Angry Villagers Burn Books: E-book Zealots Versus Sentimental Booklovers

Earlier this week, Computerworld Blog posted an article entitled “Clueless book publishers miss huge opportunity,” which adamantly predicts that the growing convenience of e-books and development of e-reader technology like Kindle and the Sony Reader will soon render physical books obsolete. Undoubtedly, e-books and e-readers have opened new areas of publishing and marketing for all [...]

November’s Online Book Marketing Resources: AuthorTree Selections for Authors

After searching the Internet for book marketing sites and reviewing the monthly submissions to our Web Resource Competition, the AuthorTreeHouse bloggers have finally made their selections: Book Glutton SmashWords NaNoWriMo Rainbow Authors BNStudios Book Glutton: A better way to read online, Book Glutton’s mission is to offer book that are different, engaging, intelligent and digital. [...]

Words of Belief Launches Holiday Story Writing Contest: Fiction & Nonfiction Submissions

Author Solutions Inc. recently launch a Christian self-publishing imprint named Words of Belief, which opened its first annual holiday story writing contest on Monday, October 6, 2008.   Writers can submit up to three entries of both fiction and nonfiction for free. The only requirement is that you register with Words of Belief (which literally [...]

Profit Prophecies: Preparing & Predicting Your Future Royalties

Unfortunately, there aren’t any fortunetellers or crystal balls that can accurately predict the success of your book in the publishing marketplace, which can make your publishing decision all the scarier.   No author wants to gamble with their writing career, nor invent a large budget in promotional campaigns that may or may not work. Not [...]