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, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘reader communities’
We’re back!
Posted in NetGalley, Reader Market Research, tagged bloggers, book reviewers, e-galleys, galleys, iPhone, Kindle, reader communities, Sony Reader on March 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »
NetGalley BEA Buzz Schedule!
Posted in Events, NetGalley, tagged BEA, Book Expo, book reviewers, e-galleys, galleys, marketing, publicist, reader communities on May 3, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The NetGalley BEA Buzz Schedule!
#FollowReader: One Book, One Twitter (#1b1t)
Posted in As Seen On Twitter (#followreader), Profiles in Convergence, tagged #1b1t, book clubs, crowdsourcing, Jeff Howe, reader communities, twitter on March 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“Let’s love one book together, our actual geographical location be damned.” ~Jeff Howe (aka @crowdsourcing) Dear fellow FollowReader-ers, We have found a bookish soul mate. His name is Jeff Howe and he’s our guest on #FollowReader today. Jeff is a contributing editor at Wired Magazine, and coiner of the phrase and author of the book [...]
Building Reader Communities: Jesse McDougall
Posted in Profiles in Convergence, Publishing Insurgents Unite, tagged #followreader, marketing, reader communities on March 23, 2010 | 5 Comments »
As the digital landscape evolves into subject areas with their own distinctive topographies and constituencies, some publishers have begun developing their own online “reader communities,” as a part of their long term marketing strategy for their books, authors and imprints. One trailblazer in this area is social media consultant and web programmer Jesse McDougall, who I first met at O’Reilly’s Tools of [...]
Building Reader Communities – Today on #FollowReader
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged #followreader, reader communities on February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been noticing that “reader communities” keeps getting bigger on the tag cloud for this blog. We’re talking about them all the time - along with a handful of other book blogs – and yet, I wonder if everyone could agree on what reader communities are, and how they work. Moderating a panel on how publishers are builiding reader communities at the Digital Book World conference [...]
The Book Club Renaissance
Posted in Reader Market Research, thoughts and prognostications, tagged book clubs, reader communities, reading on February 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I was speaking with a publisher yesterday who is all excited about plans to include book club guides in many of their forthcoming books. Yes, book club guides sound like a nice idea, but the excitement she was expressing over the prospect kind of threw me for a loop. Reading guides? Surely this is not [...]
It’s Welcome Harlequin Week at NetGalley!
Posted in As Seen On Twitter (#followreader), Events, NetGalley, tagged big publishers, bloggers, book reviewers, e-galleys, galleys, Harlequin, reader communities, twitter on December 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We interrupt this public service blog to bring you an update about its sponsor: NetGalley. As you may have heard through twitter or my e-newsletter (not signed up?), we’re in the middle of a special theme week at NetGalley! Welcome Harlequin Week! We’re so excited to announce that Harlequin Books has joined the list of [...]
