Macro photography with the Ricoh GR V
The Ricoh GR V crams a great APS-C sensor and a sharp, fast(ish) f2.8 lens into a slim and stylish camera body that can be easily pocketed.
The Ricoh GR V crams a great APS-C sensor and a sharp, fast(ish) f2.8 lens into a slim and stylish camera body that can be easily pocketed.
What current best-selling novel features the blurb: “It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism”?
H M Ward is one of the most prolific and successful authors self-publishing on Amazon and this week sees her with two books on the New York Times Bestseller List with Damaged at No 6 and The Arrangement 6 in 18th place. It might soon be a hat-trick for Holly Ward as the seventh instalment of The Arrangement has just been published and already has over 50 five-star reviews on Amazon within the first two days of publication.
Reading the paperback of Michael Chabon’s latest brilliant novel Telegraph Avenue, I spotted at the back of the book under Acknowledgements: “This novel was written using Scrivener on Macintosh computers.”
Viral Catalysts are the vital difference that can make a book a best seller and Smashwords founder Mark Coker has tried to pick out these catalysts in a major analysis of indie book sales data.
Sales figures are the big secret of self-publishing with plenty of estimates but no solid basis for working out how many ebooks are being sold by Amazon and the rest.
The future of book publishing lies with the independents, according to journalist and ebook writer and publisher Robert Niles.
Are you being churned? The wholesale use of press releases being used unedited by newspapers and websites is being challenged by a new tool in the US called Churnalism from the SunLight Foundation which follows the introduction some while back of a similar website in the UK, www.churnalism.com.
Goodreads have come up with a great infographic to celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday, giving some intriguing reading recommendations for the plays. You can find it at www.goodreads.com
Playwright David Mamet is the latest big-name writer to turn to self-publishing.
Transcribing hours of recorded interviews has always been a pain but galleycat points out that the free Transcribe for Chrome can be a big help and works offline so you don’t need to have an internet connection.
Journalist Brett Forrest has signed a deal to write a book about football match fixing around the world and has also optioned the film rights.
I have just had an article about 10 years of WordPress and the growing importance of WP for journalists published in the digital edition of UK Press Gazette. You can read it at http://viewer.zmags.com
The recently released Amazon Send to Kindle application and plug-in for WordPress could open up massive new markets for journalists, bloggers and publishers.