX: Ghost Routes Galore CONCLUSION

I am a husband, father, grandfather and lifetime contract salesman, with experience in health writing that began in 2004. I completed theological studies with Liberty University in 1996. I formerly served as editor and forum moderator of Thyroid Health for a major multi-topic content site and as a general health writer for another, where I received Editor's Choice Awards for my articles on health subjects. In 2003 I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism; "Hashimoto's thyroiditis" being the cause. This autoimmune form of thyroid disease that causes destruction of the thyroid gland resulted in my also developing "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome", due to a compromised immune system with severe co-morbid "Adrenal Fatigue". I also suffered severe anxiety symptoms, including panic attacks early into the onset of Hashimoto's thyroiditis (Hashitoxicosis). A common heart murmur I was diagnosed with in my teens called "Mitral Valve Prolapse", also worsened in severity of symptoms, with the development of these other health disorders. My eventual receiving of diagnoses was a difficult process with proper diagnostic testing not being ordered by the first doctors I sought treatment from. These types of issues were inspiration for me to become proactive in my own health care and to self-educate myself on these health disorders, which I have done extensively since 2003. I now enjoy sharing this information with other patients experiencing my same health disorders. During the early 1990s, I marketed an outdoors product I invented and that I formed a small corporation to patent, manufacture and sell called the "Rod Floater" (now a registered Trademark). I traveled the U.S. making presentations to groups of Wal-Mart zone and district managers and received authorization to sell the product in two regions of Wal-Mart stores for five years. I also sold the product to Bass Pro Shops, Cabela's and Academy Stores, all of which still carry the product and I landed a national promotion for the product with Kerr-McGee Oil Company who began using the product to promote their outboard motor oil in 1992. In 1996 I licensed the product to TTI-Blakemore, a major fishing tackle conglomerate, from which I am still paid royalties from sales of the product. I invented and marketed five additional outdoors products, also getting these into Wal-Mart stores and afterward sold them outright rather than licensing them. I was featured in the May 2001 issue of Inventors digest magazine.