Each year we celebrate publishers, agents, authors, and others in the publishing world donating effort to charities, volunteering, and otherwise doing good. If you would like to nominate someone–or yourself–to be included in the article, please let us know. For inspiration, here are publishers doing good in 2008.
Please take our survey! It’s short and sweet and covers three topics: books based on blogs, wining and dining, and publishing pop culture. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=pBCdLIwMQphdFn_2fUUEX6AA_3d_3d For each survey respondent, we will donate to this high-poverty NYC middle school’s classroom library project on DonorsChoose.org.
[This is a guest post by Rich Kelley, a New York–based marketing consultant. Follow him on Twitter here. Thanks, Rich!] Tim Armstrong, AOL’s new CEO, divides internet history into three phases. The first phase was about access—remember dial-up modems and limited bandwidth? The second phase, when browsers and search engines competed for eyeballs, was about…Continue Reading
This article is part of our series on how book reviews are changing. Introduction | The New Review | $$$ | Credibility and the Blog Blurb Question | Bloggers’ Frustrations | Meanwhile, in Consumer Book Reviews “The inventions of paper and the press have put an end to . . . restraints. They have made…Continue Reading
This article is part of our series on how book reviews are changing. Introduction | The New Review | $$$ | Credibility and the Blog Blurb Question | Bloggers’ Frustrations | Meanwhile, in Consumer Book Reviews Whether or not book reviews lead directly to increased sales, the fact is that online book reviewers have deep…Continue Reading
This article is part of our series on how book reviews are changing. Introduction | The New Review | $$$ | Credibility and the Blog Blurb Question | Bloggers’ Frustrations | Meanwhile, in Consumer Book Reviews Despite the advantages of reviewing online, serious book bloggers have to battle through a mass of flimsy and badly…Continue Reading
In 2007, we wrote about a new book publicity trend: ARC giveaway programs, in which publishers provide early copies of books to citizen reviewers through book sites or their own sites. Two years later, these programs have grown quite a bit. Details on a few: BookBrowse.com First Impressions Publisher’s fee: $750/promotion; members pay $30/year. Titles…Continue Reading
