Amazon has told Pocket-lint that it expects Kindle ebook sales to eclipse paperback sales by the end of 2011, and to eclipse combined hardback and paperback sales shortly after that in the US.
“I think we [Amazon] will sell more Kindle books than paperback books in the next year [2011]“, Steve Kessel, the man tasked with [...]
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Amazon says ebook sales to overtake paperbacks by next year
Posted by admin on July 30th, 2010
Shining the Book Promotion Spotlight on Steven Verrier
Posted by admin on July 27th, 2010
Steven Verrier, born in the United States and raised in Canada, has spent much of his adult life living and traveling abroad. Publications include Plan B (Saga Books, 2010), Tough Love, Tender Heart (Saga Books, 2008), Raising a Child to be Bilingual and Bicultural (Hira-Tai Books of Japan), and several short dramatic works (Brooklyn Publishers). [...]
Shining the Book Promotion Spotlight on Claire Cook
Posted by admin on July 23rd, 2010
Claire Cook is the bestselling author of seven novels, including Must Love Dogs, which was adapted into a Warner Bros. movie starring Diane Lane and John Cusack, The Wildwater Walking Club, Life’s a Beach, and her latest, Seven Year Switch. Her reinvention workshops have been featured on The Today Show, and she has been a [...]
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1 Comment »Shining the Book Promotion Spotlight on Maria Lucia
Posted by admin on July 21st, 2010
Born in Havana, Cuba, and having immigrated to the United States in 1960, Maria Lucia possesses a true and in-depth understanding of the power and unlimited potential of evolving and beginning again.
A University of Memphis education graduate and a professional musician and vocalist, Maria moved deeply into the study of music and launched a very [...]
Posted in Guest Interviews Tags: author Maria Lucia, best metaphysical fiction, books, books fiction, Carlos Castaneda, Celestine Prophecy, fantasy, Fantasy/adventure, ghost hunting, heart novel, Inspirational Fiction Books, Liberation: Book One of the Andrusian Chronicles, Maria Lucia, metaphysical Fiction, Narnia, New Age Fiction, New Age Novel, paranormal, planetary service, Pump Up Your Book, reincarnation, Richard Bach, science fiction, soul journeys, spiritual, Spiritual Novel, spiritual writer, Tolkien, UFO, Visionary Fiction, W.J. Goldie, Waking Maya, Warren Goldie 2 Comments »Shining the Book Promotion Spotlight on Sue Provost
Posted by admin on July 19th, 2010
Sue Provost is an active spiritual director, religious education teacher for both children and adults, and author of Where is God in Your Life? Three Retreats in Christian Spirituality. Her vocation in the practice of spiritual direction supports lay men and women, as well as clergy and those in ministry formation, in discernment of God’s [...]
Shining the Book Promotion Spotlight on Katie Salidas
Posted by admin on July 15th, 2010
The youngest of four children, Katie Salidas has always had a desire to entertain. Since early childhood, she’s dreamed up fantastical characters and scribbled them into pages of various journals and notebooks. Taking an interest in vampires at an early age, she devoured every book, featuring those blood sucking creatures, in any genre she could [...]
Shining the Book Promotion Spotlight on L.G. Bradshaw
Posted by admin on July 14th, 2010
L.G. Bradshaw lives in Minnesota. He served in the United States Army and worked in law enforcement for 14 years, witnessing all manner of human depravity, some of which haunts him to this day. Dot to Dot is his first of many novels. He has finished writing two others, and is working on [...]
Posted in Guest Interviews Tags: book promotions, book tour, book your tour, Createspace, Dot to Dot, drug dealing, general literature, homophobia, horror, immigration, L.G. Bradshaw, murder, necrophilia, online book promotion, politics, promote your book, sell your book, serendipity, serial killer, virtual blog tour, virtual book tour, vivisection 1 Comment »Shining the Book Promotion Spotlight on G.F. Skipworth
Posted by admin on July 12th, 2010
G.F. Skipworth has toured much of the world as a concert pianist, symphony/opera conductor, composer, vocalist and opera coach. Along the way, however, he also worked as a speechwriter, in comedy and as an academic author. His formal education includes Whitman College, Johns Hopkins, Harvard and UCLA. As he describes it, one day he sat [...]
Posted in Guest Interviews Tags: 1919, book campaign, book promotions, book publicity, book tour, British Music Halls, Edwardian, fascism, G.F. Skiptworth, historical fiction, Mussolini, online book promotions, promote your book, Rosslare Press, sell your book, suffrage, The Simpering North Dakota Literary Society, virtual blog tour, virtual book tour Comments OffShining the Book Promotion Spotlight on Diana M. Raab
Posted by admin on July 12th, 2010
Diana M. Raab, MFA, RN, has been a medical and self-help writer and poet for the past thirty-five years. In 2003, she earned her MFA in Writing from Spalding University. Diana is the author of eight books, including her recent memoir, Healing With Words: A Writer’s Cancer Journey and her first memoir, Regina’s Closet: Finding [...]
Shining the Book Promotion Spotlight on Soren Paul Petrek
Posted by admin on July 9th, 2010
Soren Paul Petrek is a practicing trial attorney with a passion for studying World War Two. He lived in England and France listening to people’s stories of struggle and sacrifice during the darkest periods of the war. Soren’s debut novel, Cold Lonely Courage was inspired by the true story of a young Belgian [...]
