Books
DailyLit Begins Syndicating Books Pre-Release
Earlier this week DailyLit announced its first pre-publication deal for House Rules which will be published in 139 installments for $9.95. This marks the site’s first opportunity to syndicate a book before the print release.
DailyLit began with mostly public domain works, syndicating them to readers in snack-sized chucks via email and RSS. Recently, [...]
Guy Kawasaki Likes Me, He Really Likes Me!
Ok, maybe thats a bit dramatic, but Guy and his team were nice enough to add this blog to the Alltop Books listing. I see colleague Joe Wikert is listed as well.
So, how does Alltop select sites for inclusion?
We use a patent-pending, semantic computational algorithm derived from the post-doctoral work of Guy at Stanford. [...]
Looks Like We Are About to Get Bum Rushed by the Age of Conversation
Chris Wilson over at Fresh Peel has put together a very social-media centric marketing blitz for the upcoming Age of Conversation book by Gavin Heaton and Drew McLellan.
Age of Conversation is a self-published work that the authors describe as follows:
In what began as a half dare, the editors, Gavin Heaton and Drew McLellan challenged bloggers [...]
Border’s Face Out Strategy May Hurt Their Web Sales
Ever since Border’s announced that they would be leaving partner Amazon.com to build their own web presence, I have been eagerly watching to see what features they might bake into the new site.
After all, Amazon.com really does it right in so many ways.
Border’s new online storefront will have one benefit that Amazon.com can not offer [...]
Inside the Mind of a Business Book Publicist
Business book publicist Barbara Cave Henricks has a new blog.
On Kindle:
While the purist in me refuses to imagine a world without physical books, I can’t help but think of my children and the entire generation to which they belong, who have grown up in a world not only digital, but instant and on demand. The [...]
