Archives for January, 2013
Why Indie Author Did NOT Sell His e-Book Rights to Simon & Schuster
Click here to read this inspiring story of an author who initially said 'No Thank-You' to Simon & Schuster's offer to publish his ebook.
'.....At some point, he said, when you’re making enough money, you want to please your customers.'
Amazon: E-book Sales Soared, Print Crawled
'...In a statement accompanying its fourth quarter and full year results for 2012, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos neatly summed up where he sees the future of book retailing heading--especially for his company. “We’re now seeing the transition we’ve been expecting,” ...
TWITTER HASH TAGS for WRITERS
If you tweet, you know that the Twitter universe is vast. How do you reach other writers? Hashtags help. What are they? Words that reflect your subject matter that are tagged like #this.
Here's Twitter's definition: The # symbol, called a hashtag, ...
Fan-Based Attacks Can Kill Books Like This One
Writes New York Times reviewer, David Streitfeld: Reviews on Amazon are becoming attack weapons, intended to sink new books as soon as they are published.
Randall Sullivan is the author of “Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson. ...