E-books overtake paper in China
Digital media have overtaken books as the most read media in China, according to a national survey released on Monday. About 58.1 percent of Chinese adults read digitally in 2014, up 8 percent,...
Is the Traditional Publishing Industry Finally Catching Up?
By Mercy Pilkington Only a handful of years ago, self-published authors fought for legitimacy and respect while readers, retailers, and the traditional publishing industry scoffed at the notion that...
Children’s Print Book Sales Buck the Trend
By Jonathan Nowell | At our Nielsen ChildrenÔÇÖs Summit in New York in December, we talked about how childrenÔÇÖs print book sales around the world in the last couple of years have been nothing...
Apple moves Audiobooks to iBooks,
By Roger Fingas Apple's newly released iOS 8.4 beta relocates audiobooks out of the Music app into iBooks, and it adds a separate launcher for them in CarPlay, AppleInsider has discovered. With the...
Amazon.com Swing to Earnings Loss Expected
By Narrative Science Analysts are predicting grim results for Amazon.com when the company releases its first quarter numbers on Thursday, April 23, 2015. They are expecting the company to take a...
Why Twitter is the top tool for IT professionals
by Dee Blick As an IT professional, you can be forgiven for thinking that LinkedIn is the only space to profile-raise online. But consider Twitter. ItÔÇÖs no longer just home to celebrities. Today...
How can I sell more books?
by Chris Day These days is it so easy to get a book printed and to fill a garage with boxes of them, but the one thing that stumps to many self published authors is getting their books from there...
The biggest asset in your business isnÔÇÖt on your balance sheet!
by Chris Day Your biggest asset is not your offices, your processes, your customer base or even your excellent team. Your biggest asset is the Knowledge that resides with both you and the other...
Filament enters its 16th year in publishing
These days, since the pendulum swung away from the traditional 19th century Business of Publishing to a new era in which an author can be found online from anywhere in the world in three clicks of a...
Wendy YorkeÔÇÖs Top 12 Tips for Book Marketing using Social Media
There is an exciting, globally connected world of fast, new online marketing out there, ideally suited for you as writers, to promote and market your newly published books! Marketing has changed...
Why audio content will serve you well
by Viv Oyolu ThereÔÇÖs so much talk about audio and podcasts today! If youÔÇÖre still not thinking about finding the best format to use it, donÔÇÖt despair! I penned a blog last summer ÔÇô 5 Steps...
Speed is the Enemy of Quality!
The number of copies that a book sells is a very accurate way of judging its success, but it is not the only way. How you use the fact that you are now a published author to raise you profile, and...