Forget the bustier rippers and the thick afternoon romance novels with Fabio on the cover. According to eBook Explosion, the number one genre out there is ‘sensual romance.’ Mommy porn. The stuff that makes even Anastasia Steele breathe heavier when she’s not hanging out with Christian Grey (yeah, I just made a Shades of Grey reference).
From SBWire:
A new study based on sales of 2,265 eBook titles released by eBook Explosion, a social media marketing company, reports that the “Sensual Romance” genre (dubbed as “Mommy Porn”) has risen to the #1 spot in both sales and conversion rates among the books marketed by the company using the social media.
Amazon is a pioneer in the customer review arena. Practically since the beginning, the site has had customers who purchased products and reviewed them. Over the years, they’ve cultivated their reviewers and refined a continually maintained list of “Top Customer Reviewers.” The list of top reviewers is updated once a day, and – according to Amazon – “showcase our best contributors at the moment.”
The Savvy Book Marketer has put up a blog post by Kathleen Gage about book promotion strategies. This is an area where many writers fail, as … well, they’re writers, not marketers.
CourseSmart has been working with publishers, educators and students since 2007 to integrate ebooks and digital content into college technology ecosystems, bringing digital course materials directly to faculty and student bodies.
I recently read a diatribe by an author about how great and wonderful DRM is. And how it saved the music industry. And how they believe they “added something unique to the market, and I believe I deserve to be paid for my work.” And how ebooks are in decline. And how “a lack of DRM decimated the music industry.”