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You tell us: What's your favorite Nancy Drew memory?

Posted on 07/12/2020 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Last Friday was the 115th birthday of Mildred Wirt Benson, better known as the first Carolyn Keene. You've shared wonderful...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Mystery, Reader stories, Young adult literature

How booksellers can benefit from quarantine reading trends

Posted on 07/12/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The online book club The Pigeonhole, like many others in the literary community, wondered how readers’ behavior has changed during...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, The Bookseller

Bookish birthdays for the week of July 12, 2020

Posted on 07/12/2020 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Here are the literary birthdays to celebrate over the week of July 12, 2020. Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817):...

Tagged As: History, Just for fun

A librarian's argument for eliminating overdue fees

Posted on 07/11/2020 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Fun fact: late fines only make up about 1.5 percent of a library’s operating budget. That national average was shared...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Libraries, NPR

Your book cover's role in the prelaunch marketing campaign

Posted on 07/11/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We’ve shared quite a few posts about book launches (or relaunches) lately. Here’s another one, but from a very specific,...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Cover design, Dave Chesson (the Kindlepreneur), Marketing

Fussy’s favorites: Week of July 5, 2020

Posted on 07/11/2020 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It’s easy to miss the occasional post or two online, so we’ve rounded up some of the highlights from our...

Categories: Favorites

Tagged As: Just for fun

Author Brad Watson has died

Posted on 07/10/2020 at 04:42 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Sad news in the literary world: author Brad Watson died this week at the age of sixty-four. Watson’s novel The...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Obituary

7 ebook marketing tips to promote your free ebook

Posted on 07/10/2020 at 08:59 AM by Guest Author

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Looking for ways to promote your free ebook and increase reader interest? You’ve come to the right place! Learn about...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Marketing, Social media and websites

New York Times bestsellers: Week of July 18, 2020

Posted on 07/10/2020 at 08:33 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The New York Times’s bestseller list for combined print and ebook fiction is out for the week of July 18,...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Bestsellers, Book lists, The New York Times

Amazon, Penguin Random House team up in piracy lawsuit

Posted on 07/09/2020 at 05:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Upon reading about the latest lawsuit in big publishing, we couldn’t help but think of the cliché “the enemy of...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Amazon, Lawsuit, Scandal