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Digital Book World
When you compare the online traffic of a news website against that of a publisher's website, who do you think gets the most visitors? Think The New York Times or Fox News versus HarperCollins or Simon & Schuster. To almost no one's surprise, it's not even close: the news sites get much more traffic. Yet both groups create massive amounts of content that people enjoy reading. So why such a big difference? Put simply, one group understands the power of content.
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Re/code
People get their news from Facebook — a lot of people, it turns out. What that news is, though, depends on whom you follow and what pages you like. It also depends on what the broader Facebook community chooses to talk about. A combination of these elements determines what you see on the right side of your News Feed every time you log in. But how exactly does Facebook decide what to put in the Trending queue?
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GWA
2015 GWA election ballots are due by September 9, 2015. Cast your vote now.
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GWA
Learn why long-time members are attending the Symposium in Pasadena, California. It is not too late to make plans to attend.
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GWA
You can support the GWAF even if you can't be in Pasadena! Make a donation to the Garden Writers Association Foundation and have your name entered to win a laptop computer, digital SLR camera, TV or an iPad! Save time and sign up online before the meeting. Drawings will take place at the Annual Awards Banquet, and you do not need to be present to win.
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GWA
The GWA book fair is an opportunity for members to display their works to other members for book and product reviews. Each participating author who registers is entitled to one-half of a 3-foot by 6-foot table space to display his/her work. The book fair will be open during all exhibit hours. Space is limited, so book fair participants will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.
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GWA
Members planning to participate in the Pasadena symposium should review the Frequently Asked Questions posted on the GWA website to help prepare for the event.
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GWA
Need travel advice from locals? Looking for a roommate? Stay up to date on developments for the 2015 GWA symposium. Join the "GWA Loves L.A. 2015" Facebook page.
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Fortune
The ongoing battle that groups representing authors have been waging against Amazon escalated last week, as Authors United made a formal request to the Department of Justice that it investigate the company for monopolistic practices and anti-competitive behavior. The group has been pushing this case for some time, along with a number of other groups representing authors and publishers, arguing that Amazon controls a giant chunk of the e-book market, and that it has been using this power for evil instead of good.
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Wired
Shannon Mayer great urban fantasy — she hovers just behind George R. R. Martin on Amazon's Kindle Fantasy charts. She's another triumph for self-publishing, but the real beneficiary of the DIY book boom is the publishing industry itself. We talked to Mayer about why.
More engaged authors. Mayer spends an hour every day interacting with fans on Facebook — a big difference from reclusive novelists who might meet readers only at book signings.
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Futurebook
"Direct to consumer" is not about selling books through your Web site.
Rather, it is a philosophy that puts your consumer, the reader, first and foremost in each and every activity that the business undertakes. That might seem straightforward enough, but with decades of complex author, agent and retail agreements piling up — not to mention territorial licensing, franchise deals and the like — readers may have taken a bit of a back seat in publisher corporate strategy.
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Words on Words
An insidious form of piracy is on the rise again, and you may already be a victim.
When Vancouver attorney and author Rebecca Merry Murdock checked Amazon listings for her debut book, she found something strange. The listing for her e-book version was not linked to her author page or the print version of her book. Amazon's support team remedied the problem by linking the e-book to the print version and her author profile.
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Quartz
When, in 2005, the University of Chicago entered into an $81 million renovation of a major library building, one of the primary goals was to ensure that the university's collection of printed books in the social sciences and humanities would remain under one roof.
That goal was achieved six years later. However, it also meant that a good part of the library's print collection, while technically being "under the library roof," was moved "under the ground."
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Digiday
The New York Times has caught the newsletter fever. In the past year, it has launched a dozen of them — it now has a total of 33.
But with everyone seemingly launching a newsletter these days, the Times has to be mindful of the competition for inbox attention. That has meant taking a closer look at what readers are actually interested in.
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The Wayfinder
The revolution in the publishing industry has barely begun. That's the takeaway this week, as a print-on-demand book becomes a No. 1 bestseller and the Big 5 move into Kindle Unlimited.
First, the children's book that should be waking up major publishers in a major way. It's called "The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep," and it was written and self-published by Carl-Johan Ehrlin. If you have kids, you should stop reading this and shoot over to Amazon right now to buy a copy.
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