The results from the Book Industry Study Group’s “Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading” survey are now available! Thanks to Publishers Weekly magazine’s interpretation of the findings, here are the trends that we found to be important: Kindle and Nook are growing in popularity. Even those who were reading e-books before on different platforms are jumping […]
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Every week, I see a new piece on Publishers Weekly about a new app related to a book. Here’s this week’s piece. And here’s last week’s. Notice anything? Yes, they’re all apps related to children’s books. Some of the cool things that these apps offer include games, an audio reading of the book, artwork, zoom
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I work with many authors who wonder if they should publish an e-book. On the other hand, some ONLY want to publish e-books. But which one is really going to sell? To find that out, we go to the source: the readers. What exactly are readers’ preferences in 2011? Paper books or e-books? First, we
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I speak with many authors who are interested in turning their book (or a segment of it) into an eBook that can easily be purchased and downloaded. I also get lots of questions from authors about eBooks and how to create them — most of which I don’t have the expertise to answer. With that
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I came across two different articles in the last two days that are about completely separate things, but they both relate to self-publishing. And they’re both pretty encouraging for those who opt to self-publish. First, I saw this piece about literary agents shifting careers to become self-publishing consultants. The article spotlights three different agents who,
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The internet is a vast world. There are millions of websites, any of which could be talking about you and/or your book right now. So how is an author supposed to know what’s being said? Or worse, how to find the source of incorrect information? Thankfully, there are a few things you can do to
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The BookNet Canada Technology Forum started this week. And the early message? Community is the key! In this Publisher’s Weekly article, they talk about a presentation by digital marketing guru Mitch Joel, president of Twist Image. Here are the highlights… Publishers always used to promote books to a wide audience, hoping that a small percentage
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The NY Times posted an article the other day about an author who achieved a great deal of success through self-publishing … and is now getting offers from major publishing houses. It just goes to show you, do everything right via self-publishing and you, too, could have the big-wigs fawning over you soon enough! Read
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There was an interesting article in the NY Times recently about the increase in book sales in places other than bookstores (which is good … because bookstores are few and far between nowadays). And this gets me to thinking about authors who are promoting their books themselves … which is nearly everyone. Authors really need
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This article, posted just a few hours ago by Mark Coker in the Huffington Post, says it all about the state of book publishing today. Not a day goes by when I don’t speak with an author who’s self-publishing — not because they can’t find a publisher, but because there’s very little benefit to going
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