Online Book Tours for Authors & Publishers The face of the Publishing Industry has change dramatically over the last years, and is still changing in fact. We find ourselves in a time when the hard print medium is losing ground to the virtual medium...
| Send to Twitter Amazon now sells almost twice as many digital books as hardbacks in the United States, it’s clear that publishing is changing.
| Send to Twitter Alibris Empowers Authors to Promote and Sell More Books
Online marketplace launches Author Stores as direct-sales channels for academic, mainstream, and self-published authors
EMERYVILLE, Calif., May 24 /PRNewswire/ — Alibris announced today that its marketplace for new and used books has been enhanced in order to give authors and publishers direct access to millions of book-buying shoppers. Newly launched Author Stores empower self-published and mainstream authors, academics, and other writers — as well as their publishers — to easily promote and sell their books and other publications through the world’s largest online sales network.
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Author Stores give publishers of all kinds a new, unparalleled distribution channel. Once signed up to sell through an Author Store, authors and publishers merely need to list their books once and they will be promoted and sold worldwide to eager shoppers through the following sites:
Alibris Author Stores are customizable and enable authors to showcase their books through the following promotional tools:
These features can be previewed on a sample Alibris Store. Alibris will also provide demonstrations of Author Stores at Book Expo America, on May 26 and 27 at the Javits Center (booth #4651) in New York City.
“Authors are central to the Alibris marketplace,” said Brian Elliott, Alibris president and CEO. “Our dedicated customers and business partners come to Alibris looking for selection and to discover new books.” Elliott explained that it’s now better than ever for authors and publishers to sell directly to this engaged customer base. “Over a third of our marketplace sales are new books — most of those solidly in the ‘long tail’ — and through the new Author Stores sales channel and its dynamic features, authors can promote and sell more books.”
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| Send to Twitter Educating aspiring authors about creating a book proposal is what new website BookProposalWriting.com offers.
In addition, they have a free online “Book Proposal Writing Workshop,” which teaches writers and book authors how to write a book proposal in seven days or less. The Workshop covers important topics such as: “Why write a book proposal first?,” “How to generate ideas to write your book proposal,” “How to write your book’s blurb for your book proposal,” and “How to write your book proposal query letter.” At the end of the Workshop, aspiring book authors can download a free sample book proposal and use it as a working template for their own work-in-progress proposals.
You’ll also find many free how-to articles and audio articles on writing, designing and selling a book, as well as many instructional videos showing step-by-step how to write different components of a book proposal.
While there are lots of links to their advertisers, there are also some solid examples of how-to create a book propsal for a publisher to use when considering whether to publish your book or not.
| Send to Twitter Publishing veterans Diane Mancher and Karen Mender are launching Self-Publishing Book Expo, an event that will focus on self-published books and the companies that produce them. SPBE will offer attending authors a place to exhibit and sell their books to the general public–and agents and publishers–as well as offering representatives from self-publishing companies to showcase their services. The event is slated for November.
Mancher, whose publishing PR firm One Potata Productions, Inc. will promote SPBE, said, “Self-publishing is one of the fasting growing segments of the publishing industry, and the time is ripe to have a place where these authors can interact with the public, mingle with their peers, meet representatives of the media who are otherwise unfamiliar with their work, and expose their books to a much broader audience.” Mancher is working with Mender, a former v-p, associate publisher and marketing director at Atria Books, Dell/Delacorte and HarperCollins, to produce and develop the Expo. Mender said SPBE will include panel discussions and lectures on the challenges of self-publishing, and an “Open House” for would-be authors, which will be open to the public and hosted by representatives of self-publishing companies.
The first SPBE will be held in New York City on Saturday, November 7. Mancher and Mender said they hope to hold the event annually. Authors may register at www.selfpubbookexpo.com.
| Send to Twitter It’s finally happening! Blackwell, the UK’s leading academic bookseller, has unveiled the launch of the 2.0 Espresso Book Machine (EBM) at its flagship store, 100 Charing Cross London. It is the first bookshop installation of its kind within the UK, allowing any book to be selected from an inexhaustible network of titles and prints on demand in just 3 minutes from a digital file onsite, online at www.blackwell.co.uk, or uploaded in person from CDs or flash drives.
The new Blackwell EBM, created by On Demand Books (ODB), uses revolutionary technology that allows publishers to offer titles through a novel channel of distribution at point of sale to the customer. It is able to print, bind and trim library-quality paperback books at 112 pages per minute, complete with four-colour covers, identical to factory made copies. More from Webwire Press Release….
| Send to Twitter If you’re weighing the choice between the small selection of Readers available, you’ve probably narrowed it down. For me that choice would be between the Kindle from Amazon the Apple iPhone. I lean toward the iPhone myself.
I came across an interesting tid bid for consideration today as well. Apparently your Kindle can become something akin to a paper weigh should you piss off the Amazon powers that be and loose your account there. This would also mean you no longer had access to your Kindle download purchases. Amazon promises that you never have to worry about not having a copy of all your downloads because they keep a record and access for you there, except it seems when you no longer have an account with them.
Here, you can read the full story for yourself: Amazon Can Ban You From Your Kindle Account Whenever It Likes
| Send to Twitter Recorded at the TED conference. Some of the best free educational videos are found at TED.com. This one is a great presentation given by Elizabeth Gilbert for other authors as she discusses creative genius and the creative writing process.
| Send to Twitter The Goddess in the Office: A Personal Energy Guide for the Spiritual Warrior at Work
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| Send to Twitter The face of the Publishing Industry has change dramatically over the last years, and is still changing in fact. We find ourselves in a time when the hard print medium is losing ground to the virtual medium of the Internet.
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