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Goodreads Takes Next Step in Social Reading

Americans spend nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs, according to the latest Nielsen research, and the most conservative estimates predict eBooks will represent...

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Don’t Be a Writer, Be a Creator

You know what’s never, ever happened to me as a transmedia writer? Rejection! Nope, I’ve never, ever received a transmedia rejection letter. That’s because there is no gatekeeper for the internet. You...

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Amazon vs. Google: Seth Godin Wins

There’s a lot of hubbub right now about Google eBooks finally launching, with pundits o’plenty lining up to declare it the latest Kindle Killer, this time with the added bonus of it being the savior...

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Ready for Publishing Camp NYC?

Concrete jungle where dreams are made of, There’s nothing you can’t do, Now you’re in New York!!! These streets will make you feel brand new, the lights will inspire you, Let’s hear it for New York,...

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Marketing Yourself in the Digital Age

Earlier today I had the pleasure of presenting a session at the 2011 Writer’s Digest Conference on “Marketing Yourself in the Digital Age” to an enthusiastic room  of about 75 or so authors — I was on...

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When Content is Everywhere, Marketing is Queen

Checkmate By Marco Vossen I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling emails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc. Right now, being me is a full time corporation. As I...

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Ebook Project: Handmade Memories (Part I)

There’s a rumor going around that you can get rich by self-publishing ebooks, so I decided to finally throw my hat in the ring and follow my own advice, putting together a manuscript of favorite poems...

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6Qs: Alex de Campi, Comics Innovator and Provocateur

“We are not anywhere near the digital future yet with comics. There is so much exciting ground to be staked out!” Alex de Campi For someone known for pushing boundaries, Alex de Campi‘s bio is rather...

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Penguin’s Modest Self-Publishing Gamble

Risk by Parl, via Flickr In 2011 Author Solutions generated revenues of approximately $100m, growing at an average annual rate of 12% over the past three years. Its business is split broadly evenly...

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6Qs: Tobias Buckell, Traversing Publishing’s Diverse Fantastic

“It was a roller coaster, and it was more work than I expected. But at the end of it, I have another book, one that in a prior age might never have been written.” One of the good (and bad) things about...

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As Ebook Dust Settles, Publishing’s Future Remains Bright

Not quite six years ago, in the waning moments of the inaugural Digital Book World conference and shadow of the iPad’s disruptive (for all of the wrong reasons) reveal, I offered some closing remarks...

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Publishing Diversity Games: Catching Fire

‘‘And, for writers who are trying to challenge the pandering of the white gaze, if you have to go through a series of gatekeepers who are uniformly white, you’re going to end up with something that’s’’...

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Get A Clue(train) — Sustainable Digital Strategy for Author Platforms

In reality, markets consist of human beings and the conversations they have with each other, and those conversations can be messy and involve multiple points of influence. For authors trying to develop...

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Publishing’s Brooklyn Problem

Much like Google didn't disintermediate big ad agencies via AdWords, nor TV networks or Hollywood studios via YouTube, but instead provided new channels for those who had no need for the Super Bowl,...

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KDP Select: Is It Worth It?

If you're an author who has already been shook and sold your soul and firstborn to Jeff Bezos, I can see this seeming like a good short-term deal, but the potential repercussions are huge. The post KDP...

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Should more writers attend publishing conferences?

What comes with authors' shift to the business side is the reality that the water gets a lot deeper, particularly when it comes to attending conferences and registration fees. If you want to be a true...

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Pottermore—When Disintermediation Goes Awry

While it's interesting to see the affiliate script flipped on Amazon, with their redirecting traffic to purchase the ebooks (surely with a nice cut of the revenue), the user experience leaves a lot to...

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That Time Publishing Lost its Sense of Humor and Missed the Point

And that is ultimately the point I took from Biggs' post. Again, it's not new, but when so many outside observers feel the need to continually repeat it, maybe it's because the message isn't getting...

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Publishers should be fretting over the illness, not its symptoms

The idea that publishers are fretting over losing a few past-their-prime bestselling authors is the least interesting aspect of Amazon's growing "traditional" publishing operation, but it sure has been...

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