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Monthly Archives: May 2010
I wonder if this was a book promotion ploy.
I wonder if this was all a book promotion ploy on the part of Fergie. Sarah Ferguson, if you haven’t yet heard, will appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show to talk about her recent, um, mishap.
Does John Grisham need another book promotion opportunity?
Does John Grisham need another book promotion opportunity? Maybe not, but that doesn’t mean he turned down a book promotion opportunity when NBC’s “Today Show” offered him one. Grisham appeared on “Today Show” yesterday to promote his new (and his first) children’s book, Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer which is about a 13-year-old who gives legal advice to his friends.
Talk about a book promotion coup!
Talk about a book promotioni coup! Imagine making Oprah.com’s list of favorite women writers. How lucky are Jodi Picoult, Elizabeth Berg, Alice Munro, Toni Morrison, Kathryn Stockett, Anchee Min, Maya Angelou, Amy Bloom, Gaile Parkin, Louise Erdrich, and others?
Facebook has become an integral part of book promotion. But…
If Facebook loses significant numbers of users — and if those who remain limit their communications to their “friends” — then, of course, authors might find themselves spending less time promoting books via Facebook. They might take their book promotion energies elsewhere…say, to radio networks and newspapers…where the book publicity trail has long been blazed, and there’s no danger of wasting energy on an audience that’s tuning out on principle.
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Blogs and book promotion
Blogs have been an integral part of online book promotion campaigns since their inception. Bloggers are more accessible than book reviewers for the average author or publisher; they have more editorial discretion than book reviewers (who have to answer to their editors and account for their use of editorial space); and they’re far more enthusiastic about finding content (Q&A’s, guest columns, etc.) than the average newspaper or magazine editor.
Book promotion…for Google’s benefit?
Will those of us who engage in book promotion be doing so for the benefit of Google in the not-so-distant future? Maybe.