Resources

These resources are for book authors and promoters:

• Find agents, publishers; track submissions - WritersMarket.com
• Amazon Advantage book consignment service
  
• Printing: www.instantpublisher.com
  
• Publish on Demand: www.lulu.com — no up-front payment
  
• Publish on Demand: www.createspace.com — no up-front payment
  
• Publish on Demand: www.xlibris.com —up-front payment
  
• Publish on Demand: www.authorhouse.com —up-front payment
  
• Publish on Demand: www.trafford.com —up-front payment
  
• Software to create your own book covers, with templates (PC & Mac): BookCoverPro
  
• Copyright info: www.copyright.gov
  
• ISBN info: www.isbn.org
  
• Reputation-based services auction, for graphic designers, editors, and much more: www.elance.com
  
• Programmers for hire: www.rentacoder.com
• Book cover design service: www.writesideout.com/bookcover-home.htm
• Blogs, wikis, article sites & distribution services, social networks:
  
  • Hubpages – www.hubpages.com - Create your own page and promote your content
  • Wetpaint – www.wetpaint.com - Wiki platform
  • Squidoo – www.squidoo.com - Create your "lens," publish your articles, and network with other users
  • Clearblogs – www.clearblogs.com - Blogging service
  • Blogspot – www.blogger.com - Google's free blogging service
  • MySpace – www.myspace.com - Microsoft's popular social network
  • AOL Journals – http://peopleconnection.aol.com/blogs - Another blog service
  • Quizilla – www.quizilla.com - Youth, entertainment
  • Experience – www.experienceproject.com - Share experiential anecdotes
  • Scribd – www.scribd.com - convert your documents to iPaper format (Flash) and publish
  • Facebook – www.facebook.com - The largest social network. Create your own page, join groups and interact in the community, create events, network with others, and create your own group
  • Zimbio – www.zimbio.com - Publish articles and submit your blogs
  • Wikispaces – www.wikispaces.com - Another Wiki platform
  • Tumblr – www.tumblr.com - Post your article easily
  • Flickr – www.flickr.com - Share your photos and include your articles too
  • Twitter – www.twitter.com - Let the world know what you are up to
  • Mahalo – www.mahalo.com - Publish your articles for free
  • Associated Content – www.associatedcontent.com - Article distribution service
  • Helium – www.helium.com - Post articles
  • E How – www.ehow.com - Become an expert and publish valuable advice.
  • Wiki How – www.wikihow.com - Give advice
  • Ezine Articles – www.ezinearticles.com - Good article distribution service
  • Go Articles - www.goarticles.com - Another article distribution service
  • Articles Base – www.articlesbase.com - Another articles site
  • Article Alley – www.articlealley.com - Free article-publishing service
  • Google Knol - http://knol.google.com - A Google article distribution service
• Mindmapping software (not quite the same as clustering, but close) - Open Source - Freemind
• Mindmapping software, commercial - MindManager