This week in publishing (July 25 to July 31)
Posted By Sue Collier on July 31, 2011
Here’s some of what’s happening in publishing right now:
From A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing: Thinking Global
I’ve touched on this before, but due to recent news I feel it needs to be addressed as its own blog post. The recent news is that Amazon is launching Kindle in India early next year. This comes on the heels of Amazon’s Kindle launch in Germany a few months ago.
From Self-Publishing Resources via Networked Blogs: How Authors Can Benefit From Article Marketing
If you are an author wishing to increase your readership, article marketing can send highly targeted traffic your way. Everyone wants free traffic, but in order to get it through article marketing, you need to write articles. What do you write about?
From Publitariat: An Open Letter to Agents
I wrote a very long blog post last night. In fact, I’m not done writing it. It was so long, I’ve split it into two. This half is still pretty darned long. This is the less technical half, the shorter half (gnn, yes, really, sorry!) and it’s the half that I’m going to address to agents.
From Publishers Weekly: ‘La Times’ Cuts Review Freelancers
In a move as significant for its breadth as its implications for the future of book coverage, the Los Angeles Times book review laid off all of its freelance book reviewers and columnists on July 21.
From Peter Shankman: The Dawn of the New HARO
When HARO was acquired by Vocus in June of 2010, I promised that there’d be no changes to the HARO – It’d still be free, it’d still do everything we told you it would do, and that when we did have changes, they’d benefit you, and you’d hear it here first.
From The Book Designer: The Subsidy Author’s Bill of Rights
The problem is, we don’t need many of the big subsidy publishers we already have. And I include all those subsidy presses that have sprung up in the last year like the spawn in Alien taking root inside the body of a regular publishing company.
From TeleRead: Amazon Launches Submission Page for Kindle Single Program
Ever since Amazon launched its Kindle Singles program back in January, writers and organizations have been able to submit content for consideration. Amazon downplayed this though, offering only an email address and a suggestion that “serious writers, thinkers, scientists, business leaders, historians, politicians and publishers” submit. This week Amazon opened up a little and launched a submissions page that provides more details of its submission policy, and in the process turns the program into something resembling a disassembled magazine or journal.
From Trashionista: BOOKISH TREATS: A dress made of books!
Here’s a rather unique kind of party dress! Okay, so I’m not entirely certain of how wearable this actually is, but doesn’t it look amazing? When a friend alerted me to this ‘book dress’ on Tumblr, I couldn’t help but look. And want it. Really, really want it.
From HUFFPOST Books: The Power and SEO Behind Blog Commenting
For the past five or so years, we’ve organized teams to support an author’s efforts to increase the SEO of his or her website. We’ve done this a number of ways, but the biggest and most powerful was — and is — blog commenting.
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