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The digital era has not made publishers defunct | The Guardian

The idea that publishers “now appear frozen in the headlights of the onrushing digital revolution” is simply untrue. Long before the digital revolution had become a reality for readers, most major publishing houses have been planning and investing in their digital divisions in addition to “doing the day job”, publishing and selling their authors in [...]

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Multi-Purpose or Purpose-Built E-reading Devices? « PWxyz

Multi-Purpose or Purpose-Built E-reading Devices? « PWxyz

Hands down, I prefer the multipurpose eReader (iPad). I can read, I can watch video when I’m tired of reading. I chat share immediately via email and… well you get the point. I do enjoy my kindle, but overall? Multi-Purpose wins for me.

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Which Is Right For Your Book? – Self-Publishing vs Traditional Methods

One of the top questions authors and writers face is whether to self-publish or to use traditional methods to publish their books.
81% of Americans alone want to write and publish a book! Isn’t that astounding? Maybe you’re one of them and maybe you’ve been wrestling with which way is best for your book.
Today, I’d like [...]

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The Internet is Changing – And It Affects You

The Internet is Changing – And It Affects You

The Internet is never going to stay the same. There are new tools available that you are not using. And some pitfalls you have to watch out for.

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Video on #1 secret for getting major publicity

Check out this video from my friend Steve Harrison on the #1 secret for getting major national publicity at:
http://bit.ly/a5R5mU
There’s nothing like getting some major publicity to make sales soar for whatever you’re promoting.
In the publishing world, an appearance on a top national TV show like Oprah, Today, Good Morning
America, The View or article in major [...]

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Close Relationship with Your Publisher: Realizing that You Are Partners

Close Relationship with Your Publisher: Realizing that You Are Partners
The savvy Entrepreneurial Author views a publisher as a partner, for that in essence is what they are. Each benefits from the actions of the other. Each profits from the excellence of the other.
Once you realize that your publisher is actually your partner in the process, [...]

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Author 101 University – The Must-Attend Crash Course for Publishing Success

Author 101 University – The Must-Attend Crash Course for Publishing Success

Are you curious about what publishers like Harper Collins, Morgan James, Adams Media, Wiley, Random House, and Simon & Schuster are looking for? What is the best way to get your manuscript read when you’re an unpublished author? Want to know the biggest mistakes to avoid when writing book proposals? You’ll be engaged as these [...]

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The Lost Bush Memoir

There’s a shroud around George W. Bush’s soon to be released memoir. But, as Bryan Curtis reports, Bush and his team already wrote a book in the presidency’s final, excruciating days. And nobody noticed.

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How to get the media to love you

In almost every field, there are people who are extremely good at getting publicity.
The media loves them and they’re regularly on radio/TV shows and written-up in print publications.
They not only know how to get a ton of free coverage, but also how to profit from the coverage in the form of increased sales, name recognition, [...]

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Will the Book Survive?

Will the Book Survive?

Amidst all the doom and gloom of the book publishing industry, the CEO of Ingram Book Company, Skip Prichard, says books of all sorts are here to stay and we should embrace the change—and keep on reading.
The Kindle. The iPad. The Nook. Not to mention at least thirty other reading devices or Google [...]

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Kindle Cost Cut to $139 as Price War Begins – NYTimes.com

Kindle Cost Cut to $139 as Price War Begins – NYTimes.com

NYT — Amazon.com introduces two new versions of the Kindle eReader today, one for $139, the lowest price yet for the device.
Amazon is hoping to convince even casual readers that they need a digital reading device. By firing another shot in an eReader price war leading up to the year-end holiday shopping season, the eCommerce [...]

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Book Bloggers You Should Know

PW: Newspapers may be continuing to cut their book coverage, but the Internet is home to an ever-expanding hive of blogs about books. Some 250 book bloggers attended the first-ever Book Blogger Convention in May, an event held at Manhattan’s Javits Center the day after BEA ended. Sponsorships from major New York houses and lots of [...]

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Authors Guild Weighs In on Odyssey Editions, Warns Publishers to Raise E-book Royalties

PW: The Authors Guild has now weighed in on the intense debate that flared up last week over the Wylie Agency’s entry into e-book publishing, Odyssey Editions. In a memo posted today on its site, the Guild called the situation “the most important development in electronic publishing since Apple entered the market,” both celebrating the agency [...]

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Apple Updates iBooks – For the Second Time This Week!

We’re not sure what Apple’s got their App Store elves on these days, but for the second time this week they’ve pushed out an update to iBooks — this time apparently to squash a bug introduced in the earlier version.Apple has just pushed out a new update to iBooks, bring the universal app for the iPhone/iPod [...]

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Agency Stirs a Fuss in eBook Publishing Venture

The literary agent Andrew Wylie announced on Wednesday that he had started his own publishing venture and would produce e-book editions available exclusively on Amazon.com for 20 titles, including those by Philip Roth and Vladimir Nabokov.
Now Random House, which had previously staked a claim for the e-book rights to most of those books, has issued a forceful [...]