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Canadian Chris Thiessen has created what might be the closest thing to a real book store online at Zoomii.com. What he’s done, near as I can tell, is create an Amazon bookstore, but set it up so you’re seeing the covers on shelves just as you might if you walked into your nearest physical book […]
Writer Mark Hurst, author of Bit Literacy which as he puts it, he ended up self-publishing, has a post over at Good Experience called Secrets of book publishing I wish I had known.
I found the post through Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020 blog in an article called: An Author Shares His Secrets. It’s worth reading both. […]
Most of you will remember I sent a letter to Jeff Bezos as part of my response to SPAN’s decision to back Angela Hoy’s BookLocker suit against the giant etailer.
Yesterday or the day before, an email wandered in in response. Here it is in part:
Hello from Amazon.com.
My name is Peg Anderson of Amazon.com’s Executive Customer […]
Okay, I’ve sent an email, signed a petition and helped spread the word about Booklocker’s suit against Amazon. All those will help, and if I’m willing to back them up by shopping with someone else, I’d really be on track. I’d put off that decision, knowing how easy it is to shop at Amazon. Plus, […]
SPAN, the Small Publishers Association of North America, has publicallty taken a position in favor of Angela Hoy’s BookLocker suit against Amazon for its insistence that small and self-publishers use Amazon-owned BookSurge for printing if they are to receive favorable listing on the online retailers sites. The announcement, titled
Amazon/BookSurge Antitrust Lawsuit Campaign describes how and […]
He’s done it again! Joe Wikert, creator of Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020 Blog has a post called: Amazon Sales Rank and it’s truly helpful.
First it points to a great article called What You Need to Know about Amazon’s Sales Rank by Bill Stephens over at Beneath The Cover. Bill details how Amazon calculates rank then […]
Angela Hoy’s Amazon BookSurge Antitrust Lawsuit Clearinghouse points to an article at Investor’s Business Daily by Doug Tsuruoka called Amazon Deals Have Short Shelf Life.
The gist is many of the retailers who have partnered with the online bookseller are unhappy and are leaving Amazon to start their own etailing websites. The only publisher mentioned […]
The stories of the way Amazon is treating small publishers continue to proliferate. This morning, Angela Hoy’s blog, Amazon BookSurge Antitrust Lawsuit Clearinghouse points to the website of Avotaynu Books
There, in an article titled Do Not Buy Avotaynu Books from Amazon.com, the publisher of Jewish Genealogy, details how Amazon changed its terms (yes, it has […]
If you’ve written a book, you’ve simply got to market it, even if you have a trade publisher. Unless, of course, you’re already a famous writer with a following, a presidential candidate, or lead figure in a major scandal of some sort.
Here are some blogs, in no particular order, about marketing your book:
Book Marketing - […]
A press release wandered in yesterday titled: Australian Book Printer Challenges Amazon.com’s Booksurge for Market Dominance
Although I don’t see anything in the press release that leads me to believe Booktasia is really different than Amazon’s BookSurge, it’s interesting that they at least allude to some of the problems some self-publishers have had with BookSurge, most […]
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