Book Marketing Professionals

In the News – Linda Leon’s Favorite Tips, Reads, Free Information and Resource Page

E-book Success Stories – Darcie Chan – indie author sold 700,000 copies

Tips on setting up an e-book launch

Brett Kelly success story from copyblogger – excellent

The future of self publishing

Interesting article on attitudes of book reviewers towards indies

Inspirational article about how indies have changed the literature landscape

Great story -This is a story of how a family saved their home from writing e-book

Tips for writing your first free eBook for Marketing good article

Should you blog to generate leads

Self publishing has become a cult

Can there be a truce between indies and traditionalist, article has different thought

Good Forbes article on what publishers need to do in the era of self publishing

Trends that will continue to dethrone the trad pub. industry

Impact indies are having on e-book pricing

Good story on what trad pub. are doing to keep their grip on market against indies

What Amazon opening Kindle market in China?

Good article on self publishing with Apple i-books

Hybrid authors? Can their be peace between indies and trad pubs? Here’s a thought

Very good article on the power of cover design

Gallycat indie news for May

How effectively not to sell your book by Rachel Thompson

Did you hear about World of Fan Fiction Amazon’s new fan fiction venture this is amazing and so intuitive – Motley Crew

Interesting Reddit thread on Bitcom a new digital currency never heard of it think you should read – wave of the future

Very good article in Huff Post giving indies a thumbs up in traditional news for a change

Lulu partners with Book Lamp to give indie author’s real access to industry tools

Good info on more thing offered on Pinterest

New self publishing concept called Learn Pub this was an interesting article and a concept I did not know about 

 Upstream Color – Indie author merges book with online movie inspirational story in Media Bistro

NA  (new adult) category the new thing, publishers still behind

So inspiration, mother becomes children’s author and gives talk at library

Best selling self-published science fiction for May – Media Bistro

Who knew? Pinterest stressing mothers out – Huffington Post

Six limitations for Pinterest brands

Pinterest makes mobile apps more social

Loved this story, indie author e-book  got bad review from traditional industry, public loved it and he’s making millions with Wool

When self publishers take over what will publishers do – Forbes article

More from Indie lawsuit against Author Solutions

Here is an interesting author promotion site worth checking

Indies Sue Penguin and Author Solutions

Is Indie Publishing Just Another Gold Rush interesting thoughts

Using press releases for e-book marketing good tips

Good Article on Self Publishing Success

Judge decides e-books cannot be resold

Great Pinning Tips From Entrepreneur

 Optimization Tips and Trends

Downton Abby Book Marketing Tips

Cool Pinterest Tools

Analytics tools from Pinterest

Excellent writing pointers 

Just what I needed for my pinterest journey 

Twitter networking tips from Media Bistro

Very good points for selling more indie books from Media Bistro

What successful people do before breakfast, and I so agree

New tool to help indies books get found what do you think? http://mickrooney.blogspot.com/2012/07/novelscribe-launches-search-tool-for.html

Marketing Warrior Forum – Kindle Sling Shot http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-special-offers-forum/635526-rave-reviews-incredible-never-revealed-kindle-book-marketing-system.html

Thought this site was set up nice for indies http://www.lindsayburoker.com/ebook-writing/self-publishing-podcasts-and-interviews/

Tips on being authentic online http://www.coffeekicks.com/discovering-the-authentic-online-you

Indie success story from Seoul http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/n_feature/2012/07/30/31/4901000000AEN20120730008700320F.HTML

Reality check for self pubs http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120729/arts/arts3.html

Encouraging Article for indies http://blog.smashwords.com/2012/07/author-r-l-mathewson-on-some-of-secrets.html

How to become your own publisher http://bostinno.com/channels/become-your-own-publisher-how-to-create-your-own-ebooks/

Fast Pencil links with Barnes and Noble http://thenextweb.com/media/2012/07/26/self-publishing-platform-fastpencil-inks-partnership-with-barnes-noble/?awesm=tnw.to_d2SK

Why authors should care that Penguin bought Authorhouse http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2012/08/why-self-publishers-should-care-that-penguin-bought-author-solutions229.html

Steps to publishing on i books

http://5by5.tv/mpu/112

Rachel Thompson

How to find targeted readers

http://www.business2community.com/content-marketing/how-do-we-find-targeted-readers-5-top-tips-0334797

Fivver Book Launch

http://fiverr.com/kmoehr/buy-amazon-book-post-review-on-your-amazon-page-plus-add-it-to-3-high-quality-blogs

Ways to syndicate your blog

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/10-ways-to-syndicate-your-online-writing_b59120

Blurb ebooks for i pads http://www.marketwatch.com/story/blurb-enables-adobe-indesign-users-to-design-ebooks-for-the-ipad-2012-07-17