What’s the problem that the new author marketing site created by Mike Shatzkin and Peter Clifton, filedby.com is trying to solve? Other online book community sites (Goodreads, LibraryThing, Indigo’s online community) do the reader to book connecting, and reader to reader connecting well. But FiledBy is proposing one more way to connect—reader to author and vice versa.
Send an Author On a World Tour (For Free!)
Can’t afford to send every author on a multi-city tour to promote a book? If your author has a computer and a webcam, you can do author readings for free by using the streaming video site Justin TV.
Trends to Watch
What do co-donating, perkonomics,brand butlering, tryvertising, eco-generosity, free love, RAK, and (F)rigid no more have in common besides being really sort of cool buzz words? Well these are the trends that the consumer trends firm Trendwatching.com is suggesting for a new generation called the G Generation.
Free Books on Your Phone: TextNovel
If you’re an author looking for readers, a publisher looking for talent, or a booklover looking for a new way to find books and read them, might be worth checking out the beta site textnovel.Looking to EPUB?
For those publishes and authors out there who have thought about making a digital version of their work(s) available you might be interested in having a look at eCub…
Music Sales Increase Thanks to Digital
Mr. Postman, Bring Me a Book
In this age of email, texts and other non-tangible communiques, I doubt I’m alone in finding happiness when something is mailed to my abode that is not a) a bill b) a flyer for some terrifying new delivery place opening in my neighbourhood. My happiness increases 10-fold when that thing is reading material that I’ve been anxiously anticipating.
As of now, I subscribe only to magazines but when I saw Publishers Weekly story on the new subscription model being tried by Open Letter Books, my eyes did that cartoon poppy-outy thing. Subscription to an entire list? How awesome is that.
Keep the Sales Rep, Lose the Paper Waste
Books Make Great Gifts Part Deux
Honest to POD: Random Collection
Starting in January, Random House will be selling new copies of out-of-print books via a new e-commerce website called the Random Collection. The site will start with 750 titles, will be searchable and allow for feedback from booksellers and other customers on suggestions for future titles.
Some, like Joseph Esposito at Publishing Frontier and Mike Shatzkin at IdeaLogical, have suggested that this plan doesn’t work if the goal is brand-extension.
