Morning Brief — Thursday, July 31 « The Book Publicity Blog

Morning Brief — Thursday, July 31

My iPhone bricked the other day when I tried to update to 2.0 and I tried restoring it about 15 times to no avail. Apparently a lot of people had problems when the 3Gs went on sale and the issue was high server traffic. I did, however, attempt a restoration at 4 a.m. Sunday morning (race day — I don’t usually get up that early just for kicks) but it still didn’t work and I really can’t imagine when server traffic could be any lighter. I text more than talk, so initially I wasn’t too bothered … until the Blackberry broke this morning.

If you see a carrier pigeon, do not be alarmed. It’s probably from me.

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Jennifer Mattern of All Book Marketing posts about how to pick blogs for a blog tour. She also explains what exactly a blog tour is.

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Ed Champion offers up some thoughts about print vs. blog book coverage. GalleyCat weighs in too.

July 31, 2008 - Posted by Yen | Blogs, Miscellaneous, Online Marketing | All Book Marketing, blog tour, Ed Champion's Reluctant Habits, GalleyCat

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Comment by saraphen | August 13, 2008 | Reply

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Fall 2012: I’ve really enjoyed writing about book publicity and meeting (0nline and in person) writers, publicists, editors, agents and others in the publishing industry, but I’ve — reluctantly — come to the conclusion that I just don’t have the time to maintain this blog.

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For some time now, I’ve closely followed a lot of very informative sites about media and about the publishing industry. Since I find myself quite voluble at times about issues that pertain to my job in the publicity department at a large publishing house, I thought I’d set up a book publicity blog. The purpose of this blog is provide tips, primarily, but also information about publishing / marketing trends that will help book publicists — and hopefully others in media and publishing — do our jobs with greater ease and efficiency. Please note that the opinions expressed on this blog are my own, not those of my company.

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