Probably not. But the data for sales of my novel, Déjà Vu, which I’ve published on the Kindle, iBooks and Smashwords, point to a sales ratio of about 1000:1. Kindle Sales Déjà Vu unit sales per month, beginning in March, are: 320, 938, 915, 738, 844, 643 and 581. Smashwords (this includes Barnes and Noble, [...]
Over the past week or so, I’ve being making rounds to various blogs. Over at Scott Pack’s place, I’ve been writing about my experiences of publishing Déjà Vu: So I’m looking at this Amanda Hocking headline. Flecks of tea are moving down the screen of my laptop like the raw Matrix. The half-formed idea in [...]
Scott Pack replies to a Guardian piece by Stuart Jeffries that (according to Scott; I haven’t read it) is another ‘why can’t bookshops be like the old days’ article. Among other things, Scott writes: Less than a decade ago it would have been possible to walk into a branch of Waterstone’s, especially some of the [...]
Scott Pack, publisher with The Friday Project (HarperCollins), has a blog on which he provides betting tips, reviews, and snippets of news relating to the publishing industry. His reviews are often detailed. Sometimes they are short. One of his short reviews was read by the author and storm of tea-cup sized proportions has broken out. [...]
If anybody from the digital advertising agency i-level wants to send me – as an upstanding, mixin’-it-up-bloggishly-since 2003 digi-man – a free Sony ebook reader, you are most bloody welcome.
Paul Raven, over at the Velcro City Tourist Board, has tagged me with a meme. Here’s what the meme, which originates here, tells me to do: “To participate, you grab any book, go to page 123, find the fifth sentence, and blog it. Then tag five people.” So, here goes. This is the fifth sentence [...]
It seems as though The Friday Project – a newish, small publisher bent on publishing blog- and web-related content – has been picked up by HarperCollins, ending some (yes, feverish) speculation. HC [HarperCollins] bought TFP’s website, name and author contracts for an undisclosed sum from administrator Panos Eliades, Franklin and Company. TFP will be housed [...]