Publishing Talk

Jon Reed 7th July 20115th October 2020 ebook, Twitter

The Publishing Talk Guide to Twitter

Twitter is a vital place to reach readers online and promote your books – but where do you start? The Publishing Talk Guide to Twitter tells you all you need to know to get started with Twitter and make the most of the medium – whether you’re a publisher, author, aspiring author or other book trade professional. Packed with practical advice, tips and real-life examples throughout, this ebook demystifies Twitter and guides you step-by-step to marketing success.

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Jon Reed 8th June 2011 LBF11, London Book Fair, London Book Tweet, tweetups

Tweeting up at the London Book Fair

It seems a long time since the London Book Fair, doesn’t it? The highlight for me, as ever, was the Publishing Talk / London Book Fair Tweetup. It was bigger than ever this year, with over 100 authors, publishers and other book trade folk mixing and mingling over a well-earned drink after a hard day’s Book Fairing. Here are some images from the night.

Self-Publishing

Jon Reed 5th June 2011

Self-Publishing: How You Can Reduce Costs

By Piotr Kowalczyk on Password Incorrect: The price of a book is what really matters to readers. It’s where self-published

Digital eBooks

Jon Reed 4th June 2011

5 Reasons Why E-Books Aren’t There Yet

By John C Abell on Wired: There are no two ways about it: E-books are here to stay. Unless something

conferences Digital

Alastair Horne 6th May 2011 eBooks, LBF11, London Book Fair, mobile

The future's bright, the future's mobile

In the final part of his report on this year’s London Book Fair Digital Conference, Alastair Horne considers the impact of mobile on the publishing industry.

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Alastair Horne 23rd April 2011 LBF11, London Book Fair

What can other industries teach us about digital?

In Part 1 of his report on the London Book Fair Digital Conference, Alastair Horne discovers what we can learn about digital content and business models from those outside the publishing industry.

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Danuta Kean 19th April 2011 Interns, LBF11, London Book Fair

Are internships the way to get into publishing?

Temps. Remember them? They used to be the people who came in to cover the donkey work jobs no one wanted or no one had time to do. They also used to be the route into publishing for the vast majority – especially women. Not any more. Now budding publishers are expected to work free in long unpaid internships.

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Jon Reed 18th April 2011 LBF11, London Book Fair

Debate: Will publishers soon be irrelevant?

“Authors and readers are all that matter. Publishers will soon be irrelevant.” It was billed as The Great Debate – but has the discussion really moved on since last year?

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Jon Reed 10th April 2011 London Book Fair, London Book Tweet

See you at the London Book Fair!

So are you all set for your three-day mini-break to Earls Court? If you’re at the London Book Fair this week,

Digital

Jon Reed 18th February 2011 Booksquare, Kassia Krozser, TOC, TOC 2011, Tools of Change

Kassia Krozser at TOC 2011

Many of you will know Kassia Krozser’s excellent Booksquare blog. Here she is talking to Mac Slocum at at O’Reilly

Case Studies Writing

Danuta Kean 19th January 201115th August 2021 Julia Crouch, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, writer's block, Writing

How #NaNoWriMo helped Julia Crouch win a three-book deal with Headline

Writers’ block: two words that strike fear into every writer. But for the past 11 years every November a website has come to the rescue. National Novel Writing Month was founded in 1999 by US-based freelance Chris Baty and 20 other writers. Aimed simply at getting words on the page, it sets participants a target of 50,000 words written by the end of the month, and provides forums and exercises aimed at overcoming writer’s block. It has an impressive success rate: of the 165,000 participants in 2009, over 30,000 crossed the 50,000 word line at the end of November.
One of those who participated in 2008 was creative writing graduate Julia Crouch, who had hit a wall. It helped more than she expected: before Christmas the books that came out of NaNoWriMo won her a three book deal with Headline. Her début, the psychological thriller Cuckoo, is published in March. Here she explains how NaNoWriMo helped.

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