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Chrishaun Keller joined Erica and X to discuss the below topics:
– Author Earnings Courts Controversy…Again
– Author Claims Book Banned by Publisher
– Copyright Infringement: Dark Hunter vs. Shadowhunters
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Ever wondered why your favourite podcasters (who also happen to be authors) decided to start a podcast? Want to know how they spend their time and if they regularly rub virtual shoulders with the writing elite? Then watch this special uber-podcast and find out!
This week’s special guests:
– Hank Garner (Author Stories Podcast)
– Stephen Campbell (The Author Biz, CrimeFiction.FM and The Taylor Stevens Show)
– Patrick Stemp (To Be Read Podcast)
Writing a novel is an immense undertaking, and before you finish it you think it’s the most daunting thing you’ll ever do. Then you DO finish it, and suddenly you need to figure out how to get people to read it.
Before long you realize you need to learn this strange sorcery called marketing, so you start asking around, reading blog posts, and digesting anything else you think will help. Then you start posting ‘look I wrote a book’ to Facebook, Twitter, and anywhere else you think people might see it.
People throw rotten tomatoes, and you quickly retreat back into your introvert shell. You realize that all the Facebook groups you joined are full of other people like you who are also yelling BUY MY BOOK as loudly as possible.
The method described above is the hunting approach. Your prey are readers, and you are stalking them through the internet wilds. The sad reality is that isn’t very effective. Readers are canny prey. You must get them to come to you. How? You’ll have to
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Patrick Stemp from the To Be Read podcast and Chrishaun Keller joined Erica for this week’s Roundtable Round Up. They discussed the below news items:
– Amazon announces KENPC 2.0
– New York Times Best-Seller List ignores authors 20k+ book sales
– Young Adult finally recognised
– Google’s new “Digital Book” may be digital, but is it a book?
– Steam has an interactive story called Emily is Away
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Welcome to the Roundtable Roundup, our third weekly podcast where we go back to our roots and have brought back the Roundtable aspect. Each Sunday (American time) we’ll invite a guest or two to join us live to discuss the latest news and views from the self-publishing and indie industry.
Topics include:
– Kobo partners with ListenUp to give authors a discount on audiobook production
– According to German Court: sharing your Amazon purchases online is spamming
– A call to bust Amazon ‘monopoly’
– Plagiarism: K-Reports is using Book Report’s source code
