23 promotion tips from authors on the Girlfriends Book Club. What works and what doesn’t work.
Authors Bob Mayer and Randy Ingermanson have a dialogue on publishing.
In a different post, Bob Mayers has interesting things to say about the state of publishing.
“I think anyone, author, editor, publisher, bookstore, library, etc that is willing to really change, has every reason to be optimistic. I tell authors it’s actually the best time ever for us.”
On the Five Scribes blog, St. Martin’s Press editor Holly Blanck says she is looking for “all areas of romance, strong commercial women’s fiction, urban fantasy and humor.”
At the Divine Secrets of the Writing Sisterhoods, agent Chelsea Gilmore from Maria Carvainis Agency says she’s looking for women’s fiction, among other genres. She talks about advances being down, too, during an interesting interview.
Agent Katie Kotchman of Don Congdon Associates is seeking pmarket women’s fiction. You can read more about her in this interview by Cnuck Sambuchino.
Bantam editor Tom Dupree, talks about his first editing job and what editors do. Very informative.
From USA Today: “For the third week in a row, more than a third of the top 50 books on USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list sold more e-book copies than print versions.”
Oceanhouse Media, a “major player in the digital book marker for iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) and Android(TM) devices,” crossed the one million paid app downloads on Apple’s App Store.
“It seems hard to believe that just two and a half years ago, the general public had no real concept of an app. Today apps are everywhere,” said Kripalani (founder and president of Oceanhouse Media, Inc.). “When Oceanhouse Media was founded in early 2009, there were about 15,000 apps on the App Store. Today, that number is over 300,000.
Yankee Group Says U.S. E-Book Downloads Will Outpace Paid Mobile App Downloads Through 2013.
Latest forecast predicts U.S. e-book sales will reach nearly $2.7 billion in three years.
The catchphrase “There’s an app for that” may soon be replaced by “There’s an e-book for that.” In a new report, “2011 E-Book Forecast: Get Set for the Next Best-Seller,” Yankee Group predicts U.S. e-book downloads will grow at an 83% CAGR by 2013, while paid mobile app downloads will grow at a 72% CAGR during the same period. U.S. e-book sales will grow from $313 million in 2009 to $2.7 billion by 2013.
Good news about books from the NY Times opinion page.
“Americans spend a larger share of their budgets on books today than they did in 1960. Though book sales have declined slightly in the last 10 years as a share of consumer spending, they have still grown more than 15 percent over the period, after accounting for inflation. And Nooks, Kindles and the like might actually help books gain a wider following by taking the bookstore to the customer.”
