Konrath & Eisler and Tagging Books

Happy Monday! (Okay, I know that’s a contradiction in terms, but work with me here) *-)



I’m here in my role as publishing industry sponge and thought I’d pass along a couple of links of interest. Sorry I don’t have time to synthesize the gist, you’ll have to dig into them for yourselves:

Konrath & Eisler Take 2:

Below is a follow up post to that 13K mega-post from a week or so ago. Well worth the follow up read.


http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/04/ebooks-and-self-publishing-part-2_03.html


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Tagging Your Books Online:

The below link will be a helpful article for you to read if a) you already have ebooks online and want to learn how to give them more reach or b) you will be putting an e-book online and want to take one step closer to unraveling one small part of the marketing mystery.


For people like me who reel at the thought of marketing, specific and directed posts like this one build my knowledge base up one block at a time:


http://theworstbookever.blogspot.com/2011/04/tagging-your-book-and-ebook-on-amazon.html


And don’t forget today is Make-A-Difference-Monday. Make a difference in someone’s life today!

The Konrath/Eisler Discussion

Unless you've been vacationing on a remote island with no communications links of any sort, you know the digital publishing age keeps turning the publishing world on its ear.  As an offshoot of digital publishing, authors who want to indie publish their work have more opportunities than ever.

Below is a conversation between indie-publisher JA Konrath and Barry Eisler, who made a splash this month when he turned down a $500K offer to go the indie-publishing route.  Here's the link:

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/03/ebooks-and-self-publishing-dialog.html

If you're the least bit interested in publishing your stories, this article is a must read.  Two warnings.  First, this is a LONG post--you'll need probably a good hour and a half to set aside and digest all it contains, but is well worth the time investment.  Also, fair warning, there are a couple occurrences of swear words but just a few.

Much food for thought here, no matter your opinion of the current market.