When it comes to technology solutions, the choices out there are near endless. So, it’s important that your solution should always meet all of your answers for that question.
What Comes First, the Platform or the Book?
Conventional wisdom says that first you build a platform and then you write a book. But what if you want to do it the other way around? Is one way best?
From Book to…Blog? Inspiration for the Aspiring Nonfiction Author
David Krall wanted to write a book about the Brooklyn Dodgers, but had no platform. Defying conventional publishing wisdom, he wrote it anyway. Here’s how.
BEA Believes Book Bloggers Matter, Buys Book Blogger Conference
Today, Reed Exhibitions bought the Book Blogger Convention as a supplement to BookExpo America. Blog on, book lovers, blog on…
Does a Large Online Following Guarantee an Author Readers?
It’s a truism in publishing that the larger an author’s “community” of readers, the better chance of success they have as an author. But it’s no guarantee. By Edward Nawotka It’s a truism in publishing that the larger an author’s “community” of readers — whether developed from a media presence or social networking — the better chance of success they …
The Future of Publishing is “Anywhere, Anytime, Anyhow”
By Daniel Kalder NEW YORK: Founded seven years ago, MarkLogic is the maker of a database for “unstructured data” — which these days consists of 80% of the information on the Internet, including documents, emails, social media posts, tweets, pictures, video, blogs, and research data. Currently growing at an exponential rate, managing this type of information can be time-intensive and …
From Camp to Con: The Book Maven on Conventioneering
There are 1,000 stories in the naked city, errr, at the Tools of Change for Publishing, and this is just one of them
“The Kids Get It, Even If You Don’t”: Transmedia Storytelling in the Classroom
Editorial by Ian Harper MINNEAPOLIS: The National Education Technology Plan in the US has prescribed a wholesale technological transformation for education. Yet, adults — parents and teachers alike — often fear what’s “out there” on the Internet, whether “they” are bullies, predatory stalkers or pornography. This has made educators reluctant to embrace sharing technologies in the classroom. As a result, open …
Authors, Social Media and the Allure of Magical Thinking
Editorial by Daniel Kalder So anyway, I’ve got a great idea. Times are hard for publishers, therefore publicists should write books. No, really: they know what’s hot better than anyone. So they should write — maybe Harry Potter knock — offs like Percy Jackson, or political hate books on the villain of the hour. It doesn’t matter — just write …
Do You Ever Feel Like a Failure at Social Media?
By Edward Nawotka Today’s editorial by Daniel Kalder discusses some of the vagaries of using social media as a writer, in particular, to promote you books. In the piece he suggests, “The best way to use social media is to view them not as a mystical cure for what ails publishing, or a magic sales tool, but rather as another …
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