‘Sales Are Down For Most Authors’ Sales are down for most authors. You don’t see blog posts about it or tweets, but it’s a reality. And the reason is simple: there’s more content out there than ever before. That’s the self-publishing author-turned-publisher Bob Mayer in a blog post at Digital Book World (DBW), The Content… Read More
“A Footprint on the Convention Floor”: BEA’s Author Hub
So Grumpy Cat got more rock-star cheers from the BookCon crowd at BEA than John Green did. Nevertheless, the trade show’s first-ever Author Hub for entrepreneurial authors held its own. And one author managed to sign and give away 500 copies of her book on Saturday. While those of us working on the Hub saw… Read More
Trying To Count the eBooks We've Hatched
In Writing on the Ether at JaneFriedman.com, Porter Anderson takes a look at the chicken-and-egg effects of ebooks’ rising popularity and self-publishing’s hard-to-track results. Read More