Roundup of Book Info

Dealing with potential loss of MyBlogLog and Blogger use: a roundup of links to current book matters.  Actually, I'm trying to clear out my "Draft" posts list. Aaargh! Another loss: the ability to "Send to" my blogging account any web page or snippet from one and save it as a Draft post!

As I was saying, I scarcely have time to blog for dealing with issues surrounding blogging! Here are some of the golden eggs I was sitting on, hoping to hatch nice posts:

*  If you are thinking about writing a book, Folio Literary Agency offers a great guide to getting published, written by Jeff Kleinman.

*  If you want to research trends in new books published, by subject, check out Bowker's IndustryStats2009.pdf. Worth noting is the last entry, "OnDemand, Short Run,and Other Unclassified" (read: self-published) with a substantial rise for the last three years reported (2002-2008).

*  When your book is published, the next big hurdle is marketing. Seth Godin tells how in Seth Godin, "10 Bestsellers: Using New Media, New Marketing, and New Thinking to Create 10 Bestselling Books video of his presentation at the O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference.

*  If you are thinking about an e-book, you might want to review Why (and How) Apple Killed the $9.99 Ebook: "The print industry is swirling down the toilet, and apocalypse-era publishers minds' dance with hallucinations of digital salvation via iTunes for print. It's the iPod for books. What Amazon was supposed to deliver, but now maybe never will."

*  And finally, a topic so complicated that I have never tackled it here--the Google Lawsuit and Settlement. The latest I've read from Publishers Weekly:  Justice Department Says It Still Has Problems with Revised Google Settlement. The beat goes on.

If you would like to follow-up any of these leads and write up a summary, you can have a guest post spot here.

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