Letters of Opinioncriticism-of-romance / genre critique / reader communities / reader policing6 Comments
There was much discussion this past week about critiquing and policing in online communities. Robin’s post last week kicked off a lively discussion in the comments and on Twitter, and I started to see examples of the tension she highlighted in post throughout the week, here at Dear Author and ... more >
Publishing NewsGoodreads / Rape / reader communities20 Comments
As Goodreads grows up, it can’t please everyone. Should it try? – Laura Hazard Owen recounts Goodreads weekend fumbling as it tries to appease its paying customers – authors and publishers. In doing so, it made a lot of readers angry. As you know, Goodreads announced on its help forum ... more >
Ebookslending / reader communities / Reader Habits26 Comments
I have a friend whose tastes in books are somewhat similar to mine. She would frequently ask me what I purchased and I found so many times that our tastes overlapped. Why not share an ebook account, I proposed. We both have multiple Kindle devices and so I signed us ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / reader communities / Reader Habits9 Comments
The coming era of ‘on-demand’ marketing – Don Linn tweeted this link out. The article describes the movement toward on demand access by consumers to all things and how marketing has to evolve to meet that. For businesses that rely on brick and mortar stores, this line may be chilling: ... more >
Publishing Newsebook sales / LibraryThing / reader communities6 Comments
E-book Sales Bolster Publishers’ Bottom Lines – While the adoption of ebooks isn’t providing a one to one replacement of the loss of physical book sales, PW reports that none of the Big 5 publishers had a margin of less than 9% in 2012. Higher sales of ebooks was creating ... more >
Letters of Opinionreader communities / reader-word-of-mouth / word of mouth23 Comments
In a recent Wall Street Journal article (1) it was noted that books by 60 self published authors have been acquired by traditional publishers. 2012 was definitely the year of the self published author from E.L. James to Tammara Weber to Colleen Hoover. While there are some bloggers who are ... more >