How to counter Amazon: Create a one-World Book Alliance - A global answer to Amazon from Publishing Perspectives.
Links of the week February 27 2012 (09)
Our new feature links to interesting blogs or articles posted online, which will help keep you up to date with what's going on in the book world:
5 March 2012
Amazon, Innovation, and the Rewards of the Free Market from the US Authors' Guild puts forward a strong view about the need to counter Amazon's growing dominance in the bookselling world.
Traitorous Activity: Why a Veteran Publisher Went Digital Ivan R Dee explains why after a lifetime in traditional publishing he's become a digital publisher of essays.
27 February 2012
The new website of the Crime Readers’ Association – a place for crime and thriller fans to keep up with their favourite authors. The CRA is run by the Crime Writers’ Association – the UK organisation for professional crime writers.
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David Nichols in the Independent: 'I'm desperate that the next book shouldn't disappoint people.'
It's death to think about a perceived demographic when you write a novel. With One Day, I just wrote the book that I wanted to write; I didn't think "I might have to expand on this section to appeal to men" or anything like that. I was anxious that it might only make sense to people aged between 38 and 44, who lived in London and had been to university or had certain political and cultural experiences. Thankfully that turned out not to be the case.
The death of chick lit: Can the pink-covered fiction that once ruled bookstores really be on the ropes? Laura Miller ruminates in Salon.
Why Every Entrepreneur Should Self-Publish a Book - a business person's view of self-publishing from James Altrucher in Techcrunch
I’ve published eight books in the past seven years, five with traditional publishers (Wiley, Penguin, HarperCollins), one comic book, and the last two I’ve self-published. In this post I give the specific details of all of my sales numbers and advances with the traditional publishers. Although the jury is still out on my self-published books, “How to be the Luckiest Man Alive” and ”I Was Blind But Now I See” I can tell you these two have already sold more than my five books with traditional publishers, combined.
If you, the entrepreneur, self-publish a book you will stand out, you will make more money, you will kick your competitors right in the XX, and you will look amazingly cool at cocktail parties. I know this because I am seldom cool but at cocktail parties, with my very own comic book, I can basically have sex with anyone in the room. But don’t believe me, it costs you nothing and almost no time to try it yourself.