What’s in a book title? Capitalizing on popular titles has a long pedigree in the publishing industry http://is.gd/15rDP http://ow.ly/ePxH
Controversial
Selected tweets that strike me as intriguing, scurrilous or in some way controversial.
NB What is retweeted here does necessarily not represent my views!
From JULY 2009
Author visits and the (self) importance of being offended http://tr.im/sK1m
PW Morning Report: Richard Nash: “the heck with publishing as we know it”, Harvard on Scribd & Chris Anderson speaks http://bit.ly/kY1NH
Interesting article in Wired UK about the failure of the ‘free’ model in publishing. WSJ only lost 10% traffic whe… http://ow.ly/15GY6E
From JUNE 2009
Book publishers move toward mobile 2 attract teens - http://bit.ly/F7xVg http://ow.ly/15GsXN
RT @mikecane: Do Twitter and Blogs Really Drive Book Sales? http://bit.ly/I4Co4
RT @MikeShatzkin New business models coming for literary agents, dealmaking, advising? What’s their future? http://ti… http://ow.ly/15GsOH
What can a 7-year-old documentary about a rock band teach the publishing industry? http://bit.ly/gWKol (via @vrom… http://ow.ly/15GrhX
Books get the first 20 pages to prove themselves to me. Those with a sexy author photo get 50. I would rock in the publ… http://ow.ly/eR2K
How sad that I end up weighing Publishers Marketplace membership against gym membership: same price per month. #economy http://ow.ly/eSi5
A publisher tweeting about publishers tweeting? Meta-tweeting? http://bit.ly/16ECL http://ow.ly/eSXh
are author-editor tweet-fests the marketing wave of the future? http://ow.ly/dJGI
Of all published action/thriller authors, how many have female literary agents? It seems most agents take on what match… http://ow.ly/dTgq
Check out this literary agent http://cba-ramblings.blogspot.com/ Great quick links on proposals, submission guidelines … http://ow.ly/dShP
“Scribd-S’S deal: Setback for Amazon but win for publishers …” http://tinyurl.com/nxmbhp http://ow.ly/dHRb
A look at how bloggers (and publishers) need to give up 70% of the profits to Amazon for #Kindle store access http://b… http://ow.ly/dDcp
AGENT Guide to Literary Agents: 4 tips on submitting nonfiction from agent Ted Weinstein http://ow.ly/aW7L
Will self-publihing and ebook’s be the death of book,mag,& newspaper publishers? My money unfortunatly says yes. media… http://ow.ly/dldA
@harperstudio Do you think the size of BEA this year was due to a downturn in publishing or an increase in online marke… http://ow.ly/djFh
Perfect never sells. It doesn’t leave any room for anyone to get involved with you… like literary agents Focus on b… http://ow.ly/ddjG
litblogs and bookblogs? http://tinyurl.com/msj34g to me the key difference is cynicism (or lack of) towards the publish… http://ow.ly/cUxW
