J.A. Marlow

This post is part of a blog carnival. To find the other posts in this carnival, go here. The topic of the blog carnival is “Why I am Indie”. Well, I don’t have a book out there yet, but in early 2011 I will, and I’ve already chosen to go indie. I’ve discussed the basis [...]

Do I think print books are dead? Absolutely not. I love them and so do a great many others. But I also see things changing, and the print form of books may take a different (and smaller) market segment than they do now. Along with them will go the ‘traditional’ path of the big publisher. [...]

Publishers Weekly has revealed Amazon’s plans to separate the free Kindle books into their own list. There is no date yet set for the change other than it will happen in “a few weeks”. This is a good news/bad news situation. On one hand, the free downloads were a great way for a book, especially [...]

* If you don’t know what the customer wants, then you aren’t going to find a customer base for your product. For a business to function and survive, it must sell product. That means it all comes down to the customer. Who is the customer? What are their details? What do they like? How much [...]

This article at the New Yorker concerning the changes in the publishing industry is very interesting, but very lopsided. It also had some mistakes in it. Such as the number of books ‘sold’ on the first day of the iPad release. The numbers Apple released were how many were DOWNLOADED, not sold. And considering the [...]

I had a big long post to start this off, and then I realized it was a rant about the traditional publishing industry. And that wasn’t supposed to be the point of it. So, I’m starting again. I’m a writer. An author. A STORYTELLER. I started to learn to read early because I was fascinated [...]

J.A. Konrath has posted his to-date Kindle E-book sales figures for the month of February 2010. Wow, interesting numbers. Keeping in mind that he has a series (and other books) ‘traditionally’ published and has generated a following with those, the numbers are still very interesting. Kudos to an author for sharing numbers in this time [...]