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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"self-publishing"”.
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Digital Self-publishing as Planned Behaviour: Authors' Views on E-book Adoption
A popular school of thought in the study of publishing, exemplified by the influential Long Tail theory, suggests that the economic advantages of e-books will lead to a boom in self-publishing. However, this position focuses on economic factors at the expense of other potential influences. This …
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Developing Solar War
… work on Solar War picked up, culminating in the self-publishing of my game on Steam on March 17th, 2025.
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La fiscalitat en el comerç electrònic d'obres escrites en format digital i en paper, en el marc d'una activitat d'auto-publicació per part dels propis autors
… over the Internet by the author him- or herself, a process known as self-publishing. In this work, a case study is drawn up in which the implications of the activity of an author resident in Spain and selling his work over the Internet to customers in both Spain and other European countries …
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Welcome Home Stranger: The Evolution & Assimilation of the Queer Monster
… has been reappropriated in the digital self-publishing age to celebrate queer power and speculate on future incarnations of monstrous queerness in comics visual culture.</p>
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Losing home: Housing, displacement, and the American Dream
… the past decade, new oral history archives and self-publishing platforms have led to an explosion in the production of memoirs and oral histories of homelessness. This dissertation frames the growing genre of homeless life narratives as a form of urban theory that has been largely displaced from …
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Quantifying aesthetics of visual design applied to automatic design
… design creation tools to help non-designers in self-publishing, and designers in inspiration and creativity. Arguably, unlike visual arts where the main goals may be abstract, visual design is conceptualized and created to convey a message and communicate with audiences. Therefore, we develop a …
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Fandom & Social Media: SFF Authors & The Publishing Industry [Science Fiction & Fantasy]
… new avenues for promotion which traditional publishing sought to make use of, especially when they saw how effective these had been for self-published authors. Moreover, the ongoing competition between traditional and self-publishing promoted further development in the industry as a whole. …
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Seamfulness: Nova Scotian Women Witness Depression through Zines
… adult women. Through storytelling sessions and self-publishing workshops, I explored four young Nova Scotian women's depression as a productive site for growth. Participants include four young women, including myself, who experienced depression in their early 20s, and have not had a major …
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Writer María Luisa Garza: Precursor of Hispanic Feminism
… novels and exposes her literary liberty when self-publishing them. What discursive growth or differences are apparent in the novels as compared to the crónicas? Lastly, Garza’s activism is vital to understanding her and the research here highlights her community involvement. Finally, the work …
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Inventory’s paper assembly: fierce sociology, sovereignty and self-organisation in London’s small press publishing scene 1995 to 2005
… and its place within theories of knowledge, publishing, artistic practice, ethnography, politics and critical theory. The initial movement of the thesis, Chapter 1, establishes Inventory’s formal structure as a journal. Chapter 2 establishes the presuppositions and models for the use of a …
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Value Creation from Complements in Platform Markets: Studies on the Video Game Industry
… and relative market performance compared to the self-publishing strategy. We conclude that the differences in performance can be traced back to specialized complementary assets required for successful commercialization. Technological change, such as the advent of digital distribution platforms, …
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Social Gatekeeping, the Serendipitous Tie and Discovery: Authors Connecting Readers to Books through Social Media Outreach
… 20% or more of sales from many of the biggest publishing companies. This hyper-abundance of titles in an increasingly heterogeneous market place has made it difficult for consumers to connect to books they might want to read. This is the discovery problem. It is compounded by the continuing …