The internet is widely used for digital marketing – as a promotional tool, a distribution channel and sometimes as the product itself. But is marketing via social media platforms always a good tactic?
These days, not everyone starts off with a book deal. Some do, but that’s a rarity. What is more likely is for the writers of today to self-publish or have their works moderated online by like-minded communities or to write a blog online. Who says that isn’t getting published, though?
If you want to sell a book that you have written, whether through a publisher or independently, then you will almost certainly need an ISBN. You’ve definitely seen one before, even if you didn’t know what you were looking at. The problem is, with digital books becoming more prevalent in the book market, you don’t… Read more »
Here we go again. Once more, statistics showing that ebook sales have slowed down in the last year have the industry shouting out that the only logical explanation must be that the print format is regaining it’s former glory and momentum as the champion of the written novel. I don’t know how to put this,… Read more »
I thought we could spend the next two blogs discussing this multi-post article by Rob Eagar from Digital Book World, classifying and discussing the four types of authors in the world: Unsuccessful Authors, Successful Authors, Authors Who Play Dead and Dead Authors. There, that simple. The end.
Craig Kanalley – he’s using Twitter right. He even used it to get himself a pretty good job.
The digital revolution has left the publishing industry in a state of flux and has raised a lot of questions about the future of all involved. Specifically, what does the fall of bookstores mean for publishers?
Since Barnes & Noble’s former CEO, William Lynch was dismissed, the Internet has been rife with discussion about the imminent death of the company.
Here at Liquid State, ‘the cloud’ is essential to the way we operate. Our cloud-based digital publishing system is only possible because of the revolutionary technology that is cloud computing for startups. Just a few years ago, we couldn’t have existed.
Finally! The big publishers are starting to realise that to keep up with the times and cater to the expanding reading habits of their audiences, they need to include digital as a balanced part of their strategy.
