On Taming Dinosaurs

It took the cleverness of an entrepreneur by the name of Leonard Riggio to accomplish such a feat. The story of what Riggio did to bring the book-publishing industry to its collective knees would rival Jurassic Park on the big screen.

Publication

What do do after publication

The New Face of Author Book Promotion

Book promotion includes publicity, media attention, online book promotion, and offline book promotion. Which you use is as important as in what sequence. Learn what the best literary agents are doing these days.

Digital Distribution and Marketing of Your Book Part 1

In this first in a series of articles on how you can potentially make money online with your book via digital distribution, we are going to take a look into what formats are best suited for your book or preview along with what tools there are to create these formats cheaply and quickly.

Book Publishing Companies

Book publishing has accelerated as an industry in the last few decades with the steady growth of computer technology and new publishing techniques like digital information systems and the Internet. According to figures released by the Association of American Publishers (AAP), net sales for the entire United States publishing industry are estimated to have increased by 1.3 percent from 2003 to 2004 to a grand total of $23.72 billion. This clearly indicates the publishers or the book publishing companies are reaping the benefits of the trade.

How to Easily Set-Up a Blog to Promote Your Book

Blogs are increasingly becoming a valuable marketing tool for writers. Plus, they are so easy to use and set-up that every writer should have one (especially since they're free). The following article helps authors understand the basics of blogs and includes ideas for using blogs to promote books.

Writing the Synopsis

When an agent or editor responds favorably to your query letter, he or she will probably ask you to submit the first 3-5 chapters of your book along with a synopsis. Writing the synopsis is the tedious but necessary evil. With a non-fiction book, the process differs in that you will have to submit an outline. In other words, you are pitching an idea or set of ideas on how to solve a problem such as how to survive in the desert with Antonio Banderas (Angelina if you're a guy), or how to cook a seven-course dinner with one pot.

E-Book Or Printed Book: What Do You Think?

For the last ten years, I've thought eBooks to be a nuisance. I still do.

Marketing

Many new authors believe that when their manuscript is completed their job is finished. On the contrary, that's when the real work begins.

Fiction Writing Is Obsolete

Are you a fiction writer and never been published? Do you write fiction and self publish your own books? Have you found that fiction is not what the books stores are stocking on their shelves now? If the answer is yes, read on.

How to Write and Publish a Book

To publish a book is to become immortal. Why? Because your name and most importantly, your ideas will live on even when you are no longer physically here on earth.

Animate with Anecdotes: Breathe Life into Your Book!

My mother is a professional storyteller. She makes her listeners laugh and fall in love and cry. She accomplishes it all by sharing anecdotes. Carefully crafted ones, to be sure, but that's what they are.

Judging a Book by Its Cover

You know it when you see it. It's the paper sandwich that looks so yummy you can't pass it up. It demands a second look. A well-designed book cover is no accident.

Secrets of BookExpo America 2006

Here's what I've discovered in perusing the coverage of this year's BookExpo America: all is NOT doom and gloom in the publishing industry!

Skilled Self Publishing Book Marketing Is Vital For Success

Marketing has to start with the book idea your are considering for self publishing. You will need to ask yourself marketing questions like, has it been done before, if so, how well did the previous title or titles sell? How was the marketing done.