What makes for a proper book review? Reading-based social network Goodreads says reviews that focus on an author’s behavior, rather than a book’s content, don’t have a place on the site — and announced Friday that it is going to start automatically deleting those reviews.
The new guidelines are infuriating some users who say that some authors’ bad behavior online should be a factor in book purchases. And the entire episode highlights the challenges that Goodreads, which was acquired by Amazon (s AMZN) earlier this year, faces as it adds users (CEO Otis Chandler recently announced the site has over 20 million members) and becomes more influential.
Goodreads wants book reviews to be focused on a book’s content, not on an author’s behavior online. Until now, it had moderated reviews that seemed too personal, but those reviews remained on members’ profiles…
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What’s the right price for your self-published ebook? You’ll probably want to stay in the $2.99 to $5.99 range, new data from Kobo’s Writing Life platform suggests — and stay away from $1.99 if you want to maximize sales.
Publishers Weekly reports on Kobo’s self-publishing platform, Writing Life, which launched in June 2012. Mark Lefebvre, Kobo’s director of self-publishing and author relations, tells PW that the $1.99 price point “is dead”:
“Authors most often start at $2.99 ‘and walk the prices up,’ he said, noting, ‘A low price point may be a hook, but it’s the quality of a work that attracts readers, not the price.’ Lefebvre added that $1.99 is dead ‘not just for us, but also, it seems, on other platforms,’ pointing out that $0.99 KWL titles sell twice as many copies as those at $1.99, and that ‘$2.99 sells more than four times more.’ About 80…
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The link below is to an article that looks at 17 ways to find a good book to read – I on the other hand only need two (go to my library and/or the bookshop).
For more visit:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/17-ways-find-good-books-read.html
The link below is to a book review of ‘Joyland,’ by Stephen King.
For more visit:
http://hnn.us/article/153227
The link below is to a book review of ‘Mathew Brady – Portraits of a Nation,’ by Robert Wilson.
For more visit:
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-08-21/entertainment/41442612_1_robert-wilson-civil-war-mathew-brady
The link below is to a book review of ‘Armor and Blood,’ by Dennis E. Showalter.
For more visit:
http://www.historynet.com/book-review-armor-and-blood-by-dennis-e-showalter.htm
The link below is to a book review of ‘A Generous and Merciful Enemy – Life for German Prisoners of War During the American Revolution,’ by Daniel Krebs.
For more visit:
http://www.historynet.com/book-review-a-generous-and-merciful-enemy-by-daniel-krebs.htm
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