The Writing Biz Meets Pop Culture
I was reading some statistics on declining book sales and saw this tidbit about declining bookstores too.
Peter Applebome of The New York Times was mourning the loss of a local bookstore in his town. He reported some statistics from The American Booksellers Association. Now they are about “1,500 booksellers at 2,500 locations,” but 20 years [...]
If you’re in the forefront of book publishing revolution, you’ll be interested in Scribd, an Internet company that offers you a way to upload a document and charge for it.
This San Francisco company opened for business in 2007. Two years later they have millions of documents being sold by writing entrepreneurs. The big publishing companies [...]
People know that writers write, and they take for granted that we consume quantities of office supplies in the process. What most don’t realize is that writing is a small business that also needs printed materials just like other businesses. Therefore, we writers, and businesses everywhere, are always looking for good printers for our business [...]
The never ending controversy over the pay offered to freelance writers is often played out in forums and on subscription based writers’ email lists. I’ve been in the writing business a long time, and the one unchanging trend I’ve noticed is that writers’ compensation has steadily decreased in the last 20 years. This is true [...]
I love free software because it’s, well, free. All joking aside, there is good freeware to be had for just about any task you may confront. In fact, there’s a lot of writing software in the freeware treasure chest. Here’s one that will help you organize your thoughts and channel your creativity.
The [...]
The first half of the year is over. Here’s what people are buying at the book stores. Here are the top 10 sellers at two different retailers.
Barnes and Noble
1. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (Hardcover)
2. Twilight Saga Collection by Stephenie Meyer (Hardcover)
3. Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark R. Levin [...]
Meet this trio. They are the techniques you use to make your website popular and desirable, or sticky. Visitors will beat a path to your cyber door, and they’ll return again and again. At least, that’s what you hope.
Internet’s Identity
The Internet was created as a free resource for all. Long time users still expect [...]
Websites should have the same attributes as a beautiful woman or handsome hunk: they should be desirable and charismatic as well as possessing the kind of magnetism that makes you stick around. Would you describe your website that way? Sounds kind of like a mission impossible, doesn’t it?
Easier Than You Think
Achieving a website that’s desirable [...]
I had a very nice email the other day from Norman Hicks, CEO of Reader’s Circle. That’s an “all volunteer” operation that connects readers with books. Now that’s my idea of a worthwhile group.
Five Years Strong
Norman asked me to post a link on my websites to introduce others to Reader’s Circle. They were founded in [...]
As a writer, I’m always doing research for one project or another. I love the little nuggets of information I find. I guess most writers are like this, and this probably explains why writers are so good at trivia games.
Here are some interesting facts about population. You can think of these the next time you [...]
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