I mentioned a bit ago that I had put the last book I wrote, THE COMMITTEE, up for sale on Amazon’s Kindle platform to understand what authors’ experiences have been. I was surprised at the ease of the process and, once the book is available, how quickly changes can be made. The experience has given [...]
This weekend I have decided to try a little experiment. For a while I have been reading the articles about ebook self-publishing, particularly using the Kindle platform, from authors like J A Konrath, Seth Godin, Amanda Closing, John Locke, and others. As an experiment, I have decided to see what this publishing process is like [...]
An excellent article on book marketing by a man who got a blank book on Amazon’s bestseller chart.
I’ve launched novelty items before, and arguably some have been cleverer or funnier than this book, so why did this book become a global phenomenon?
Reasons the book blew big:
1. A great PR company, which reported stories about the [...]
Back in my home state, publishers are suing Georgia State University over their use of e-reserves. E-reserves are electroinc compilations of materials for courses put together by professors. Previously, professors put together reader packets by xeroxing parts of texts and compiling them together to be sold at the university bookstore. Universities claim this is covered [...]
Yesterday I attended the BISG NEXT Conference where participants tried to delineate what a publishers program would look like in 2020. One of the highpoints was a talk by Brian O’Leary from Magellan Media. One note that resonated in me was that when a book is put into its physical version, the links to the [...]
An excellent conversation between Amanda Hocking and barry Eisler on self publishing and why each has chosen their respective course.
Amanda: I actually didn’t have to do the calculations, because the wonderful Joe Konrath did them a while ago on his blog. He repeatedly broke it down, so I knew going with a legacy publisher, I [...]
Galleycat points out an interesting bit of math:
“[W]hat the publishers should be most concerned about, is the fact that a library of 2,500 books can be downloaded in a matter of hours. E-books are small files and 2,500 of them can be packed into a single download (Torrent) that’s only about 3.4GB. If you set [...]
Here’s a clear example of how twitter can help a book’s sales:
When Something Beginning With became available again as part of the Friday Project’s “Library of Lost Books”, publisher Scott Pack blogged about it on The Bookseller site, and Sarah Salway blogged about how lucky she felt to get a second chance.
Then author Neil Gaiman [...]
I have working a good deal with Bowker of late and have found their twitter feed a good resource, especially during this past week of Digital Book World. Here is a taste of Bowker’s latest insights into book consumers via their twitter feed:
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With BGI saying they will be unable to pay their suppliers, here is an article on the history of Borders and what brought it to the place it is in now.
Sometime when Borders tried to solve a problem, like getting a new inventory system for its mall stores in the mid 2000s, it managed to [...]
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