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Continue reading →: Find of the Month – July 2006
Librarything.com It is a somewhat quiet day but I thought I would add to the chorus of support for Librarything. At first the idea did not appeal much to me. I logged in and created an account but did not really pursue it. Only when Richard Charkin’s Blog and Joe…
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Continue reading →: Two birds with the one stone
Recently I was contacted by the author of the Tales From The Reading Room blog for an interview. The offering, being couched in a very pleasant e-mail and accompanied by a little ego stroking flattery, I accepted and the results are posted this morning here. But it reminds me too…
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Continue reading →: Google Book Search and the author
Inside Google Book Search has a funny little post today called: A New Chapter For Authors. From that: The book sold above expectations when it was first published in 2002. But three years later, after Foote decided to include it in Book Search, she had a wave of new orders,…
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Continue reading →: Its all about marketing
The more I work in this industry the more one key feature comes to the fore, marketing. People don’t really NEED books. That is a sad reality. There is no reason for 1000 or 20,000 or 2,000,000 people to buy any book. A book will not help them to breathe…
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Continue reading →: How to write . . .
I read a rather good blog called Disillusioned Lefty which today has a post called How To Write. now normally I would run a mile before blogging about bloggers writing about blogging but this post has solid resonance for writers of all shades be they bloggers or not. Go read…
