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Book Marketing – The One True Way
To prepare for my Christmas Sales I’ve been reading a lot of book marketing posts. And what a lot of them there are. You can’t visit a writers’ forum these days without stumbling across marketing advice. But… while some of … Continue reading
Writing in the Digital Age: Hard Data, Numbers and Mark Coker of Smashwords
I have my indie backlist books distributed to Sony, iBooks, Kobo, etc. through Smashwords.com. So I keep up with what Mark Coker, CEO of Smashwords, has to say about the marketplace. Today, I’m sharing some VID (very important data).
Posted in Book View Cafe, eBooks, Writers on Writing
Tagged eBooks, kelly mcclymer, long tail, marketing, sales data, smashwords, writing in the digital age
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Writing in the Digital Age: Open Your Umbrellas, The Giants are Crying
On the heels of the 2012 Digital Book World conference, we’ve had a slew of publishers trying to regain their immeasurable clout by dissing libraries, innovation, and Amazon. The Author’s Guild came out squarely on the side of the traditional … Continue reading
Weird and Wonderful: Digital Book World and Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
So I’m tweeting along, minding my own business, when up pops a very nice tweet from @glecharles about how Book View Café is getting epublishing right. How wonderful! And weird. Who @glecharles is, I can’t remember. I’ve always enjoyed his … Continue reading
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Tagged authors, Digital Book World, ebook, epublishing, fiction, glecharles, Guy LeCharles, marketing, marketing fiction
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