Hachette Book Group will start selling books straight from tweets, though it can’t be labeled more than an experiment for now: The publisher has partnered with digital distributor Gumroad to sell three gifty print books “for a limited time and in limited quantities” via the books’ authors’ tweets.
The print titles are Amanda Palmer’s The Art of Asking (starting December 11), Chris Hadfield’s You Are Here (starting December 15) and The Onion’s The Onion Magazine: The Iconic Covers that Transformed an Undeserving World (starting December 18). Each book sold will be accompanied by “an exclusive bonus item” — in the case of The Onion’s book, for instance, it’s a set of notecards.
“With so much of our book marketing done socially now, in-stream [company]Twitter[/company] purchasing is a natural next step,” Michael Pietsch, Hachette Book Group CEO, said in a statement.
Here’s an example from another Gumroad partnership that shows what this will look…
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I’m a voracious reader. On average I read about 50–60 books a year (and that number may be conservative). Up until I got my iPad I had a library room in my home overflowing with books. Shortly after I got my iPad I stopped buying paper books and went ebook-only. About two years ago I finished replacing the majority of my paper books with electronic copies and donated most of my paper books. The only ones left were either books that I could not get an electronic copy of, were signed by the author (or had a note from my father in them), or were coffee-table books.
So as a power reader, I wanted to outline how I read these days, and why my Kindle still matters.
Generally speaking, my purchasing strategy is to avoid device lock-in. It’s hard to avoid any sort of lock-in, so I’m…
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The link below is to an article that takes a look at why we miss so many ‘typos’ in our own writing.
For more visit:
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/wuwt-typos/
The link below is to an article reporting on the Goodreads Choice Awards for 2014.
For more visit:
http://ebookfriendly.com/goodreads-choice-awards-2014/
The link below is to an article that looks at what you need to know in order to market your book/ebook on Goodreads.
For more visit:
http://blog.bookbaby.com/2014/11/marketing-your-book-on-goodreads/
The link below is to an article that reports on J.K. Rowling writing more Harry Potter material for release on the Pottermore website, starting from the 12th of December 2014.
For more visit:
http://www.masslive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/12/jk_rowling_to_release_new_harr.html
In the middle of yet another disappointing earnings report Thursday, Barnes & Noble announced that it’s terminating the strategic partnership it formed with Microsoft in 2012. That partnership had combined Barnes & Noble’s Nook and college businesses into a division called Nook Media, into which Microsoft invested $300 million.
Such termination will allow the Company to continue its rationalization of the NOOK Digital business and enhances Barnes & Noble’s operational and strategic flexibility. The termination also relieves Microsoft of any obligation to continue to fund support and other payments set forth in the commercial agreement between the partners.
Barnes & Noble is also buying out Microsoft’s stake in Nook Media.
When the partnership was formed in 2012, the idea was that [company]Microsoft[/company] would help finance Nook’s international expansion and that Nook apps and content would be loaded onto Windows devices, thus ridding Microsoft of…
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