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Building Relationships with Independent Bookstores

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Marketing your book to bookstores—like marketing your book anywhere else—requires research and shoe leather.
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New Serial App Yonder Joins the Wattpad–Webtoon Family

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Yonder will attempt to reach a more diverse audience by serializing multiple genres, including some publishers’ backlist.
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Self-Publishing Sales Collectively Represent a Whole Other Penguin Random House

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Executives from Wattpad Webtoon Studios and Rakuten Kobo discuss the hard-to-measure but growing audience for independently published ebooks and digital serializations.
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Book sales update: October 26, 2022

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Through the first three quarters of 2022, NPD BookScan reports that US print book sales are 5 percent down compared to 2021.
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Notes from 2022 Frankfurt Book Fair

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Frankfurt Book Fair took place in person in Frankfurt, Germany, last week with some programming available online as well.
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The latest literary journal kerfuffle, this time at Hobart

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In late September, Hobart published an interview with Cuban-American writer Alex Perez, which included some controversial statements.
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IngramSpark dramatically improves sales reporting dashboard

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If you rarely check your IngramSpark sales because it’s a huge pain to pull a report and view data, it’s time to rejoice.
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Audible changes its policy on audiobook returns

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On the heels of a major change to its ebook returns policy, Amazon has modified its policy for audiobook returns in Audible.
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20 Reasons Why Everybody Should Write Short Stories

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From appealing to short attention spans to offering no-fuss ways to play in another sandbox, short story writing has many benefits.
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What You Should Know About Writing a Co-Authored Book

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Writing a book with multiple authors requires trust, vulnerability and patience. But done right, group writing has some surprising benefits.
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Writing Through the Impossible

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When we’re dealt life-altering circumstances, how do we stay true to creative ambitions while finding a whole new way of existing?
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How to Avoid Taking Edits Too Personally

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When editorial feedback entails rebuilding a manuscript, one writer struggles with not taking it too personally.
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Using Weather to Convey Mood in Fiction

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Your writing might soar to new heights when you make weather—and the words describing it—an important element in your characters’ lives.
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Why It’s Better to Write About Money, Not for Money

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Along with sex and death, money is a topic with evergreen appeal. So when you write about money, you put the odds of a breakout on your side.
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Links of Interest: October 12, 2022

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Book Industry Research The Global 50 publishing ranking: Every year since 2007, analyst Rüdiger Wischenbart releases an in-depth report that
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Ingram invests in NFTs

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Book wholesaler and distributor Ingram has invested in the NFT ebook company Book.io.
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BookFunnel launches bulk delivery

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BookFunnel has long been a popular service for authors wishing to distribute digital review copies or giveaways to individuals.
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New effort underway to measure self-publishing book sales

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The Big Indie Data Drop is a collaboration between the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), Draft2Digital, K-lytics, and Written Word Media.
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New digital publisher of adult commercial fiction

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The founder of Bookouture, a UK-based digital publisher that was acquired by Hachette UK, has launched Storm Publishing.
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New imprint: Regalo Press

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Regalo Press is a new imprint at Post Hill Press (distributed by Simon & Schuster) that will publish a broad list of fiction and nonfiction.
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Patreon Works for Writers Willing to Hustle

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Successfully building a community of patrons and maintaining it can result in a quality-of-life income boost for authors.
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Publishers Favor (for Now) Instagram and Twitter for Book Promotion

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Canadian publishing professionals discuss how they customize content for social media and engage readers.
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How Kids and Teens Engage with Books

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Driving the children’s/YA market are plot-centric books enriched with images (comics, manga), cross-platform content (Netflix, TikTok) and even old-school author visits.
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Book sales update: October 12, 2022

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Print book sales in the US are holding steady overall, now tracking at 5 percent lower than 2021, according to NPD BookScan.
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Facebook closes Bulletin as Substack powers up recommendations

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To the surprise of no one, Facebook has announced it will close Bulletin, the company's email newsletter experiment, less than two years in.