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A quick technical guide to indie publishing in the Philippines (Part 1)
Self-publishing — or, as I prefer to call it, independent/indie publishing — has come a long way from the dark ages when your only options were spending a ton of money to print and store hundreds of paperbacks and hand-selling them from your garage, or wasting a ton of money on a deal with a vanity press. The technology around publishing now lets each author become an independent book publishing business.
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VIDEO: Selling my ebooks and design products on Snack.ph
I’ve talked before about how Philippine-based creators can — and should — sell their digital products on Snack. While there are a lot of great digital selling platforms out there — I’ve used Gumroad and Payhip — Snack is particularly useful if a good chunk of your audience is in the Philippines because it accepts Gcash, PayMaya, and Grabpay payments (apart from Paypal and credit cards). These are mobile payment systems that most Pinoys have and don’t require credit cards, which allows you to widen your pool of potential customers.
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Have a Snack, sell your ebooks
Let’s face it, we Philippines-based creators have always had difficulty selling our products online because so many of our potential customers simply don’t have or don’t want to use credit cards. I’ve gotten a few emails from my readers telling me they couldn’t buy my ebooks, a thing that confused me a lot of the time because I thought it meant Amazon or Gumroad or whatever platform they’re trying to buy from wasn’t accepting their credit cards. It turns out, they meant they literally couldn’t buy my books. Because they didn’t have credit cards.
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I canceled my book … sort of
I thought my readers on Radish would appreciate having a free story. And some of them did. As of writing this, FMMBB on Radish has gotten 180k reads (about 3.75x the 48k reads on Wattpad, which was a surprise, since Wattpad has way more active users than Radish). However, while the reader comments on Wattpad has been lovely, the past few weeks nearly all the reader comments on the story on Radish have been complaints about how I was updating the story so slowly. How I should be posting more than one update a week.
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🎧 s2ep03: We need to talk about A.I.
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Show notes
- U of T collaborates with Naver, Wattpad on AI research (utoronto.ca)
- An AI-based voice program did the dialog delivery for Val Kilmer in Top Gun: Maverick (zmescience.com)
- Spotify is acquiring Sonantic, the AI voice platform used to simulate Val Kilmer’s voice in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ | TechCrunch
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🎧 s2ep01: Can you get tired of writing? Plus: the Radish Fiction app’s Wait-to-Unlock pricing model, retail hijinks, Patreon struggles
Transcript
Hello, this is Ansela, and you are listening to Adulting for Authors. Yeah, that’s right— I’m back.So yesterday, I decided to post a little message, a little note on Patreon for my patrons. And it was mostly to tell them that this week’s chapter for Fake-Married to my Billionaire Boss is late, which, of course they already knew. Because yesterday was Thursday, and I was supposed to post it on Monday. That’s what I promised right? At the beginning of the month of October, I posted a thing and said, Okay, so we’re going to do this more regular. I decided I should be more regular with my rewards. So once a week, at least for my $1 and $3 patrons. So I said every Monday — new chapter. At least, that’s to begin with. I might add some more stuff next month, but I didn’t want to overwhelm myself.
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I kinda have a Tiktok
My software updates were taking forever to get done, so I made a Tiktok.
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Don’t spend $3,000 to publish your first book
A person who’s only learning to self publish has no business spending $3,000. They’re at the stage where they don’t know what’s worth spending money on and what isn’t.
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Audio shenanigans
[red]I will sometimes mess around with text-to-speech. I figured listening to a software read my story out loud will, I dunno, help me prepare for human narration, I guess.[/red]
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New Wattpad story features (that I don’t have access to)
I was updating my apps the other day when the description of the Wattpad update caught my eye. It listed three features I’d never heard of.
