Archive for March, 2007

Hole in the Ship Getting Bigger at Gannett

An article from the New York Times sheds light on the continual downward decline in ad sales at Gannett, a prediction I made last year in my post entitled “Why Newspapers Are Dying a Slow, Painful Death.” Seems that USA Today is taking on water faster (14% decline from February 2006-February 2007) than the local [...]

Charteous Your Book’s Amazon Sales

You can track your stocks on Yahoo! Finance. You can track your web site’s traffic relative to the rest of the Internet on Alexa. Thanks to Charteous, you can track the Amazon sales rank of your book as well!
No need to register, just punch in your book’s ISBN number and Charteo.us draws a historical sales [...]

LibraryThing.com Networks Book Lovers, Readers

When you look at all the social networking websites out there (MySpace, Friendster, Facebook), authors often ask themselves “how can I cash in on this craze to market ‘my’ book?”
The answer: LibraryThing.com
This online book lovers networking site allows users to catalog their favorite books online and share their collections with other users. Think of all [...]