NetGalley at BEA: giveaway update & more!

Oh my goodness folks, BookExpo America is just around the  corner! If you’re already a NetGalley member, you probably got our email last week about our BEA plans. We have an exciting update, so I wanted to share the details of our promotion with all you “follow the readers.” “LIKE” NETGALLEY AT BEA & ENTER [...]

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We’re back!

We must apologize for the absence of new posts over the last few months. As you may know if you’re a NetGalley member, your Digital Concierge (me, Lindsey) went on maternity leave earlier than expected in late November, and this blog went on leave right along with me! Luckily we found great help in Sarah, [...]

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Publishers: boost your viral marketing with digital galleys

One of the biggest challenges for publishers is tapping into the web’s inexpensive viral marketing while preventing the loss of sales and content due to theft. Oh, is that word too harsh? Theft? I bring that up because on one side of the coin, publishers don’t want to make their valued readers feel like potential [...]

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Paper or Plastic: Why Not Both?

So, why demonize digital when digital appears to be a really viable part of the solution? And why suggest that any one format will ever be the solution. The way I see it, the only real solution is to have many solutions all working simultaneously to make available a diversity of content, a diversity of distribution alternatives, a diversity of formats and pricing, and even a diversity of features. Oh, and paper books are a part of this many-solution solution.

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The Day It All Changed

OK, sounds dramatic, but trust me, mark down October 19, 2009 as a day to remember. Rarely, in my career have I been “blown away” by a demonstration.  Tonight, “blown away” doesn’t even begin to describe it.  I should have seen it coming, but, I didn’t.  I was completely blindsided.  I was blindsided by the [...]

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Proliferation and Pricing Wars for eReaders and eBooks (#FollowReader Summary)

here is a summary of our #FollowReader “twittersation” from July 9th on Ebook pricing and ereader proliferation. Spurred by that week’s flood of announcements regarding ebooks, ereaders, the pricing of both, and the never ending menace of DRM, this #FollowReader discussion was in a word, LIVELY.

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Kindle Publishing for Blogs: A Double-Edged Sword for Bookish Bloggers?

While bloggers will no doubt enjoy some immediate benefits, they will also be putting Amazon in an even stronger position in online marketplace.

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Free Sony Readers for Book Reviewers

Word has it that a consortium of big publishers are brewing a new strategy for distributing Sony Readers to book reviewers. There are a lot of good reasons for publishers to do this– and some signficant obstacles. What we want to know is, how do reviewers feel about the idea?

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