Great Advice

From speaker, writer and marketing coach Carol White — http://www.carolwhitemarketing.com/blog

Lots of great ideas from Judy Cullins -
http://www.bookcoaching.com/

The Shatskin Files — Serious, hardcore publishing perspectives
http://www.idealog.com/blog/

The Book Designer — by Joel Friedlander
http://www.thebookdesigner.com

A worthwhile blog by Rachelle Gardner — Literary Agent
http://www.rachellegardner.com/

Suess’s Pieces is a new favorite. Emily Suess tells it like it is about vanity presses and other publishing-related topics — http://blog.emilysuess.com/

Self-Publishing Resources

Writing
StoryMill for the Macintosh – marinersoftware.com
Scrivener — literatureAndLatte.com
Microsoft Word – office.com
Adobe™ Acrobat – adobe.com
Apple Pages – apple.com/iwork
Open Office – openOffice.org
Buzzword Word Processor – buzzword.com
ThinkFree — Online Office — thinkFree.com
Google Docs — docs.google.com

ISBN Numbers and Copyright
ISBN Numbers – bowker.com or
Enter ISBN Book Information – bowkerlink.com
U.S. Copyright Office – copyright.gov

Vanity Presses/Print On Demand (POD)
iUniverse – iUniverse.com
XLibris — xLibris.com

Print On Demand (POD)
Lightning Source (LSI) – LightningSource.com
CreateSpace – createspace.com

Page Layout
Quark XPress® – quark.com
Adobe™ inDesign® – adobe.com
Choosing Typefaces – fonts.com

Cover Design
Chip Kidd – goodisdead.com
Reid Miles/Blue Note album art – gokudo.co.jp/Record/BlueNote1
Apple iTunes – apple.com/itunes
Duncan Long’s Blog — http://duncanlong.com/book_cover_blog.html

eBooks
Amazon Kindle – kindle.com
Barnes & Noble’s Nook® – nook.com
Barnes & Noble’s Pub-it — barnesandnoble.com/pubit
Adobe™ Digital Editions – adobe.com/products/digitaleditions
SmashWords – smashWords.com
eBook Architects – eBookArchitects.com
Sigil – code.google.com/p/sigil
iTunes Producer – itunesconnect.apple.com
Adobe™ AIR – adobe.com/products/air
Adobe™ AIR Marketplace — adobe.com/go/airmarketplace
Richard Geller — aSiteAboutSomething.com
Google Books — books.google.com/googlebooks/tour/

Web-based Marketing
YouTube® – youtube.com
WordPress – wordpress.com
Blogspot – blogspot.com
Tumblr – tumblr.com
Blogger – blogger.com
Self-hosted WordPress – wordpress.org
Dave Bricker, The Dance – theDanceNovel.com
PayPal – paypal.com
GoDaddy Domain Registration – godaddy.com
Liquid Web Hosting – liquidweb.com
ConstantContact – constantcontact.com
Facebook – facebook.com
Technorati – http://technorati.com
Practical Freelance Writer’s Guide to Author Websites -
practicalfreelancewritersguide.com

Marketing on Amazon.com
Amazon’s Search Inside This Book — sellercentral.amazon.com
Amazon’s Digital Text Platform – dtp.amazon.com
Amazon’s Author Central – authorcentral.amazon.com