(Newswire.net — April 15, 2013) Chicago, IL — Self-publishing is an industry on the rise, tripling in size and scope over the past few years. The growing financial and commercial successes of self-published authors have encouraged tens of thousands of others to attempt to emulate those role models, with varying and limited success. “Author’s Paradise,” a self-publishing blog that is a month old as of today, is rapidly establishing itself as a top resource among self-publishing websites.
The website contains over 225 pieces of content, the majority of which is curated. Curation is the practice of sorting through digital content to find high-quality material appropriate to a given niche (in this case, self-publishing). The curator presents the content to a readership by citing the source, providing excerpts of the content, and adding their own interpretation or analysis of the content. Curation is itself a quickly-developing digital industry that boasts high popularity in the blogging community.
Author’s Paradise recently underwent a huge spike in its Facebook membership, adding over 450 likes in a period of five days. A recent article about the controversial use of a single-space after a period vs. a double-space contributed greatly to the site’s explosion in popularity, as did an in-house generated meme picture, titled “women with clean houses do not have finished books.” The image was shared 154 times and was seen by over 13,000 people within hours of its appearance.
For more information about Author’s Paradise, please visit its website http://authorsparadise.com/ and its Facebook page.
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