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Main Topics
- Book sales at big stores weren’t good over Christmas.
- What’s up with the Kindle?
- Does it matter that Kindle books outsold print books on Christmas day?
- Why is Amazon releasing the Kindle overseas?
- How can you get free Kindle books even if you don’t have a Kindle?
- Lessons from Seth Harwood’s “rush the Kindle charts” campaign for his short story collection “A Long Way from Disney.”
- Why Amazon book reviews matter.
- “Word of the Year” news from the American Dialect Society
- How to make it easy for people to retweet your stuff.
- 2009 analysis of Quick and Dirty Tips performance (Hint: I’m happy.)
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I’m surprised at the drop in book sales during the holidays (Dec ’09). I bought more hardbacks and paperbacks than I had in past years. I gave two of your books as gifts to my daughter and kept a set for myself.
Great show, Mignon! Thanks for including me.
I really like your recap/summary of everything going on here.
One note is that all Kindle books are, in fact, available to read on any PC computer. No, not on a Mac yet, but if you’d like to download the free PC software, it’s here: http://bit.ly/6d3W5L
Cheers and Happy New Year!
Seth
I should also add this: when going up against the free ebooks on Amazon’s Kindle store, you cannot fight fire with fire: that’s because Amazon won’t let me, as an independent producer of content, price my book at $0.00. The lowest they would let me go was $.99, which is what I did.
To that, some might say –#AmazonFail!
😉
Seth
I bought a ton of used books this holiday season-my local libraries now sell their old used books online, and amazon has a nice selection. I guess those don’t count as regular “sales” but it’s a lot cheaper. (I did buy The Grammar Devotional new though!)
I’m glad that you’re keeping up this podcast, it’s very entertaining.
-Chris
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