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 publishers [...]
Posted in As Seen On Twitter (#followreader), Publishing Insurgents Unite, tagged #fembook, Bethanne Patrick, bloggers, book reviewers, curation, new models, reader communities, twitter, women writers on November 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last Monday’s news that Publishers Weekly had excluded women from its Top Ten Best Books of 2009, and included only 29 women in its list of top 100 books of the year, met with incredulity, groans and outrage. On Twitter, the conversation quickly morphed into the #fembook hashtag, where participants suggested ways to challenge what some called a pervasive bias against women when it comes to major reviews [...]
Posted in Good Ideas Dept., Publishing Insurgents Unite, Rants and Raves, tagged bloggers, twitter on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve decided to officially make Fridays around here, “Follow the Reader Fridays: Featuring Hot Links and “Overheard on Twitter.” That’s right – we’re curating some bookish link love and a whole lot of twitter just for you, dear readers! It’s going to be fun. Feel free to send us any cool links you’d like us to share, and retweet us with any fabulous tweets you’d like to see in this space. (This week is a little Thursday and Friday-heavy, since we just decided to do this on Thursday.)
Posted in Events, Publishing Insurgents Unite, tagged 140Conf, Dan Mirvish, Jeff Pulver, Kassia Krozser, Kirk Biglione, Mark Jeffrey, Martin Eisenstadt, Maya Bisineer, twitter on October 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The LA 140conf has a lot of emphasis on the glitzier side of content sharing – the entertainment world, but bookish tweeps are there and representing for those of us who like to read.
Posted in As Seen On Twitter (#followreader), Good Ideas Dept., tagged e-books, marketing, reading, twitter on August 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Oh, the #FollowReader Twitchat last week was AWESOME. The topic? What you, as readers, want publishers to know.
There was an incredible turnout with readers and publishers well represented. Ideas were flying around furiously. Among some of the most agreed upon and/or interesting:
Posted in As Seen On Twitter (#followreader), Good Ideas Dept., tagged book clubs, indie bookstores, libraries, reader communities, twitter on August 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last week’s #followreader was really fun (well, for me anyway). The topic was: “Bookish Communities, On and Offline – Where Do You Get Your Fix?” Lots of people tweeted up to let us know about their favorite face-to-face and web-based book clubs, as well as about book-centric social networking sites, libraries, bookstore events, blogs, and websites that they frequent to get their book on.
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