WATCH: Self-Publishing – #SolutionsWatch
This week on #SolutionsWatch, James is joined by Tom-Oliver Regenauer, a self-taught publisher whose German language self-published books now regularly outsell major publishing houses in Germany. He discusses how and why he started Regenauer Press, how he self-publishes his books, how others can join the self-publishing revolution and produce actual print books that evade the digital censors, and how he used his skills to publish the German translation of REPORTAGE.
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This is really helpful.
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Oh, then it reappears!!!
Excellent info. With the digital virtual world, every venue for public access has system agent gatekeepers. The answer to the virtual world, is the physical, analog, world. This applies not only to publishing books, magazines, newspapers, zines, records, cds and self-organizing concerts as Tom-Oliver mentions, but to e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g. Whatever it is, apply it and try it. The internet has been locked down like everything else. Priced out, locked out, ruled out, trolled out, lorded over, but never down and out. When we figure it out, they’re OUT.
Until we truly question our reality our mind automatically defends it as true – from perceived threats—thus framed false.
Those who question their reality uncover core beliefs and definitions that had run ‘dark’ as a learned focus or adaptation to the world that can be seen as masking social agreements; we learn how to turn a blind eye selectively – which could be phrased as learning to see the Emperor’s New Robes— because our minds are conditioned by the imperatives or dictates of our particular human proclivities and our specific cultural context.
A deeper example of the ‘blind eye is in a quote I pinned to my X account:
Marketing is the tough bit.
Anybody can write and print a book … but getting the attention of potential buyers is extremely difficult.
For those with only 2 braincells yes. But for intelligent people its a nothing burger!
Excuse Moi messieurs.
Is it like LULU?
The big publishing houses have always been a law unto themselves;
Refusing, heavy editing, censoring or simply ignoring many writers.
Anyone who bypasses these corporate Turds is a hero.
Make em squirm Tom.
Even with your publishing approval, your still tangled up in the electronic hero’s banking system, now what? 1 for you 99 for them
There’s always the option of selling your books at markets, fairs, fetes, carnivals etc.
Worth a try anyway.
I got rich by digging a ditch, that sounds like real work
There’s a lot of plumbers out there who have made a VERY COMFORTABLE living digging ditches.