Sterling Publishing wants some free social media marketing to your Twitter followers, so it’s giving away one Nook Color to a randomly selected person who publishes a special tweet before 11 p.m. ET on February 25th: ["Three Seconds"] focuses on split-second life and death decisions, and the contest asks readers: “What can you do in [...]
How Kindle’s new Public Notes could change the way we read ebooks
Someone else may have already noted this, but it took me four days to realize the game-changing potential of the upcoming Public Notes feature Amazon is bringing to the Kindle. If authors and celebrities take to it the way they’ve taken to Twitter, they could create entirely new marketing angles (bleh), as well as entirely [...]
An overview of Kindle Twitter solutions from The Digital Reader
The Digital Reader has put together a short list of Twitter clients that play well with the Kindle. If you’re a Kindle owner and a tweet-addicted Twitterer, you might find them helpful. “Kindle Twitter client round up” [The Digital Reader] (Photo: nada abdalla)
Booksprung is on Twitter
Because I am a groundbreaking thought leader who pushes the envelope and thinks outside the box, I have set up a Twitter account for Booksprung. Actually, it’s been there for a while, but I just figured out how to use the little box to post tweets. THE FUTURE! SOCIAL MEDIA! FORCED BREVITY! Forced whaa? Oh [...]
Can you use Twitter to sell books?
Everyone who writes or publishes wants to know how to use Twitter as a promotional tool to drive sales, and to that end the British book reading website Lovereading–sort of the ugly UK cousin to Goodreads, only with a smaller membership and more directly tied to big publishing houses–just completed a survey of members to [...]