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| Blog Name: | View From The Publishing Trenches |
| Url: | http://WaltShiel.com |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | publishing, books |
| Description: | Commentary on all things related to books, publishing, authors, words, classics, marketing, reading, and anything else that strikes the fleeting fancies of publisher/author Walt Shiel. |
| Popularity: | 6 Followers |
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Don’t Abuse Scene Breaks
| This week, my daughter Lisa Shiel (an author, editor, and book designer) posted the following Twitter update:Yes, you can have too many scene breaks in a novel. More is not better. Creating a dizzy... |
Mulling Over Ebooks and Videos
| Two interesting studies and one new iPhone/iPod Touch app surfaced this week. Herewith my musings about them.Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading (BISG)The Book Industry Study Group released th... |
Publishing Forecasts
| I’ve been reading all the hyped-up forecasts from industry experts about where the publishing industry and books in general will be one, ten, or twenty years from now.I tend to take them all with a... |
Do Christmas Kindle Book Sales Hint at Sea Change?
| So, the other day Amazon put out a press release that made a big fuss over the fact that the sales of Kindle books exceeded sales for print books…on Christmas day itself. On just that one day.The p... |
Digital-Only Books Are Cultural Suicide
| I suppose many people would read that headline and consider it heresy. Others probably don’t see a connection between e-books and the survival of a culture.So, bear with me a bit. This is something... |
Big Publishers: Stop Whining!
| I don’t know about you but I am really tired of all the whining, complaining, and teeth-gnashing we’re hearing from the mid-size and big publishers these days on the subject of e-book pricing.If th... |
How Do You Price an E-Book?
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There’s been no shortage of opinions offered on the correct price for an e-book. Everywhere you turn (online, anyway) you find another opinion.Readers think the prices should be low — the lower the... |
Author Lisa Shiel on G Gordon Liddy Show Dec 9th
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Slipdown Mountain Publications LLC author Lisa A Shiel, a prolific author of both fiction and nonfiction, has just been scheduled to appear on the G Gordon Liddy radio show tomorrow (Weds, 9 Dec, 1... |
Need BISAC? Get the Latest!
| The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) just announced the release of the 2009 edition of the BISAC Subject Headings that includes “major revisions to the LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES, MUSIC and NATURE... |
B&N and Sony Just Don’t Get It
| As anyone who has been reading my blog probably knows, I have never been reluctant to criticize Amazon when they show corporate stupidity. But I am also ready to admit when they seem to get it righ... |
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