BookTour and IndieBound Make Author Events Hyper-Local
BookTour, which provides author-generated pages and a listing of author tour events, has integrated their database with IndieBound. This is an interesting model, which obviously could expand in its...
View ArticleNews Roundup: Amazon Acquires Shelfari, Hyper-Local Author Events, The Myth...
Amazon Acquires Shelfari Amazon is turning its investment in Shelfari, a book-centric social network, into a full acquisition, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Financial details haven’t been...
View ArticleWhat Cookbook Publishers Can Learn from the Music Industry
The similarities between the music and book industries tend to diverge when you examine the smallest possible component of each format: unlike songs, book chapters aren’t usually self contained. But...
View ArticleFive ways to improve publishing conferences
This is part of an ongoing series related to Peter Meyers’ project “Breaking the Page: Transforming Books and the Reading Experience.” We’ll be featuring additional material in the weeks ahead. (Note:...
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