One of my favourite sites in the whole wide web, the Onion AV Club, has just announced a new book club that leverages the massive fan collaboration, quirky cultural tastes, and online community.
HarperCollins Saves Trees with Online Catalogues
University Press Says No More Paper (But Still Books)
The University of Michigan Press has announced they are now transitioning to an all eBook list within 24 months.”Within two years, press officials expect well over 50 of the 60-plus monographs that the press publishes each year…”
Filed By: Authors Connecting with Readers
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.
