top 10 tweets to 10th July
@PublishingSpy finds and retweets tweets that seem relevant to the publishing industry. Click on the ow.ly link for the original tweet.
1. If you’re a budding author, the news isn’t good. Publishers don’t want your stuff. Literary agents? They’re too bus… http://ow.ly/15GUBd
2. trying to find a literary agent, it’s becoming very difficult i need some advice on how this is done any help is welcome http://ow.ly/15GQ5s
3. For anybody in publishing: 10 Ways to Take a Bad Author Photo (http://tr.im/r6tY) http://ow.ly/15H0JS
4. collected a bunch of new followers overnight, all from the writing/publishing industry, maybe i’m in the wrong game and should write my book http://ow.ly/15GTIc
5. Literary agents claim to be busy, actually they are busy due to inefficient practices. http://ow.ly/15GZTF
6. I don’t agree with all his opinions on why businesses fail, but his insights re: the state of the publishing industry are intriguing. http://ow.ly/15HgM3
7. Did some research on Literary Agent. Dear God, did that take a long time. I have pages and pages.http://ow.ly/15Hgza
8. Breaking news! Penguin to make 100 staff redundant (10% of total), biggest ‘cull’ so far in publishing: http://bit.ly/ugtjE http://ow.ly/15GZnT
9. Amazon trying to put an Apple squeeze on book publishers. Revolutionized the music industry. Will it work? $AMZN $AAPL http://bit.ly/tXkP http://ow.ly/15HmjX
10. …and #10 had been deleted so we’ll never know!
top 10 tweets to 3rd July
@PublishingSpy finds and retweets tweets that seem relevant to the publishing industry. Click on the ow.ly link for the original tweet.
Here are last week’s 10 most followed tweets.
| 1. Jeff Bezos of Amazon is trying to do to book publishers what Steve Jobs of Apple did to the music industry. http://bit.ly/USTTQ http://ow.ly/15Gh4q |
| 2. Who are some publishers, agents, writers, authors, editors, etc. that you recommend as a “must follow”? Looking for good advice in all areas http://ow.ly/15GmXD |
| 3. feeling very gloomy about the state of the publishing industry. http://ow.ly/15Gqz9 |
| 4. An Open Letter To Kid’s Book Publishers from a Librarian: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6666670.html [very interesting!] http://ow.ly/15GFnG |
| 5. Just recieved a letter from Paramount, they want to put my song Blinded on CD for major publishers, cost me £120. I’m on dole with no money http://ow.ly/15GgR6 |
| 6. There any literary agents on Twitter??? http://ow.ly/15Gi7J |
| 7. Vibe Magazine going out of business, a victim of the internet, but an opportunity for individual publishers http://ow.ly/15Gw9O |
| 8. A blogger tells how he changed his thinking about buying books into becoming a supporter of the publishing industry http://bit.ly/31winu http://ow.ly/15GhuH |
| 9. Had A Great Coaching Seminar On Today With Aspiring Authors and Self Publishers! Pursue Your Dreams! http://ow.ly/15Gijq |
| 10. We are a group recent college grads who want to establish careers in publishing - so we’re making this as real as we can! http://ow.ly/15GmfD |
