Browsing Tag 'markets'
Just as you would with a print magazine, analyze your potential market before you query. What types of subject does the site cover? How long are the articles or blog posts? How often are different sections of the site updated? Which sections seem to use the most freelance material? And of course, read the writers’ [...]
There is plenty of anecdotal evidence for tablets being used predominantly for entertainment, but mobile analytics firm Flurry has tried to put some hard numbers on the trend, by comparing smartphone and tablet apps usage by category… ‘At a high level, consumers spend more time using tablets for media and entertainment, including Games (67%), Entertainment [...]
Hundreds of thousands of students around the world are already reading on Kindle… Today, we are announcing Whispercast, a free, scalable solution for school and business administrators to centrally manage thousands of Kindles and wirelessly distribute Kindle books as well as their own documents to their users. Organizations can also design bring-your-own-device programs at school [...]
While many Chinese publishers are still reluctant to buy foreign rights, Zhao said — preferring, for example, to translate public domain titles — some books are so popular that Chinese publishers rush to bid for them. One good example is E.L. James’ blockbuster 50 Shades of Grey. A Chinese publisher bought the rights before realizing [...]
A wave of erotic fiction in every shape, size and hue swept the halls of the Frankfurt book fair… in the wake of EL James’s record-breaking success with Fifty Shades of Grey… One of the most talked-about books at the world’s biggest international book fair, which takes places annually in Frankfurt and sees thousands of [...]
Here is this week’s Friday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! Four signs of lazy marketing — and how to fix them (Raven Blog) — “Not everything at your company has to excite the reader. And you don’t have to pretend [...]
Here is this week’s Tuesday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! Amish fiction: Put a bonnet on it (Salon) — “Forget ’50 Shades of Grey’ — Amish fiction is hot, and a woman in a headcover means an instant bestseller.” [...]
Here is this week’s Friday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! 8 Simple Steps To Self-Publishing (Publetariat) — “It might not be as much work as you think. In fact, if you already own a website or blog, you can [...]
Here is this week’s Tuesday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! Advice for Authors: Create A Twitter Profile that Sells (Paula Margulies Communications) — “If you’re an author hoping to use Twitter to sell books, then how you describe yourself [...]
Here is this week’s Tuesday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! The Beginner’s Guide to Creating Landing Page Content that Sticks (Copyblogger) — “You look at the conversion stats on your latest landing page and sigh in disgust… Yeah, some people are [...]
tkHere is this week’s Tuesday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! e-Book Cover Design Awards, June 2012 (The Book Designer) — You may want to just bookmark this post as a source of ideas and inspiration. E-book Market in Germany [...]
Here is this week’s Tuesday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! Best Practices for Advertising on Tablets (Publishing Executive) — “[A]long with the good news heralded by the emergence of the tablet as a viable publishing platform came the bad [...]
Just got wind of another potentially Wordpreneur-juicy Kindle ebook being given away free for who knows how long (or short, more likely, so guess who should be moving quickly). No Kindle necessary! If the full title Writing for Children & Teens: A Crash Course (How to Write, Revise and Publish a Kid’s or Teen Book) doesn’t [...]
I wrote this back in ’07. That’s five years ago, Grasshopper. And nothing’s really changed. The world’s funny that way s0metimes. For your absorption. — EES There are two kinds of freelance writers: Those with paying gigs… …and those who do not. The most common complaint I hear from the non-workers is that the marketplace [...]
Here is this week’s installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! E-Book Prices Get Slashed (Wall Street Journal) — “Nearly two years after book publishers forced a sharp increase in the price of newly released e-books, a new low-price trend is [...]
