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Ashton Rodenhiser on beta reading a highly visual book

Lessons learned from 1500+ reader reactions

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Useful Books
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Take the pressure off launch

If you’re playing the long game, the first few weeks just don’t matter

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Useful Books
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How to choose a title for your nonfiction book

Your title, subtitle, and cover should convey your book’s promise to readers

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Useful Books
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Launch Experiments with Jeff Gothelf

Lessons learned from launching book 5: What worked and what didn’t

Interview
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Useful Books
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Focus on a problem, not a topic

Write the best book in the world — not for everyone, but for someone

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Useful Books
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Write for the back catalog

Design your book for lifetime sales

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Useful Books
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Amazon KDP setup

How best to handle the confusing KDP options

Guide
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Rob Fitzpatrick
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Jermey Matthews (Acquisitions Editor @ MIT Press)

Tradpub nuance, popular science, market research vs. timing, and entrepreneurial authors

Interview
by
Rob Fitzpatrick
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Strategic Email for Authors with Brennan Dunn

Brennan's personal playbook for using email to drive his book launch

Interview
by
Rob Fitzpatrick
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Nir Eyal on selling a million copies via curiosity, learning, and sharing

Q&A with the bestselling author of Hooked and Indistractable

Interview
by
Rob Fitzpatrick
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Don’t bet your book's success on “winning the PR lottery”

How to unlock long-term organic growth by designing around a strong Recommendation Loop

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Rob Fitzpatrick
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Jake Knapp on designing nonfiction worth reading

Lessons & insights from a master product designer

Interview
by
Devin Hunt
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Bulk printing options

For bulk sales to events, corporates, and universities

Guide
by
Rob Fitzpatrick
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The Bad / Good Design Pattern for nonfiction that teaches

Why so much “right advice” fails to stick and how to teach better

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Rob Fitzpatrick
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How an Academic Turned Innovation Expert Created Massively Successful Books

Tendayi Viki on sounding pretentious and other mistakes authors make

Interview
by
Rob Fitzpatrick
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How to Turn 12-year olds into Published Authors

Emma Barnes on the publishing industry and its future

Interview
by
Rob Fitzpatrick
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How Janel Loi Sold Thousands of Dollars With her Notion products

Advice on pricing, positioning, and getting started

Interview
by
Rob Fitzpatrick
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Editor Adam M Rosen on How Authors Screw Up Their Books

The traps self-publishing authors fall into

Interview
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Rob Fitzpatrick
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Jeff Gothelf on Becoming Forever Employable

Lessons from a 4x author

Interview
by
Rob Fitzpatrick
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Why most nonfiction fails to make money

Four royalty-wrecking blunders & how to fix them

Article
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Rob Fitzpatrick
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Alex Hillman's Hard-Won Business Lessons Distilled Into a Pocket Guide

Writing a tiny, useful book.

Interview
by
Rob Fitzpatrick
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Interior Page Layout for Print

An overview of the tools and options

Guide
by
Rob Fitzpatrick
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April Dunford on Nailing Positioning

Making sure customers get what you do and buy from you.

Interview
by
Rob Fitzpatrick
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Arvid Kahl on the business, product, and process of nonfiction

The best-selling author of Zero to Sold opens up about ideas, audience, platform, and profits

Interview
by
Rob Fitzpatrick
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Self publishing checklist

Reminders and gotchas on the crucial tasks

Guide
by
Rob Fitzpatrick
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My favorite books about books

Seven irresistably useful & enjoyable books about writing

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Rob Fitzpatrick
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