Trendspotting: Author, Author
It’s official: “fairy-tale story” and “self-publishing” can now be used in the same sentence. Exhibit A: English author Kerry Wilkinson, 31, outperformed all other authors on Kindle in the final quarter of 2011 when he sold 250,000 copies of his debut detective novel. This and other success stories are prompting 2012 to be called the [...]
Mar 05, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Marketing, Technology, Trends | Tags: Amazon, Apple, author, e-book, e-publishing, iBooks Author, Inkling Habitat, Kerry Wilkinson, Kindle, Nook, publishing trends, self-publishing, writer | Leave A Comment »
Trendspotting: Novel Expansion
All that end-of-the-year optimism about e-book sales got a hip check when a new study found that 74 percent of bookworms have yet to purchase an e-book, even though the number of book buyers who also purchased an e-book rose 17 percent in 2011. E-book popularity varies greatly by genre, accounting today for 26 percent [...]
Mar 01, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Technology, Trends | Tags: Android, Apple, author, book, digital, digital books, e-books, enhanced books, iPad, iPhone, Kindle Fire, Mac computer, power buyers, publishing, Samsung Galaxy Tab, tablet, technology trends, writer | Leave A Comment »
