Calling First Time Writers

Hey Writers who Read this Blog! My book marketing teacher mentioned a publishing company called PUSH. I went on the site, and now I’m really intrigued. When I called self-publishing vanity publishing, someone commented that big publishers NEVER publish first time authors. But PUSH only publishes first time authors! Perhaps that’s exactly what we need: [...]

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Amazon Suing North Carolina – AWESOME

I worked in a library for two years, in college, and so I always find the discussions about secure information and privacy very interesting. Personally, the only reason I wouldn’t want someone to have my reading/book buying history is because I’d have to be embarrassed about how many romance and kids books I read. But [...]

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Book Sales Falling?

According to the AAP (the Association of American Publishers), book sales fell about 1.8% in 2009. Here’s the breakdown of the report: Sales went up in 2009 for the following: Adult hardbound books Paperbound books for children and juveniles E-books Higher education books Sales went down in 2009 for the following: Paperbound books Hardbound books [...]

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Portland Event of the Week 4/10

The Friends of the Library hold periodic sales to get rid of books the library doesn’t want anymore and to raise money for the library and its events. Over the years, the FOTL have probably gotten over $200 out of me – and that’s pretty impressive considering books start at $o.50. But every time I [...]

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Author Marketing Tools

I’ve already shown that I’m a fan of traditional publishing, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think that authors have a responsibility to market their own books. Books are increasingly associated with their authors – to the point that people buy books based on their author’s presence online or in the media. And while publishers [...]

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Twitter? Still Skeptical

I have to admit I’ve been very reluctant to join Twitter. It seems silly to post about everything and anything, in short spurts. As this blog shows, I usually have more than a couple sentences worth of whatever to say. But apparently, I’m wrong to doubt the effectiveness of Twitter  - it’s a great way [...]

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Kids as Acquisitions Editors with the Young Editors Project

Ooligan’s Acquisitions workgroup takes publishing into the classroom with the Young Editors Project (YEP), a fun way for kids to read and evaluate young adult manuscripts that are being considered for publication. The Young Editors Project is just another way to bring publishing into children’s lives. In many of the projects described in Classroom Publishing, [...]

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Some Publishing Predictions

I was reading Booksquare today, and I noticed an old post from Nov. 2009 called Trendwatching 2010, and I wanted to add my two cents (per usual). Here’s a couple predictions about how publishing will evolve in the next couple years or so. 1) E-books will be huge (duh!) and BOTH the Kindle and the [...]

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