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7 eBook Statistics All Writers and Book Lovers Should See
Ebook studies about market shares and sales are all over the place. But eBook studies about reader habits are a little harder to find. That’s why I was excited to finally see one that talked about… copyright. What is a book “worth” when authors are being taught by Amazon that the way to promote their…
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How Do People Read Nowadays?
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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What All Writers Can Learn from Calvin & Hobbes
It’s widely accepted that Calvin & Hobbes is the best comic strip in the known world. More than anything else, that’s because of its universal appeal. Kids, college students, and adults have all found something unique to treasure in Bill Watterson’s timeless comic strip. I grew up reading Calvin & Hobbes. As I got older…
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Music, Writing, and Art in the Age of the Optional Purchase
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 me. I knew that there was such a thing as “Pandora One,” but, like most…
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A Blog About eBooks, Now Advertising an eBook About eBooks
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 about how building a platform and an audience is crucial to getting anyone to actually…
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Writers Stink at Social Media (And Why That’s Bad if You’re Self-Publishing)
I’ve talked about how bad writers can be at Facebook before. It’s pretty obvious if you just take a look around. There are exceptions to the rule, of course, but in general it seems that us writerly folks tend to not like social media that much, particularly the insta-smile networks of Facebook, Twitter, and their…
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How One Author Makes Facebook Work
Facebook has been something of a Rubik’s Cube for authors. Even if you take a look at some of the most famous authors’ Facebook Pages, you can tell that the teams pulling the strings have a pretty poor understanding of how it all works. In my quest for authors who use Facebook effectively, I first…
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Why All Writers Have to Love Technology
The other day, I got in an argument with my friend over a recent article about what a few start-ups were doing to nonfiction books. Well, “argument” is being generous. More like four exhaustive Facebook posts written by two tired people who have the same opinion about things, but disagree to pass the time. Anyway,…
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Are Commercial eBooks the Only Things You Can Write to Make Money?
Jane Friedman thinks that self-published eBooks are going to have depend on a “readership that consumes books like candy.” The idea is that you should write a lot of stuff. Publish it. Then, you repeat until you make a profit. Essentially, this means the books themselves will be like candy. Sweet, short-lived, instantly gratifying… and…
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Learning Facebook Marketing from 50 Shades of Grey
When I set out to grade five author Facebook Pages, I wasn’t quite sure what I would find. Mostly, I expected a vast treasure trove of disappointment. Mostly, I wasn’t disappointed in discovering that disappointment. Until I took a look at the Facebook Page of E.L. James, author of 50 Shades of Grey. Now, I’m…
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