Category: Publishing Industry
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Emerging Author Spotlight: Adrienne Crezo & Short Story Month 2011
Thanks to the Best Damn Creative Writing Blog, I found out yesterday that May is National Short Story month! Huzzah! Each Wednesday throughout the month of May, I’ll be featuring at least one new short story from an emerging author and one from an established author. Additionally, I am making a commitment to write one…
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Percentage of eReaders vs. Print
Publisher’s Weekly reports that while those who read only print books remains at around 40%, 26% percent of those say they will most likely buy an eReader sometime this year. Certainly print books are not going to disappear, certainly not in our lifetime. I have always found that fear particularly irrational, but I do love…
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PubIt!: Barnes & Noble Plays Catch-up with Amazon’s KDP
At the DFW Writer’s Conference in February 2011, I attended a presentation on Barnes & Noble’s relatively new PubIt! system. PubIt! (yes, the exclamation point is necessary) is Barnes & Noble’s answer to Amazon’s Kindle Digital Publishing (KDP) system, an interface that allows authors and small publishers to publish eBook directly to Amazon.com for the…
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eBook Sales Top Everything.
This is how fast things are changing in publishing. My book Publishing and Marketing Realities of the Emerging Author has only been at the editor’s a week, and already it needs to be updated. Even between drafts, I would have to update information and figures. Last July, Jeff Bezos announced that eBooks sales had outsold…
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Totally Square
A few weeks ago at a fantasy convention, a colleague turned me on to SQUARE. And it is the coolest. thing. ever. Ethan and I have been on the road promoting and selling our books for over three years now. In doing so, we had to get a merchant account, because without one you’re unable…
Christine Rose 