Publishing News Roundup Series: Amazon Reduces its Buy in From Publishers
by Maureen Crisp • December 4, 2019 • Follow
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In the traditional publishing world, it may be harder to stock at Amazon going forward.
What does this reduction mean for self-published authors? Will they have more of a chance to showcase their books as less traditional books are stocked, or will the reduction hurt book selling overall?
Promoting Books? Get Reading!
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In Publishing News this week…
Publishers Weekly reports that Amazon is reducing it’s buy in from publishers to make space in its warehouses. Should publishers be concerned? It’s only going into the busiest weeks of the year for sales…
Staying with Amazon, they have launched a new marketplace for teachers resources. Now all those nifty resources that you make for your classroom can be sold online to other teachers.
The Macmillan CEO came out to defend their library embargo to librarians. Publishers Weekly reports librarians wern’t impressed. Read the article and think about how someone in the publishing industry could get it so wrong.
On the other side of the world Sharjah International Book Fair has just wrapped up. TNPS reports that they broke their record and had over 2 million people attend. Meanwhile down the road The Algiers Bookfair, on at the same time, reported declining numbers. They only had just over 1 million. TNPS are doing a fantastic job of showing how many potential readers are out there.
It’s been a busy week around here as another child prepares to spread her wings and fly to the other side of the world. More of my family will be overseas than at home for the next few months. I have swapped writer duties for mother/lifecoach/cheerleader/travel organiser mode. Juggling life has shot my November writing goals out of the water. Oh for a bit of silence I thought so I was interested to read this article about writers and silence that might not be golden. Do you crave silence to write or is it a trek down to the local coffee shop?
Should writers be perfectionists? Kelsey Engen has 10 ways perfectionism kills the writer and 10 ways it doesn’t (Which side of the fence are you on?)
Recently the Guardian had an opinion piece from a crime writer who was taken to task by a concerned citizen about the content of his novels. Writing crime meant he condoned it. Hmmm. Where does the line stop between the writing and the author?
What makes readers give an unknown author a chance? Barbara Probst posed this question to a whole range of reader groups and reported her findings in an interesting article on Jane Friedman’s site. Yes, the book is judged by the cover but that wasn’t all.
Are you setting goals for 2020? (I’m ducking for cover as I can hear the screams that we’ve only just got into November…) Stephen Spatz makes a case for planning your reading goals early. You do read don’t you?
In The Craft Section,
Character descriptions– Avoid the boring stuff- Angela Ackerman- Bookmark
Surprise your reader in every scene– September Fawkes – Bookmark
Identifying your characters fatal flaw– Becca Puglisi- Bookmark
5 Misunderstandings that keep writers from Plotting– Mary Buckham
What really drives your characters– Jim Dempsey
In The Marketing Section,
Cover reveal checklist-Bookbub- Bookmark
Finding competing book titles– Penny Sansevieri- Bookmark
Copywriting formulas– Blogging wizard- Bookmark
To Finish
Penny Sansevieri has a great post on using video for book promotion ideas. It doesn’t have to be hard she says. There are some nifty sites out there who can help put together something fun. Bookmark this article and play with Book Promo for 2020.
Maureen
@craicer
About Maureen Crisp
Maureen Crisp has been writing her weekly publishing roundups for over seven years. She is a traditionally published children's author as well as indie-published. She lives in New Zealand and is heading the team organising the 4th National Conference of Children's Writers and Illustrators. She is currently trying her hand at writing a children’s book series if she can drag herself away from forever tweaking her Mars novel or obsessing over space.