Haven't I Read This Before

Do you ever wonder why the big papers report stories about two years late thinking they've found news? I do. This one in the WaPo is about internet marketing for authors and how fragmented books sales are and how book videos are a new thing (ital mine) authors can do and how we need to be our own entrepreneurs. Really? (Cue SNL) Really? We are? We have to do stuff on our own? There's tons of free marketing we can do on line? Who knew?

 

Comments

[Alan Orloff]

I hear they're working on a story about e-readers. It'll be ready in a couple years.

[Leslie]

I read this in the paper this morning and thought the same thing!

[Beth Ciotta]

I just read that article a couple of hours ago. What you said, M.J. ;)

[Douglas Clegg]

This made me laugh. And cry a little. And then it makes me wonder why newspapers -- particularly one as big as the post -- don't keep apace.

It's shocking, I say, this new-fangled thing called the internet! Why, this is nearly revolutionary! Next thing you know, these writers will start doing serials and self-publishing to internet audiences.

Oh, Brave New World!

[Beth Fehlbaum]

I must add: Ditto for me. I read that too and thought, "Wow, that author is a real innovator there..." (not to take anything away from her)-- as someone who completely put together her own book tour and who works daily on maintaining an "internet presence"...
Just... Ditto.

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I published my first novel in 79 and I have so often seen news about the industry years late in the making...things we all know to be true...such as how incredible the Kindle is and how it is going to change everything. For this reason, I did not wait for my publisher to get into ebook publicaton but began down that path of my own. Have placed twenty six novels on ebooks, three or four originals on Kindle, books never in print other than electronic print.
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