I read Publisher’s Weekly every week as part of my job. There’s always a little graph showing the ups and downs of book sales. Sometimes there is good news and overall sales are up. Sometimes sales are down. But almost every week there’s one figure that constantly declines, and it’s been doing so for years….
Tag: ebooks
The Great Debate: Why I Chose to Self-Publish
Okay, people, I am throwing down the gauntlet. After hobnobbing with some incredible authors for the last few years, I have decided to self-publish my manuscripts. For me, this was a hard decision based on a year-long conversation with a friend of mine. See, when I first started to explore what it meant to be…
Reading On the Screen
On my last trip, I did something unthinkable. I didn’t take any books. Print books, that is. I did have a number of ebooks on my tablet, including two that I acquired especially to read on this trip. One I borrowed from the library’s ebook catalog; the other I purchased. My conversion to ebooks has…
THE SALE: Then and Now
Today, my book will be available until… who knows. Unless there’s some internet catastrophe and/or the world ends, my story will be out there indefinitely. On the other hand, every ebook is like that, so in a few years, there will be millions and millions of them available. How do you stand out or get noticed in those circumstances?