{"id":7772,"date":"2012-04-20T20:13:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T14:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/?p=7772"},"modified":"2014-12-23T18:32:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T13:02:11","slug":"the-book-marketing-technology-week-in-review-april-14-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/the-book-marketing-technology-week-in-review-april-14-21\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book Marketing Technology Week in Review (April 14 \u2013 21)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Notable blog posts, articles and happenings on the web:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. The London Book Fair was held this week and a fair amount of Twitter activity with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search\/lbf12\">hash tag #lbf12<\/a> was evident. \u00a0Some interesting \u00a0presentations are available online <a href=\"http:\/\/hotkeyblog.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/20\/why-social-media-or-my-lbf-childrens-innovation-zone-presentation-2\/\">such as this one from Hot Key Books<\/a> &#8211; a publisher of YA books.<\/p>\n<p>2. Aggie Villanueva released a new book \u00a0titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Amazon-Categories-Create-Sellers-ebook\/dp\/B007UQY9YA\/?tag=freado0c-20\">Amazon Categories Created Best Sellers<\/a>\u00a0which I <a href=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/book-marketing\/book-review-amazon-categories-create-best-sellers-by-aggie-villanueva\/\">reviewed<\/a> a few days ago. The book went straight to the best seller lists in both its listed categories. Congrats Aggie &#8230; the proof of your system working is demonstrated by the success of your book!<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0Jordan Stratford and his collaborators have managed to get over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/airshipambassador\/wollstonecraft\">2,000 backers and pledges over $70,000 on Kickstarter.com<\/a> for their proposed children&#8217;s book. \u00a0In their words, &#8220;This is a pro-math, pro-science, pro-history and pro-literature adventure novel for and about girls, who use their education to solve problems and catch a jewel thief.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>4. And Mark Coker wrote up a piece for <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2012\/04\/15\/opinion\/coker-book-publishing\/index.html\">CNN defending the agency pricing model<\/a>. Titled, &#8220;A dark day for the future of books&#8221;, the article delves into the recent DOJ case against Apple and five other large book publishers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notable blog posts, articles and happenings on the web: 1. The London Book Fair was held this week and a fair amount of Twitter activity with the hash tag #lbf12 was evident. \u00a0Some interesting \u00a0presentations are available online such as this one from Hot Key Books &#8211; a publisher of YA books. 2. Aggie Villanueva [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,717],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-marketing","category-product-service-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}