Here are a few things that I’ve run across in a day’s catching up on RSS feeds:
- From the Book Marketing Floozy blog: guest blogger Seymour Garte posts on Selling Your Book to Readers — Part II
- As a follow-up to that post, another guest blogger, Michelle Maycock, posts A Bookseller’s Perspective on How to Promote Your Book.
- The Windy Skies blog gives a fascinating look into bookselling in a Mumbai railway station, where the black market vies with legal sales.
- At Web Ink Now, David Meerman Scott interviews an indie fimmaker who is trying to build buzz by pre-releasing the soundtrack album for free download
- Also at Web Ink Now, a graphic and discussion by Zak Nelson on how a more effectively designed print book might work. It looks somewhat like a cross between a comic book and the Talmud.
- Andrew Hammel, at the Germal Joys blog, posts about Consumerism versus “Producerism” in Bookselling, mentioning: the Buchpreisbindung (g) or the ‘fixed book-price regulation.’ It specifies that, for the first 18 months after a book’s release, it may not be sold by any retail outlet for less than the price specified by the publisher.”
- At Romancing the Blog, Lori Devoti’s post Build a better bookstore… suggests several things that would help. I’m pleased and rather surprised to realize that my store is actually doing almost all of them.
- The Both Eyes Boook Blog posts “I Like Big Books and I Cannot Lie”, an audaciously funny parody of Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back.” Someone please record this!
- At Bookseller.com, Horace Bent posts a list of the oddest book titles of the year.
- And finally GalleyCat has a long post with video on “Bringing Sexy Back: The Book Party in the Digital Age.”
That’s all for now. Enjoy!
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