As indie authors have struggled for discovery in a sea of openly published titles, more and more tools have cropped up to help authors put their content in front of relevant readers. At the same time, various platforms are offering something for readers as well, helping them uncover content with which to engage. Wattpad has made a name for itself through its mobile reading … [Read more...] about “Wattpad Is for Writers and Readers”
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New App Paper Renders Facebook Obsolete
Listen up, food porn posters and cat video fanatics...Facebook has a new app, and it just might be the one you replace the old social media app with on your iPhone. Nine months in the making, the team at Facebook has finally released the long-rumored Paper app. First, it's only available for your iPhone (sorry Galaxy fans), but it looks and behaves a lot like the Facebook … [Read more...] about New App Paper Renders Facebook Obsolete
Social Platform Storyful Bought by NewsCorp
Everything that is great about social media--all cat videos and hilarious memes aside--revolves around the ability to share completely unfiltered information to the entire internet at the click of a button. While ridiculous relationship statuses and Twitter hashtags tend to rule our day to day social activity, no one can argue with the power social media had to push forward the … [Read more...] about Social Platform Storyful Bought by NewsCorp
Indie Publishers Leverage Social Media Participation for Book Discovery
One of the greatest changes to the publishing arena that has come about as part of the recent digital revolution is the access that readers have to authors through social media. It's considered commonplace now for authors to have an online presence that includes fan interaction. Even for self-published authors, the going mentality is that an online presence and a fan base built … [Read more...] about Indie Publishers Leverage Social Media Participation for Book Discovery
Bitstrips Turns Comics into Social Media—Now with Less Anxiety!
Over on NPR's All Tech Considered blog, Nishat Kurwa discusses the recent success of Bitstrips, an app that allows users to make cartoon avatars of themselves and their friends and then insert those characters into their own comic strips. In the beginning, there were just the characters and the backgrounds, but what's interesting about this story is that Bitstrips didn't … [Read more...] about Bitstrips Turns Comics into Social Media—Now with Less Anxiety!
Penguin, Random House Connecting Authors with Readers via Social Media Platform Spreecast
GoodEReader has covered some recent news about social media platforms and the importance of authors establishing themselves online in order to connect with readers, writers, and industry professionals. One of those platforms, Spreecast, has proven itself invaluable to a variety of ways that digital reading fans operate. The first Spreecast hosted by this site was a live … [Read more...] about Penguin, Random House Connecting Authors with Readers via Social Media Platform Spreecast
IndiesUnite4Joshua Campaign Closes with Social Media Celebration
GoodEReader has covered a variety of methods for indie authors to connect through social media to advertise their works and build relationships with other authors and professionals in the publishing industry, as well as stressed the importance of establishing oneself through social media outlets. Recently, we wrote about an equally important way that authors are using social … [Read more...] about IndiesUnite4Joshua Campaign Closes with Social Media Celebration
Indie Authors and Social Media
If there was actually a book titled Indie Author 101—and there are actually a number of great titles that aim to educate self-published authors, some that have been featured on this site—there would be entire chapters devoted to the necessity of social media in terms of how to promote one’s work through the various online sites at authors’ disposal. It’s almost a given that an … [Read more...] about Indie Authors and Social Media
Should e-Readers Embrace Social Media More?
Many e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle and Kobo Touch have embraced social media, but in very different ways. Amazon allows you to share via Twitter and Facebook quotes and passages from the books you are reading. Kobo has developed "Reading Life," which takes this premise a step further and earns you awards and achievements. Kobo even allows you to access Reading Life with … [Read more...] about Should e-Readers Embrace Social Media More?
To Tweet or Not to Tweet…
The great plague of being an indie author with an ebook for sale on one—or all—of the major distribution platforms is finding a way to make one book stand out from the rest. With countless digital titles available on the platforms, both domestic and international, garnering vital promotion and consumer interest is difficult. Fortunately, just as the digital era has made … [Read more...] about To Tweet or Not to Tweet…