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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. ...
What ‘FREE’ Means In Web World Speak
In the last two years that I've been offering free video quick query letter critiques, writers know that I post them sans all identifying information. Why do I offer this service? I'm good at it and the videos expand my real-time workshop ...
Next Amazon Novel Winners Will be Published by Amazon…Not Penguin
COMING SOON!
If you want to submit your novel to this contest, you need to get it ready for possible publication by Amazon! The inaugurial contest, held in 2012, offered the winner publication through Penguin. Amazon's has changed the rules just ...
Tim Ferriss: Writing Is The Easy Part
Take a look at a day (or week) in the life of a NYT best selling independent author, Tim Ferriss. As I tell writers all the time,writing the book is the easiest part. Selling it? Ah, there's the challenge. Click ...
Simon & Schuster’s New Self Publishing Imprint: Archway Publishing
Yep, Simon & Schuster have joined the other titans of publishing by adding a self publishing arm that caused one commenter on PW to write this: There's a typo in your headline. I think you meant to say 'Simon & ...
Author Tim Ferriss Defies Traditional Publishing!
'.....Last week, Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa Foolproof: Recipes You Can Trust sold roughly 66,000 books through BookScan. If you walk into Barnes & Noble, you will likely see walls of her books, which her publisher has paid for, just like Coca-Cola pays ...
Reinvention After 70? Author Madeline Sharples Did Just That!
I studied journalism in high school and college and wrote for the high school newspaper, but I started to fulfill my dream to work as a creative writer and journalist late in life. My memoir, Leaving the Hall Light On: A ...