{"id":7863,"date":"2012-04-28T23:15:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T17:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/?p=7863"},"modified":"2014-12-23T18:47:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T13:17:22","slug":"the-book-marketing-technology-week-in-review-april-21-to-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/the-book-marketing-technology-week-in-review-april-21-to-28\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book Marketing Technology Week in Review April 21 to 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Notable blog posts, articles and happenings on the web:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beverly Akerman has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/arts\/books\/how-to-become-an-e-book-sensation-seriously\/article2415826\/\">written an inspiring and instructive article<\/a> about how to become an ebook sensation in the Globe and Mail.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Scott Turow, president of the Author&#8217;s Guild went on CBC News and discussed Amazon\u2019s strategy of selling bestselling e-books at a loss to tie-up a 90% share of the e-book market. This 8 minute video is worth watching to get a handle on the kind of threat that Amazon poses to the future of the publishing industry.<\/li>\n<li>Chris Robley<a href=\"http:\/\/workflowwriting.com\/662432\/pinterest-for-authors-how-to-promote-your-writing-on-the-fastest-growing-website-ever.php\"> wrote a great blog post<\/a> providing tips to authors about using Pinterest to effectively market their books.<\/li>\n<li>Steve Piacante <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marketingtipsforauthors.com\/2012\/04\/make-your-mark-at-book-industry-trade.html\">recounted his experience spending $2,000 <\/a>at Book Expo America (does not offer information about the results of the investment though)<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Lin Lacombe has done a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookdesigner.com\/2012\/04\/authors-how-to-be-a-great-radio-interview\/\">useful guest piece on Joel Friedlander&#8217;s blog<\/a> about how to shine if you ever get a chance to be on a radio interview. Her ideas would work well in a podcast interview situation also.<\/li>\n<li>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freado.com\/hungergames\"> Hunger Games Fan Festival<\/a> entered the last week and is scheduled to end on April 30th.<\/li>\n<li>The number of subscribed authors on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookbuzzr.com\/plans.php\">BookBuzzr<\/a> reached 8,000!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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: Beverly Akerman has written an inspiring and instructive article about how to become an ebook sensation in the Globe and Mail. Scott Turow, president of the Author&#8217;s Guild went on CBC News and discussed Amazon\u2019s strategy of selling bestselling e-books at a loss to tie-up a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863","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=7863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}