FeaturesAdvertisement / blogging / Book Reviews / viral-blogging15 Comments
Publishers Weekly has posted a special online issue devoted to virality and books. It’s very much directed toward the trade and focuses on what publishers and industry folks can do to “harness” the internet, including blogging themselves. Publishing Trends has a multi-part series focused on the new world of book ... more >
Letters of OpinionAdvertisement / Literary Criticism / paid reviews26 Comments
So Rat has a problem with paid reviews. No, wait, he has a problem with a blogger receiving any kind of renumeration, which for him includes a free book. His argument raises all sorts of issues which I thought I would lay out in a blog post. First, though, let ... more >
Publishing NewsAdvertisement / Barnes & Noble / book business / Kindle / Newspapers / Sony18 Comments
Barnes and Noble’s retail sales have slipped 5% because of low retail traffic while the web sales are up a tiny fraction from 8.2 to 8.9%. I’ve just scrambled to recover from one of my busiest weeks in a long time and I think that web sales are up because ... more >
Publishing NewsAdvertisement / Amazon60 Comments
Amazon has filed for another patent to insert advertisements into ebooks and print on demand books. The patent is 21 pages long and has a number of descriptions about how the advertisements will be inserted including in the margins and in full pages throughout the book. The consumer will be ... more >
Publishing NewsAdvertisement / Ebooks / Kindle / marketing / piracy / websites8 Comments
According to PublishersMarketplace (subscription needed), the data shows that there is close to 1 million Kindles out in the wilds of readerdom and that the previously provided statistic that if a book is available in print and Kindle, 1 out of 3 purchases is a Kindle purchase is confirmed by ... more >
Letters of OpinionAdvertisement / marketing / Tessa Dare47 Comments
see more Lolcats and funny pictures Back during our April Fool festivities when I pretended I was an agent and had stolen Ann Aguirre away from the fabulous Laura Bradford, I posted Ann’s faux deal involving a story featuring weredeer. Courtney Milan joined in the fun and blogged about how ... more >