Books
Books Go 2.0
Social Networking site Mashable has has assembled a new collection - Books Toolbox: 50 Sites for Book Lovers. Among some familiar sites such as Amazon and LibraryThing, you will find many others that you probably have never heard of. Although many of them simply seem to be clones of each other, there are [...]
Struggles with Google Books
Wiley author Charles Petzold points out some frustrating limitations with Google Books in a recent post on his blog.
This is not a blog entry by an author who thinks that Google Books is evil because it promotes the idea of free books.
This is a blog entry by an author who sees Google Books as [...]
The Making of A Bestseller: A Case Study in The Meme
The 4 Hour Work Week author Tim Ferriss tells the story of his ride to the bestseller list in an article on the Huffington Post. His plan is one that everyone wants to execute, but very few pull off.
“What were the 1-3 biggest wastes of time and money?”
This led me to create a [...]
Google Earth + Books = Almost
Yesterday, Brandon Badger, Product Manager for Google Earth announced the addition of a new Google Books Search layer.
Did you ever wonder what Lewis and Clark said about your hometown as they passed through? What about if any other historical figures wrote about your part of the world? Earlier this year, we announced a first step [...]
From Blogs to Books - Questions from BlogHer
Marketing Director Ellen Gerstein attended the Blog to Book and Back Again session at the recent BlogHer conference and asked me to share my thoughts on some of the questions raised there.
1. Can blog content be put right into a book? Should it?
I’m probably going to answer this one the long way around. With [...]
