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Do free ebooks increase book sales?
Recently, several houses including HarperCollins, Random House and St. Martin’s Press have tried giving out free ebooks. The jury seems to be out on whether this move affects sales and if so, by how...
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Morning Brief — Monday, July 14
I saw Hancock this weekend (pretty much what you would expect — fun) but I particularly got a kick out of the fact that Hancock gets a makeover by a PR guy. I’ve never sent an author to jail (nor have...
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EBooks — promotion and reviews
There’s been plenty of talk about eBooks over the past few months (years), but between klunky readers and the half dozen eBook formats, they’ve gotten off to a rocky start. Leave it to Oprah to up the...
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Ebooks and a new social networking site
Hope everyone had a good weekend and Halloween. I have to say, one of the most peculiar experiences of the New York City marathon — which I’ve somehow never noticed in any other race including the...
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Amazon, Kindle and iPhones! Oh, my!
I was scrolling through my New York Times yesterday morning when lo! Amazon releasing a Kindle application for the iPhone? With alacrity I set about downloading said app — a painfully slow process,...
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Talking and tweeting
Yesterday evening I attended the Women’s National Book Association’s Book Marketing on the Web panel. (Recap here.) It was an informative discussion, with the panelists highlighting the importance of...
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The future is (maybe) now
Yesterday, after a 15K race, a hair cut (apparently my cut hair weighs 0.6 pounds, thank you very much) and an unfulfilled trip to Best Buy’s Geek Squad (Apple is looking better and better), I was...
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The ebook question
As a book publicist, I spend a fair amount of time pondering ebooks. Will ebooks really catch on? (For all the talk about ebooks, anecdotally, I’d say pretty much, well, no one actually owns an...
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Morning Brief — Wednesday, April 22
I’m trying not to gripe so much (what can I say — I’m a complainer) so today I’m just linking to a few fun (and informative) posts. Allan Mott from Bookgasm provides an amusing “analysis” of books vs....
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Books vs. reviewers, in pictures
One of a book publicist’s jobs is to get reviews for books. Which is tricky these days, what with the shrinking book sections (accompanied by shrinking staffs). According to an April post on...
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