Book Marketing Stories
Use the Shakespeare System of Ebook Promotion
The growing popularity of ereaders, tablets, smartphones, and sites that sell digital books gives independent book authors a chance to hit the mainstream without a traditional book publishing deal. Matthew Mather’s The Complete Atopia Chronicles was his first novel. Within days of its release at the start of August 2012, it shot to #1 on […]
Love Reading Helps Readers Find New Books
Here’s a new website out of England that helps readers find new books: http://www.lovereading.co.uk. Note what this free website offers: A Literary Fact of the Day . . . The best books are selected by experts each month and then highlighted for readers. All featured books include free opening extracts so readers can try before […]
Joe Queenan on Books
As Joe Queenan noted in a recent Wall Street Journal essay (adapted from his book, One for the Books), My philosophy is simple: Certain things are perfect the way they are. The sky, the Pacific Ocean, procreation and the Goldberg Variations all fit this bill, and so do books. Books are sublimely visceral, emotionally evocative […]