Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-16
- Aug 16, 2009
- by believerspress tweetbot
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- From Chip MacGregor: At ICRS, I had a publisher say to me there were about 20 literary agents doing roughly 90% of the business. #
- RT @MichaelHyatt: RT @lnobles: Gotta love good news. For the first time this year Bookstore sales were up in June. http://is.gd/2fiUC #
- Samantha Ettus interviews Publishing Titans Jane Friedman and Larry Kirshbaum http://tr.im/wleq #
- RT @editorialdept: Our e-zine this month is focused on Christian publishing. http://bit.ly/ltT2H #
- Jane Friedman (former CEO of HarperCollins): "… I'm very bullish on self-publishing today …" http://tr.im/wluj #fb #
- Larry Kirshbaum (fm. CEO TimeWarner books): "We used to look down on [vanity publishing]…now the dividing line….is getting blurrier…" #
- Larry Kirshbaum: "Authors are finding that even if they are published by a big name they still have to do an awful lot of work themselves." #
- Larry Kirshbaum: You have to come with your own publicity ideas/publicist, you have to do marketing, you have to go out and meet bookstores. #
- Larry Kirshbaum: So the idea of the "self published author" is really a fairly broadly accepted concept now. http://tr.im/wlzg #
