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‘Inferno’ Heats Up Social Media
Dan Brown’s Inferno, set to be released May 14 by Doubleday, was the most buzzed-about book on social media in April, according to CoverCake, a company that tracks trending topics on major social media platforms.
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Brooks’s ‘World War’ Tops Talk
Oscar season is over, which means one thing: it’s on to the summer blockbusters.
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Seattle YA Authors Organize Grassroots Tour
The "You Are Next" tour has visited schools and bookstores in Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Portland, Ore. Next stop: Disneyland.
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‘Sniper’ Tops Oscars in Social Media
Interest in the Oscars and the books that many were based on garnered lots of buzz on social media in February, but it was the murder of Chris Kyle, author of American Sniper, that put that title atop CoverCake’s most-talked-about books in social media last month.
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MetaComet Debuts AuthorPortal.com
MetaComet Systems has begun tests on AuthorPortal.com, a new platform that it hopes will improve communications between authors, publishers and agents.
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Cravebox Markets Old-Fashioned Product in New-Fashioned Way
The Colorado-based marketing company Cravebox, which has just begun to work with publishers, is something of an oddity.
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A New Kind of Conference for a New Kind of Author
O’Reilly Media and Publishers Weekly will hold the first Author {R}evolution Day February 12 at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. Below is a discussion with co-chair Kristen McLean on what attendees can expect at the day-long event.
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‘Going Clear,’ ‘My Beloved Country’ Join The Leaders
Without a blockbuster release in January, the most-discussed books in social media circles last month remained the same as in December, although there was some shifting of the order, with Fifty Shades of Grey taking over the #1 spot from The Hobbit, according to CoverCake’s analysis of books trending on social media.
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‘The Hobbit’ on Top; ‘Fifty Shades’ Is Back
J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit continues as the #1 book on social media, according to CoverCake, a company that uses analytical tools to track what’s trending on social media, its popularity obviously being driven by the movie.
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Bloomsbury Targeting Digital Readers In New Global Campaign
Bloomsbury, with its new Just Great Reads promotion, is running what it is calling the "first ever" global marketing campaign targeted expressly at readers who favor devices.
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