TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » social media http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 29 Aug 2014 02:54:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.4 Morning Roundup: Same-day delivery doesn’t best bookstores. If we were Patterson http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-roundup-day-delivery-doesnt-best-bookstores-patterson/ http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-roundup-day-delivery-doesnt-best-bookstores-patterson/#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2014 13:00:45 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=117035 Is Social Media to Blame for the Increase in Graphic Images in the Media? (Media Shift) Social media platforms are the Wild West of publication. Journalists and traditional news publishers are no longer the primary information “gatekeepers” of public discourse; neither are they able to impose their professional publication standards and ethics on social media […]

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Why coolness for writers is utterly beneath contempt http://www.teleread.com/writing/coolness-writers-utterly-beneath-contempt/ http://www.teleread.com/writing/coolness-writers-utterly-beneath-contempt/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:33:18 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=116027 ShortList Magazine, a free giveaway glossy from the land of Cool Britannia which “has the biggest circulation of any men’s lifestyle magazine in Britain,” has shared with us its guide to “The 50 Coolest Authors of All Time.”  It begins: “Writing a runaway literary hit is incredibly hard, and doing it with aching volumes of […]

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Morning Roundup: Kobo giving $5 for library referrals. Agony and ecstasy of social media http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-roundup-kobo-giving-5-library-referrals-agony-ecstasy-social-media/ http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-roundup-kobo-giving-5-library-referrals-agony-ecstasy-social-media/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:00:53 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=116066 Libraries are Not a ‘Netflix for Books’ (Book Riot) If there’s one phrase I dislike more than the latest company touting itself as the “Netflix for books,” it’s when the retort is that such a thing already exists and it’s called the library. *** TSA Policy Change Increases Tech Security Burden for Travelling Journalists (Media […]

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Morning Roundup: Free eBooks no longer effective? Social media for novelists and more http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-roundup-free-ebooks-no-longer-effective-social-media-for-novelists-and-more/ http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-roundup-free-ebooks-no-longer-effective-social-media-for-novelists-and-more/#comments Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:00:10 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=115989 Readers Gravitate Away from Free Books (GoodeReader) New research is suggesting that giving your eBook away for free might not be effective anymore. *** Social Media Marketing for Novelists, Is Relationship Building (Digital Book World) But social media marketing does not have to mean getting on a loudspeaker and booming out self-lauding messages. That model […]

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Henry Green on Loving and the future of reading http://www.teleread.com/writing/henry-green-loving-future-reading/ http://www.teleread.com/writing/henry-green-loving-future-reading/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2014 18:25:21 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=115022 This post arose as an attempt to review Henry Green‘s inimitable 1945 work Loving, rated by some as one of the best novels of the 20th century, and a masterpiece of dialog – and vernacular speech, in the Cockney and other lower-class English tones of its key servant characters. And it led to a celebrated […]

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Dark Side of the Sun: A Facebook sale, a social media precedent http://www.teleread.com/promotion/dark-side-sun-facebook-sale-social-media-precedent/ http://www.teleread.com/promotion/dark-side-sun-facebook-sale-social-media-precedent/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:25:21 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=114303 For any authors, self-published or otherwise, wondering how to use social media to promote their work, as well as any fans of the dark, weird, and horrible in general, here’s an example for you. A group of horror and dark fiction writers has come together to launch “Dark Side of the Sun: A One-Day Sale […]

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Can we trust that selfie? http://www.teleread.com/social-media/can-trust-selfie/ http://www.teleread.com/social-media/can-trust-selfie/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2014 18:21:01 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=111266 What an honor! Thanks for the #selfie, @BarackObama pic.twitter.com/y5Ww74sEID — David Ortiz (@davidortiz) April 1, 2014 Twice in the last month, two popular selfies were torpedoed across social media. First, it was Ellen DeGeneres’ picture at the Oscars and, most recently, Boston Red Sox’s David Ortiz took a selfie with President Barack Obama. The Red […]

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Morning Roundup: Irish poetry crawl, Building a better Amazon Prime and more http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-roundup-irish-poetry-crawl-building-a-better-amazon-prime-and-more/ http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-roundup-irish-poetry-crawl-building-a-better-amazon-prime-and-more/#comments Mon, 17 Mar 2014 13:00:51 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=109789 Social Media Editors in the Newsroom: What the Job is Really Like (Media Shift) Monday through Friday, Scott Kleinberg’s alarm goes off at 5:30 a.m. The Chicago Tribune social media editor then begins combing the web for news and trends, catching up on anything that happened while he was sleeping. *** A Irish Poetry Crawl […]

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Facebook: authors need to rethink strategy in light of latest changes http://www.teleread.com/social-media/facebook-authors-need-to-rethink-strategy-in-light-of-latest-changes/ http://www.teleread.com/social-media/facebook-authors-need-to-rethink-strategy-in-light-of-latest-changes/#comments Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:18:24 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=106031 Authors will have to re-think how they use Facebook. The social media company announced its changing the way updates from brand Pages will appear in Facebook feeds. Many authors have fan pages instead of profiles and will need to adjust based on the new algorithms, according to a post from Facebook. Facebook’s Chris Turitzin, a […]

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Self-promotion for 2014′s New Year resolution? http://www.teleread.com/self-publishing/self-promotion-for-2014s-new-year-resolution/ http://www.teleread.com/self-publishing/self-promotion-for-2014s-new-year-resolution/#comments Thu, 09 Jan 2014 15:17:15 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=104896 A couple of interesting posts have emerged to kick off the New Year with some useful insights on promotion for self-published authors. The upshot is that self-promotion for self-publishing is more essential than ever before – but also that it doesn’t have to be the blight on a writer’s life or on cultural values that […]

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Zola Books acquires social media site Bookish http://www.teleread.com/social-media/zola-books-acquires-social-media-site-bookish/ http://www.teleread.com/social-media/zola-books-acquires-social-media-site-bookish/#comments Tue, 07 Jan 2014 17:15:05 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=104771 The social media site Bookish has been acquired by Zola Books, Publishers Weekly reported on Monday. The site went live in 2013 backed by three of the five big publishers: Hachette, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster. Zola founder and CEO Joe Regal told PW: “Zola and Bookish share a vision of a richer reader experience, […]

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Morning Roundup: Grinch Who Stole Public Domain, Best Social Media Tools For Journalists http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-roundup-grinch-who-stole-public-domain-best-social-media-tools-for-journalists/ http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-roundup-grinch-who-stole-public-domain-best-social-media-tools-for-journalists/#comments Thu, 02 Jan 2014 14:00:02 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=104510 The Grinch Who Stole the Public Domain (Techdirt) As they do every year, unfortunately, the good folks at the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke have put together a depressing list of what should have entered the public domain yesterday. *** The Year’s Best Social Media Tools for Journalists (Media Shift) […]

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The Original Christmas, Twitter Style http://www.teleread.com/humor/the-original-christmas-twitter-style-2/ http://www.teleread.com/humor/the-original-christmas-twitter-style-2/#comments Sat, 14 Dec 2013 15:35:17 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=103092 Editor’s Note: This is somewhat modified from Dan’s original version. Since social media consulting is my other hat, I tweaked it a bit to add a bit more Twitter-centric style. The essence is all his, however. Enjoy! What would the original Christmas have been like if Twitter had existed? Here’s what we at TeleRead think […]

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Social media focuses on China’s Nov. 23 ‘day of infamy’ http://www.teleread.com/social-media/social-media-focuses-on-chinas-nov-23-day-of-infamy/ http://www.teleread.com/social-media/social-media-focuses-on-chinas-nov-23-day-of-infamy/#comments Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:06:25 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=102931 Far away from the North American continent, China has been doing some saber rattling lately, and on social media has been on it. While most Americans have no idea what is going on between China and Japan and could care less, what with Thanksgiving gorging/shopping just over and Christmas shopping up next, the future of […]

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Want to promote that ebook? Do Facebook http://www.teleread.com/promotion/want-to-promote-that-ebook-do-facebook/ http://www.teleread.com/promotion/want-to-promote-that-ebook-do-facebook/#comments Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:44:57 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=100215 First let me state that I have no shares in Facebook or personal interest in promoting Mark Zuckerberg. But I thought I’d share the new Mashable/Statista/Shareaholic data on traffic from social networks to publishers. After all, it looks like everyone else is sharing – on Facebook most of all. “Facebook Drives the Most Traffic to […]

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