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Our friend Dan Janal shared this transcript about author protection. You can learn from reading this. Dan Janal on Author Protection from Lies and Scams Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do? I’ve written a book called “Internet Marketing Confidential” to help authors, speakers and coaches avoid the rip [...]

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E-books captured 11% of all book spending last year, up from 7% in 2011, Kulo reported, while e-books accounted for 22% of units in 2012, up from 14% the prior year. In 2010, e-books accounted for only 2% of spending. Despite the gains made by digital, paperback remained the most popular format last year, accounting [...]

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Las Vegas: Best Selling Author Warren Whitlock, publisher of this blog and others has been named a “Forbes top 10 social media power influencer” Whitlock, active online for the last 32 years, best-selling author, speaker and serial entrepreneur in publishing, advertising and marketing consulting and more commented “I am always happy to be acknowledged by these lists. [...]

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E-Book Sales ePublish a Book » Journal » US sees stronger ebook sales, but growth slows Electronic books provided 23 percent of US publishing revenues in 2012 but sizzling growth rates have eased, according to industry figures released Thursday. The Association of American Publishers said ebooks gained ground in all categories — adult fiction and [...]

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Smart authors are looking at new ways to deliver their book. We know about ebooks, but what about apps. Here’s some news today about Ebook App Creation, and information about a case study that you can download free. Ebook App Creation This blog post is an excerpt from a case study that is available as [...]

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Sony has a new interactive infographic that it hopes will help readers discover new books (pictured below). By answering a set of questions about books, readers are shuttled to one of 15 highly popular titles. While the map may help the reluctant reader discover a newer title, or help Sony sell more of each of [...]

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David Mamet and other best selling authors choose to self-publish This year, when Mr. Mamet set out to publish his next one, a novella and two short stories about war, he decided to take a very different path: he will self-publish. When the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author David Mamet released his last book, “The [...]

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I heard about Jamie McGuire and here fight with Amazon. I didn’t know much on the details, so I read the following on a blog post by Kristen Eckstein Often, the facts of these stories are as “big company is the bad guy” as much as I’d like to suppose (I get mad a big [...]

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13 best books list combined Can you build a reading list of the best books from a mathematical equation? “A list of Books” takes best seller list collects dozens of 100 best books lists and combined them with a formula to bring you the best books of all time. You be the judge. Look at this list [...]

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I just read this about #OccupyConan and thought we might learn by discussing it. When we talk about video and new media, we’re usually talking about web series. But I think we would be wrong to ignore the ways traditional television shows and networks are also finding new and interesting ways to connect with their online [...]

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