Fans, Friends & Followers: Building an Audience and a Creative Career in the Digital Age

Lots of folks you’ve seen at SXSW are featured in the book, including artist Natasha Wescoat, pioneering videoblogger Ze Frank, singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton, Burnie Burns of “Red vs. Blue,” comedian Eugene Mirman, documentarian Curt Ellis, and DJ Spooky.

Hey, South-by-Southwesters: for the duration of the 2010 festival, I made the complete e-book of Fans, Friends & Followers available for free as a way of saying “thanks”: the SXSW community was incredibly helpful to me in researching and writing this book.

But the book is once again on sale, in e-book (PDF), Kindle, and paperback form.

There’s still a free, 35-page PDF preview here, and lots of “bonus material” here. I’ve also set up a wiki with a chunk of material from the book that discusses the online tools that are most useful to artists and creative folks; you’re encouraged to add to it.

I’ll report soon on the results of this little distribution experiment on my blog, CinemaTech. (In twelve days, there were more than 22,000 downloads of the e-book.)

Thanks for your interest and your support!