Publishing Trends

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Theres a cornucopia of newsletters, blogs and podcasts available to publishers, authors, and book people, so we asked those who follow the industry what they actually read. Mark William , Editor in Chief of the New Publishing Standard, posts A View From the Beach on LinkedIn.

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 19, 2024

Every month, I compile three bestseller lists that showcase what books are currently selling through online retail, using Bookstat data. ” All of these lists tend to put self-published authors front and center, authors who often miss out on appearing on national bestseller lists. I call it “Hidden Gems.”

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 20, 2023

10, a new book was self-published, Fire and Fur y: The Story of the 2023 Maui Fire and its Implications for Climate Change by “Dr. I tweeted about the situation, noting that IngramSpark, a division of Ingram, must be distributing these books to the broader retail market. Just two days after the Maui wildfires began, on Aug.

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Elna Cain

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Pitch email guideline example of what not to pitch Atlas Obscura specifically lays out what they don’t want and things they will never publish for their magazine. This means your guest article is no longer published or live. Here’s a pitch email guidelines example from Atlas Obscura. What can you do?

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The Idea Logical Company

OCTOBER 26, 2021

What has happened since the pre-21st Century publishing world I — and so many of the executives now running things in our industry — grew up in is that book sales have shifted and fragmented. A second is that no publisher who didn’t invest in inventory and an organization could really compete.

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Animalz

DECEMBER 5, 2024

I’m pretty happy if people still talk about one of my articles a few weeks after I hit publish. Kevin Kelly, the legendary founder and editor of WIRED , realized the internet allowed creators* to establish direct relationships with their fans, instead of through intermediaries like publishers and record labels.

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Buffer

JULY 31, 2024

😉) But there are also more niche newsletters like Lia Haberman’s ICYMI for influencer marketing information and The Publish Press’s newsletter if you’re into the creator economy. (And might I say, Buffer’s weekly newsletter is also A+ for social media deets? Where can you find these news outlets?

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 24, 2023

I’ve had a couple of experiences over the past six months or so that have provided some intriguing glimpses at how publishing services are trying to make even just a little more money, while the behemoth Amazon dominates search and sales in self-publishing. Amazon.ca: paperback $21.09; hardcover $39.70 And on it goes like that.

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Credible Content

MAY 28, 2023

Writing and publishing e-books for personal branding. What Is E-Book Writing and Publishing? E-book writing and publishing refers to the process of creating, formatting, and distributing electronic books, also known as e-books. Marketing and Promotion Effective marketing and promotion play a vital role in e-book publishing.

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Jane Friedman

MAY 2, 2023

Photo by ANTONI SHKRABA production Today’s post is by David Wogahn, the author of Countdown to Book Launch and the president of AuthorImprints , a self-publishing services company. This article is based on his presentation at IBPA’s Publishing University , Launch Plans—Build Out Your Blueprint for Success. A change of heart or opinion?

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 15, 2024

Writing and publishing a nonfiction book is a big investment—of time, energy, and often money. What kind of publishing path is right for your book? When new authors come to us, they often have an idea in their minds about what getting their dream publishing deal will look like: an agent, a big advance, and a book tour.

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Jane Friedman

JUNE 22, 2023

Outbound links: less is more If you’ve created an author website to sell books, your first logical impulse may be to cram in as many retailer links as possible. Plus, how do we address the issue of international retailers with multiple stores? Consider the user journey All your pictures, text, and retailer links are ready.

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Buffer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Just take a look at any TikTok trend—like the feta cheese pasta recipe that caused demand for feta cheese to spike so high that retailers couldn’t keep it stocked. And you don’t need to go far to find examples of the bandwagon effect in the wild. Like asking them to share a story. And if you’re still stuck?

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Traditional publishing is not a monolithic thing. There are different kinds of publishers, and authors want different things out of a publishing deal and relationship. Georgina Cross talks about her experience with two different traditional publishers and the pros and cons of each. Welcome to the show, Georgina.

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Jane Friedman

MAY 7, 2024

There’s been a lot of discussion recently about the challenges around publishing with the Big Five, some of it overblown and some of it valid. Here are three great resources for compiling your initial list of publishers who accept unagented work: Authors Publish : Their free magazine is full of opportunities for unagented writers.

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Jane Friedman

JULY 2, 2024

Today’s post is excerpted from The Untold Story of Books: A Writer’s History of Book Publishing by Michael Castleman. From the first copyrights to the present day, piracy has been a thread woven through the tapestry of publishing. In current parlance, they were self-published. Why pay to publish?

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 12, 2023

This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. is the CEO of AuthorMedia.com , an award-winning professional speaker, nonfiction author, and host of the Novel Marketing Podcast and the Christian Publishing Show. Thomas Umstattd Jr.

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The Idea Logical Company

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

There are, at this moment, still five US commercial book publishers of mega-size. The story of the book business in the 20th century was the story of growth on the back of ever-increasing retail shelf space for books. Successful commercial trade publishing was built on taking efficient advantage of the extensive retail network.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

Publish those testimonials on your site. I’ve been publishing testimonials from my satisfied clients on this site for some time now, and I can attest to the fact that they help persuade prospects to convert into clients and subscribers. An Apple retail store is designed for test driving products not grabbing boxes.

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Kristi Hines

AUGUST 2, 2023

Streamline your client’s content publishing across platforms like WordPress, Twitter, YouTube, Shopify, and Medium with Content.app. Generate and publish SEO-optimized blog pages swiftly with QuickBlog, and craft marketing-driven landing pages with QuickPage. Employ the My Writing Companion plugin to run a content writing agency.

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Elna Cain

APRIL 15, 2024

One of the largest online retailers in the WORLD is apparently hiring “fully-remote freelance content writers” who… work full time, 9 – 5 EST can enroll in a healthcare plan get paid well below the current industry standard Y’all, this is BONKERS. I wouldn’t write a short trial sample for a company.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 30, 2020

An affiliate network connects publishers, like blog owners or influencers, with companies looking to promote their products or services. The most popular example of an affiliate network is Amazon, which allows publishers and influencers to promote thousands of products and earn a commission for each purchase their readers or followers make.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 19, 2021

That’s why we’re going to unpack Target Roundel, a powerful, complex retail media network with quite a few tricks up its Target advertising sleeve. Target defines Target Roundel as its internal retail media network. Of course, if you aren’t familiar with the concept of retail media, that definition doesn’t offer much clarity.

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The Creative Penn

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

How can you create a high-quality photo book and publish it on Kickstarter? But you're not on the travel podcast today, you're on the publishing podcast. One thing about taking photos, and especially publishing photos, is about photos of people. How do you market a beautiful, high-value book? So let's get into that.

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The Idea Logical Company

MARCH 9, 2021

There’s quite a bit of publishing about publishing going on in the next few weeks. Robin Gaster has done a deep dive on Amazon called “Behemoth, Amazon Rising” which he is self-publishing. Both companies had databases of published books. British academic John B. Sometimes a lot longer.

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Publishing Trends

MARCH 2, 2023

Every month, Publishing Trends runs fiction international bestsellers lists from four territories–France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Those books that have been published in English are listed with their official English-language title. Where applicable, the US publisher is listed after the local publisher, separated by a “/”.

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Publishing Trends

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Every month, Publishing Trends runs fiction international bestsellers lists from four territories–France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Those books that have been published in English are listed with their official English-language title. Where applicable, the US publisher is listed after the local publisher, separated by a “/”.

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Publishing Trends

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Every month, Publishing Trends runs fiction international bestsellers lists from four territories–France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Those books that have been published in English are listed with their official English-language title. Where applicable, the US publisher is listed after the local publisher, separated by a “/”.

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Publishing Trends

JANUARY 3, 2023

Every month, Publishing Trends runs fiction international bestsellers lists from four territories–France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Those books that have been published in English are listed with their official English-language title. Where applicable, the US publisher is listed after the local publisher, separated by a “/”.

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Jane Friedman

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Photo credit: Clarissa Peterson / CC BY-NC-SA Update (December 2024): In 2012, I wrote an earlier version of this article as a warning to self-published authors who fallprey to scams that take advantage of the highly recognized industry trade show, BookExpo(also known as BEA). They are important primarily to large traditional publishers.

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 29, 2023

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash Today’s post is excerpted from Writing That Gets Noticed: Find Your Voice, Become a Better Storyteller, Get Published by Estelle Erasmus. This piece was published in AARP’s The Girlfriend. For a list of US newspapers that publish op-eds, check out the OpEd Project.

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The Idea Logical Company

JULY 5, 2021

My most recent post noted the rise of what I called “enterprise self-publishing” It increasingly looks to me like enterprise-driven book publishing will become the dominant provider of books over the next decade. The 20th century saw the growth of book retailing through stores.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 4, 2022

This means, if you have an ecommerce site or work on publishing product reviews on Google, you need to pay attention to Google’s product review update for the best results. Here’s an example from Digital Trends showing how you can add multiple retailer links to your product reviews. The best part? Write With the User in Mind.

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Melanie Saxton

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Forbes also published “ 10 Best Business Books Of 2022.” These types of corporate books can be authored by fashion icons, retail giants, and business moguls who took unconventional paths and accumulated unusual — and funny — stories.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 30, 2021

If you’re retailing products and want to reach the widest audience possible, having a well-optimized e-commerce website is an absolute must. SEO for e-commerce is a strategy that helps web retailers rank higher in search engine results. Well, there are several benefits. How do you do that? It’s simple enough: with SEO for e-commerce.

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Elna Cain

JUNE 3, 2023

Fortunately, a month later, they published my post and emailed me that they did publish my post! For many new writers, they lean on their career choice – nursing, teaching, retail, and realtors – to land their first few freelance writing clients. They only recently told me they would look at my article that day.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In the intro, marketing for multi-genre authors [ Self Publishing Advice ]; Same as Ever: Timeless lessons on risk, opportunity, and living a good life by Morgan Housel ; Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes , and what we can learn from both of these books. So first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing.

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