by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Sep 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
I really hope Oyster has this service for e-books figured out: The app’s design is important, but if the content isn’t there, a service like this won’t work. So the key thing is that Oyster has the books: Over 100,000 in-print titles, plus public-domain titles that...
by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Sep 6, 2013 | Press, publishing
Today while eating lunch, I heard that Dr. Seuss books will soon be available on e-books. They will range in price from $8-$11, which is high for the e-book market, but I have no doubt that they will sell and sell well. Why? Because Dr. Seuss is a book...
by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Aug 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
Barnes and Noble redesigned their storefronts to highlight their own e-reader device. Was it worth it? Nook lost about $55 million on $153 million in sales — scary numbers by themselves. Even scarier was the both device and content sales were down versus the...
by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Aug 27, 2013 | Press, publishing
Anthony Boudain supports a Marilyn Hagerty by publishing her new book. It’s great to see people connecting from the national scene to the local scene. For 27 years, Marilyn Hagerty has been covering the restaurant scene in and around the city of Grand...
by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Aug 27, 2013 | content creation, publishing
I have been on the other side of the process waiting and watching for the book to come to my authors. There is angst and wondering how your words will be transformed and put together. But now working in publishing, I am literally watching books come together....
by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Aug 12, 2013 | content creation
I was recently talking to a client and was told, “I don’t do social media.” I stopped for a second and thought about that. I have been a part of social media since I was in middle school and AIM was the big thing. I understand that if you...
by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Aug 10, 2013 | content creation, publishing
A report on CBS Morning, reported that it isn’t the rise of e-book that has changed book publishing, but rather the rise of audiobooks. Listening to audiobook is no longer something for your grandparents. Instead, audiobooks have become a past time of commuters,...
by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Aug 9, 2013 | content creation, publishing
If you have worked at all in Kindle Direct Publishing, then you know that your work formatting your e-book isn’t finished as soon as you export to epub. Instead, you have to upload your epub file to Kindle Direct Publishing and then you have to wait and see what...
by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Aug 7, 2013 | publishing
It’s hard to read that publishers are giving libraries a hard time in trying to obtain books for the public to read, but the rise of e-books have put publishers and libraries at odds with each other. All of the major publishing companies have different...
by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Jul 29, 2013 | content creation, publishing
With new technology being released everyday, there is also a rise in the need for technical writers. To be able to explain how to use these new technologies and services is a worthwhile and marketable skill. While writers may have dreams of being published...
