Social Media And The Book Publishing Industry ? Doom Or Salvation? Social Media has a stronger impact to books than the movable type had, launched six centuries ago. Social Media makes information producible, accessible and spreads it easily, quickly and without barriers of entry. Is Social Media the paradigm shift which will the publishing industry [...]

How to Write Social Media Book Author Profile Pages to Attract Potential Readers If you are a book author who wants potential readers to find you on the internet, you want to be as visible as possible in places that those readers might be. And in almost every social media place that you sign up [...]

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Amazon has unveiled plans to launch its second imprint, AmazonCrossing, to publish English translations of foreign language titles. Although it’s a niche market — “a very small percentage of books are translated from foreign languages into English and sold in the U.S. and UK,” Amazon’s Vice President of Books Jeff Belle acknowledged in an interview [...]

The long awaited book about the first few years of Facebook is almost over. You can pre-order David Kirckpatrick’s The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World for the Kindle here and in hardcover here. In the meantime, Fortune has access to two excerpts from the book, and this [...]

The long awaited book about the first few years of Facebook is almost over. You can pre-order David Kirckpatrick’s The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World for the Kindle here and in hardcover here. In the meantime, Fortune has access to two excerpts from the book, and this [...]

The long awaited book about the first few years of Facebook is almost over. You can pre-order David Kirckpatrick’s The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World for the Kindle here and in hardcover here. In the meantime, Fortune has access to two excerpts from the book, and this [...]

Google’s forthcoming digital bookstore, Google Editions, will launch in June or July of this year, Google’s Manager for Strategic Partner Development Chris Palma told The Wall Street Journal. The service will sell e-books on the web just like Amazon’s Kindle store or Apple’s iBooks. Editions was originally slated for release in the first half of [...]

Editor’s note: The following excerpt is from Mastering The VC Game, a new book by Jeffrey Bussgang that goes on sale Thursday. It tells the backstory of Twitter from the perspective of founder Jack Dorsey, from his early obsession with couriers and his attempts to create a better dispatch system to his “Aha” moment with [...]

Social recommendation service GetGlue has been updated with a new interface and features, including personalized new releases and real-time recommendations. GetGlue’s browser plugin lets you see what items your friends have liked or recommended on partner websites. It also lets you rate topics, books, movies and music to get recommendations for other stuff you might [...]