Karina/distribution research

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8 MAY

The Espresso Book Machine
http://www.abc.nl/frontpage/ebm/index.php?pod=Y&show=ebm_info

American Book Centre Self Publishing Guidelines
http://www.abc.nl/frontpage/ebm/guidelines/guidelines_en.pdf

wise advice

  • "If your file has .PDF or .pdf at the end, you have successfully saved it as a PDF file."
  • "standing rectangle" (vertical)
  • "lying rectangle" (horizontal)


9 DECEMBER

making a press release / PR kit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w82kzFJuFqNUUvddPZaRyz2hol_rl3ysriTLhUXFmrI/edit?usp=sharing

https://www.shopify.com/blog/44447941-how-to-create-a-press-kit-that-gets-publicity-for-your-business
http://www.thecreativepenn.com/2013/04/23/press-kit/


13 OCTOBER

Notes taken during So You Want to Publish a Magazine? event at Spui 25 in Amsterdam. Speakers present: Ibrahim Nehme (The Outpost), Kirsten Algera & Ernst van der Hoeven (MacGuffin) and Peter Bilak (Works That Work) and Angharad Lewis (presenting her new book So You Want to Publish a Magazine)


10 OCTOBER

Notes on Evernote
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s368/sh/a6aa45ef-f64f-44e3-8b63-277d0dfc3a47/6f9197ab91cdc19bbbd8e4497dc5c202

Instagram Tips to get more followers
http://petapixel.com/2016/10/03/instagram-game-16-tips-chris-burkard-2m-followers/

Entrepreneur - marketing & funding
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/160238


25 SEPTEMBER

Time and attention as resources

Reading list:

The Economist
Why is everyone so busy? Time poverty problem partly perception and partly distribution

The Next Web
Twitter’s new ad format sounds a lot like legitimizing clickbait

The Next Web
Facebook might finally kill clickbait with new algorithm tweaks


19 SEPTEMBER

Notes on Evernote
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s368/sh/d573dddc-08f5-4285-8b29-e06f5edfa3d9/e84ea4b8fc222a8f526ba2df4be563e1

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst” - William Penn
"Attention is a resource—a person has only so much of it." - Matthew Crawford