Posts Tagged ‘ author ’

Get it! Godin! Good!

March 30, 2011

In this blog, I predicted a literary minefield. #Seth#Godin set off the first explosive with The Domino Project.  In that blog, written almost nine months ago, I said of the coming changes to the publishing industry, “rather than the writer trying to seek the approval of a few people in the publishing industry, they will [...]


James Patterson on Facebook

December 17, 2010

Along with his personal social networking site (myjamespatterson.com), Patterson released what is called, “the first author-created, crime-solving Facebook game” by Allfacebook.com.  Players partner with detective Alex Cross in To Catch a Killer to solve one of 11 crime scenarios.  Of course, there is a book, and Alex Cross is a character in many of those [...]


On Stephenie Meyer

December 2, 2010

Over the next several weeks, I’ll look at how some of the best-selling authors in America who have a presence on social media and receive a large portion of traffic to their sites from social media use social media to their advantage.  This week, I’ll look at Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight series. First, [...]


Videos on Online Book Marketing

November 5, 2010

Instead of articles, every Friday I’m going to post anywhere from one to three videos about online book marketing. For starters, check out this video on Google Knol.  It’s like Wikipedia, but they rely on experts to provide information to readers.  Of course, if you’re an author of anything other than fiction, you want to [...]


Will E-publishing Lead to a Literary Mine Field?

June 14, 2010

I’m not a publisher, agent, or published author. I’m an aspiring author, who listens to the wisdom of those who have gone before him and pays attention to literary trends. With that said, please do not take this blog as authoritative or having come from first hand experience. Rather, take it as a student of [...]


E-book Piracy and the Value of Literature

June 7, 2010

For this week, I would like to explore the ethical issue of e-book piracy, so please read and respond to this blog with your thinking caps on. Books lose their value due to wear and tear; but it is the e-reader, rather than the e-book, that loses value due to both wear and tear and [...]


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