Online book promotion
Social media guru Chris Brogan, who’s currently working on a new book, Trust Agents, posts about how to promote books online, including blogging and holding online events.
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And if you are blogging / considering blogging, Copyblogger lists nine successful blogging tips, including some you might not expect, like how to get a good reception out of a negative blog post (negative as in “What *not* to do when …”)
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Why use the microblogging site Twitter? marketingKACKZ lists some reasons why, including being able to follow news stories and blog posts. (In that sense Twitter is a little like an RSS reader.)
Morning Brief — Monday, October 20
The New York Observer reports that Titlepage, Daniel Menaker’s web-based author interview program, is on hiatus (pending new sources of funding).
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Ed Champion is also suspending interviews on The Bat Segundo Show, for now, although he hopes to get his podcast rolling again in the new year.
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The Media Mob reports, via Politico, that CNN’s Glenn Beck is heading to the Fox News Channel.
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The New Yorker business reporter James Surowiecki will now also be writing (about business, markets and the economy) for the magazine’s The Balance Sheet blog, according to MediaBistro.
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As all book publicists know, fiction can be tough to promote. Build Buzz lists five tips for promoting novels.
