At World Fantasy Convention I learned that the publishing industry is in a state of flux and chaos and that even traditional publishing house editors are becoming excited about the possibilities of eBooks.
Kindle e-books are now outselling all formats of paper books (combined) in the Amazon.co.uk store. I guess I better get to work on UK promotion.
Amazon promotes those who promote themselves. If you leave it just up to Amazon to market your novel, the Amazing and Scary Amazon Algorithm will drop your novel from auto-suggest.
Rumors of evil eBook authors abound at Ad-Astra. I debunk them, but I doubt I convinced anyone to drop their passion for the Big Six Publishers.
Ad-Astra seems to be very reluctant to use the word eBooks. Perhaps it's just style issue, but I'm worried that some of the anti-eBook sentiment that I sensed last year is still lingering around.
In the future, agents will simply troll through the Amazon Best Sellers Rank to find talent.
Never put all your eggs in one basket. This wise old saying was invoked by many pundits when they wrote
I was surprised to find the cookbook Amazing Cheesecakes, was being auto-suggested to fans of Apocalypse Revolution, and the other way round.
John and Me on the Same Page My first published shorts stories were in a small Canadian magazine called Storyteller--alas,
My promo days with Amazon have been roaring successes so far.