Judith Marshall » The future of publishing http://judithmarshall.net Husbands May Come and Go but Friends are Forever Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:36:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 B&N Won’t Sell Amazon Published Books http://judithmarshall.net/bn-wont-sell-amazon-published-books/ http://judithmarshall.net/bn-wont-sell-amazon-published-books/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:36:23 +0000 admin http://judithmarshall.net/?p=1570

According to the NY Times, Barnes and Noble has put their foot down when it comes to selling Amazon books in their brick and mortar stores.  Read the entire article here. 

What does this mean for authors?  Will you still consider publishing through CreateSpace?  Would love to hear your thoughts.

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If you’ve been thinking about publishing an ebook, but have been intimidated by the formatting requirements for Kindle, you’re in luck.  The new Kindle Format 8 (KF8)  not only allows for simpler formatting, it has added features like the ability to highlight text,  show text wrapped images, bullet point lists, tables and more.  Here’s a link to the Simplified Formatting Guide.  

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According to Digital Book World, there will be lots of changes — more self-published best sellers; major restructures for large publishing houses; new larger tablet from Amazon and a new smaller, cheaper iPad from Apple.  Read DBW’s top ten predictions here.

May 2012 be a great year for all of us!

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In today’s WSJ, author Darcie Chan shared the details of her journey to success.  We all can learn from her experience.  Read the entire article here.

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First we saw literary agencies adding self-publishing help to their menu of services, now traditional publishers are seeing the value of helping authors digitally publish their books for a fee and a cut of the sales revenue.  The latest convert is Penguin Group.  See more here.

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I just received a wonderful review for “Husbands” from across the pond.  Take a look at Julie Goucher’s blog here and please take a moment to leave a comment.  I love that she totally got what I wanted to communicate in the story.  So gratifying…

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According to Galley Cat, Subtext is a new app that lets readers have Facebook-style discussions around books purchased from Google’s eBookstore.  Check out the video here for how it works.  Very exciting technology.  Now I’m definitely putting an IPad on my Christmas list.

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That’s what Amazon proposed last Wednesday with its new @ author feature which is in beta release.  Imagine as an author, receiving a question via Twitter from a person reading your book at that moment.  Amazing!  Read all about it here. 

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Today, Amazon dropped the price of the basic Kindle to $79, and introduced three new Kindles.  Read about it here.

This means a lot of new Kindles will be sold in the coming months, not to mention how many will be given as gifts for Christmas.  If your book is not available as an e-book, now is the time to make it happen.

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With the surge in e-book sales, agents are all trying to get into the act. Trident Media is the latest agency to offer to distribute e-books for its clients.  Read the full announcement on Publishers Weekly. 

My question is what value can an agent add that would justify paying them a commission on sales?  What do you think? 

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