Publishing Newsbest of list / Black Friday deals / book-sales / Reader Habits / tech deals5 Comments
Soft July for Trade Sales – Not a huge surprise here, but more confirmation (in case you needed any) that publishers are likely still focused on big books that will drive sales. Also, physical books in both adult and children’s categories saw a decline in sales in July, 26.3% for ... more >
Publishing Newsbook analytics / book art / copyright / Harper Lee / mass market paperback / publishing / Reader Habits8 Comments
Harper Lee’s Estate’s First Order Of Business: Kill Off The Cheap Version Of To Kill A Mockingbird – If you were one of the people who was suspicious of the circumstances under which Lee’s Go Set A Watchman was published, this will likely raise your other eyebrow: according to this Techdirt article, Harper ... more >
Letters of OpinionAgency pricing / book buying habits / digital books / digital publishing / genres / print books / Reader Habits / subgeneres46 Comments
I don’t know about you all, but I could use a small breather from the heavy this week. So as I was thinking about this week’s post, I kept circling back to a couple of interesting tweets from Digital Book World. First, a comment from Kobo’s head bookseller, Nathan Maharaj, ... more >
Letters of Opinionbook length / genre criticism / Reader Habits / value75 Comments
I was being equal parts careless and provocative, when, the other day on Twitter, I tweeted the following: 1088 pages is just too long a book no matter how skilled a writer you are. Agree or disagree? Quite honestly, I was bored and looking for something to liven up my ... 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 >