Chris Webb

Interesting Twitter Strategy from Chelsea Green Publishers

I witnessed an interesting use of Twitter today by  Chelsea Green Publishers who promoted their website and books with a very simple contest. The premise was very straight forward – tweet about a book from their website that you would like to read. The 10th person to tweet a book wins the book tweeted. Free book, [...]

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Pulling the Sword from the Stone: Amazon’s Kindle Books to be Available on Mobile Phones

Did you feel that? That was a tremor in the publishing world. There have been many of them over the past several months, but yesterday’s announcement from Amazon could be especially game changing in my opinion. Amazon announced plans to make its Kindle titles available for a variety of mobile phones. Earlier this year they announced [...]

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My Glamorous Publishing Life

I’ll keep this short. The inspiration for this post comes from yet another a recent NYT article on the demise of Publishing (go ahead and read it – I’ll wait.) When I read the comments of my colleague Ellen Gerstein, I knew I had to throw my two cents in as well. The publishing life described [...]

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