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Hello creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 749 of the podcast, and it is Sunday the 5th of May 24 as I record this.

In today's show, I'm talking with Shell Honica about using tools to automate your author business

and also shifting your attitude to technology so you can do more of what you love, like writing and creating.

So that's coming up in the interview section.

In publishing industry news and useful things, the Independent Book Publishers Association, the IBPA,

has released a guide to publishing models and author pathways. And there are

eight pathways on their document, including corporate trade publishers, what we generally call

big publishers, traditional publishers, as well as author publishers, which we call indie authors,

independent publishers or small presses, university presses, service providers and

more. And I think it's always good to look at what language is used by different groups of people.

So this is a free 20-page PDF. It's a good resource so you can see the ever-widening number of options that you have to get

your book into the world. It compares the models and it's a very high overview, but I think it's

interesting, goes into how each model is funded, how they generate income, who it might be

appropriate for and who it is not for.

Now, I would split the author publisher section into a lot more detail.

For example, the author who focuses on digital first, Amazon KU and Amazon ads,

is very different from the sell direct on Shopify or produce beautiful physical

editions on Kickstarter model or indeed the subscription models. There are just so many gradations of what

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