Comments on: Q&A: Amy Edelman of IndieReader

By: Self-Publishing Review — Blog — Guest Post – An Author Creates a Website for Consumers: IndieReader

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:31:08 +0000

[...] Amy Edelman, who started the site, has published with Crown and Simon & Schuster. Her interview at Editor Unleashed goes into further detail about the [...]

By: Owen

Owen — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:14:51 +0000

Time to be a contrarian. I completely disagree. The world most exactly does NOT need a self-appointed arbiter of what is worthwhile in self-publishing. Talk about not understanding and not perceiving the sea-change. Elvis left the building a while ago and is off making direct connections with readers, followers, fans and purchasers.

By: April L. Hamilton

April L. Hamilton — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:42:08 +0000

I have some questions about Indiereader – http://snurl.com/i47zz

By: Guest Post – An Author Creates a Website for Consumers: IndieReader | Self-Publishing Review

Wed, 13 May 2009 16:37:23 +0000

[...] Amy Edelman, who started the site, has published with Crown and Simon & Schuster. Her interview at Editor Unleashed goes into further detail about the [...]

By: Faye Knight

Faye Knight — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:13:24 +0000

Sounds like a great marketing tool…but how well is IR marketing themselves? This is the first I’ve heard of them. It makes me wonder if they limited to web only, or if they really do have visibility out there

By: Tumblemoose

Tumblemoose — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:45:19 +0000

My favorite book store locally is not Borders or Barnes & Noble. It’s a indie called Title Wave. The feel is so much more personal than the box stores. The folks how work there obviously love what they do. They don’t consider themselves as being “retail”. They view themselves as book people.

I’m very excited about the IndieReader site.

Thanks for the resource Maria.

Cheers

George

By: Jon Batson

Jon Batson — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:24:33 +0000

Excellent article and nice work spotting this. It is just what we need, and you are right, the movies and the music scene are surviving through independent artists. Books should as well. The large companies are run by old men getting ready to retire, therefore unwilling to risk a change in the status quo. It’s time for us to bring about change.

By: Michael J. Vaughn

Michael J. Vaughn — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:55:20 +0000

Hi DD – IR is actually sort of an amazon.com, if you will, but strictly for self-published books. They don’t do any publishing themselves, just serve as a retail outlet, and will also cover self-published authors with feature stories and reviews.

And actually, their standards are (what I am hoping) will set them apart from a large portio of the self-publishing world, which will just take the money and not care about quality. We need a voice out there saying, “Here’s the good stuff!”

Oh, and for Linda – it seems IR is pretty focused on self-published authors, so they probably won’t do small presses. But who knows? Maybe they’ll expand later.

Thanks I should have given in the article (whoops!) for our Ultimate Cheapskate, who turned me on to this site after spotting it at HARO (Help a Reporter Out).

By: Digital Dame

Digital Dame — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:24:54 +0000

If they’re going to be giving a yay or nay to publishing these books, I’m a little fuzzy on how this differs from a traditional publisher? Apart from simply ensuring the author has a good grasp of grammar and spelling, they intimate there will be more criteria to getting published through them so I’m not sure I see what the difference is, apart from the author footing the bill instead of the publishing house.

By: Cheryl Barker

Cheryl Barker — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:35:33 +0000

This is the first time I’ve heard of IndieReader. Thanks for the informative post.