By Chip Rossetti Today’s Gulf News — the English-language daily based in Dubai — has an interesting piece on entrepreneurs in Lebanon who are using social media to build their businesses on the web. The first profiled is a comics-blogger-turned-author, Maya Zankoul, who ended up self-publishing her book, Amalgam, because no local publisher would take it on: even with a …
How Can Publishers Benefit from the Author-Entrepreneur?
By Mark Garcia-Prats In today’s feature article, Anna Lewis discusses the rise of “author-entrepreneur”: an author who not only writes and publishes their own book but successfully markets it using popular social networking tool. Anna goes on to say that publishers can benefit from this growing trend: whether that be by authors realizing the invaluable benefit that publishing companies can …