Tag Archives: books

The Future of eBooks: Werewolf Love Stories, 3 for a Dollar

Posted on May 24, 2013 by

Sometimes, I like to do market research about eBooks by acting like someone looking for deals. I did that the other day and the first challenge, as usual, was finding out where I could actually find eBooks on Amazon. They don’t … Continue reading →

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How Amazon is Trying to Rescue Literary Fiction

Posted on May 9, 2013 by

Who’s going to save literary fiction? Prominent agents have said that big publishers these days are just focused on pushing out blockbuster titles. You know, things that will sell millions. That leaves self-proclaimed “literary authors” that write “literary fiction” biting … Continue reading →

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A Fictional Serial Killer Starts a Blog… Then What?

Posted on May 1, 2013 by

I forget what I was Googling, but I found a very unique press release that caught my eye: “Serial Killer Starts Blog Ahead of 2MCH4YA Book Completion.” Yes, a serial killer featured in the upcoming novel, “taRNished,” now has a blog. The blog … Continue reading →

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Social Media, iPhones, and Memory

Posted on April 20, 2013 by

I had a friend in high school who had garnered a lot of attention after high school. Because we went to college and he did other things that seemed a lot more exciting, like climbing rocks all day. Collectively, those … Continue reading →

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A Video Game or an eBook?

Posted on April 19, 2013 by

You may have heard the term “enhanced” eBook lately. Maybe you’ve heard… from people like me, even… that eBooks are going to have to include more multimedia as people ditch eReaders and go for tablets. Well, the picture to the … Continue reading →

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eBooks, Blogs, and Redefining What It Means to Be an Author

Posted on April 12, 2013 by

I’m accustomed to reading grim things about the future of books. That’s what a lot of this blog is about: how writers can just keep it all going in this day and age. Now, I’m a hardened veteran of indulgent speculation concernign the demise … Continue reading →

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How Do People Read Nowadays?

Posted on March 23, 2013 by

It’s an uncertain descent into darkness when you start thinking about heady questions like the future of books. In my short story, Digitally Remastered Classics, I try to ask a lot of those questions.

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Is KDP Select Worth It? (An Example From a Real Person)

Posted on March 13, 2013 by

Amazon’s KDP Select program has kind of been marketed as a Miracle Grow for Books. It seems that, whenever you Google something about KDP Select, you run into another article boasting about authors who got rich and famous from just using … Continue reading →

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Music, Writing, and Art in the Age of the Optional Purchase

Posted on February 23, 2013 by

In the summer of 2010, when I started my first job, I listened to about six hours of Pandora a day. The ads were an annoyance, but I sat through them because I loved the songs that Pandora found for … Continue reading →

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A Blog About eBooks, Now Advertising an eBook About eBooks

Posted on February 21, 2013 by

Since around October, I’ve been talking a lot about the future of books and the future of eBooks. I’ve made a guide about how writers should blog in a way that gets people to read your stuff. I’ve also talked … Continue reading →

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