Forbes has taken note of how quickly eBooks can rise up the charts, and – as better and better tools become available through places like Vook, Division, and Byliner – we will see books hitting the eShelves as fast as the authors can type them.
In the example cited, it took the author 72 hours to write the eBook, 36 hours to produce it, and less than 24 hours to publish it (between you and me, though, I if he’d REALLY pushed it, he could have had a physical book out through Createspace, too!).
Authors: the world is your oyster. Get your fingers typing, and use all of the tools in your arsenal to get your work into the hands of your readers.
From the article:
Linsanity, as the craze surrounding him became known, also swept the publishing industry. Half-a-dozen books were scheduled to be published when his compelling story reached national prominence, none more stunning than Linsanity: The Improbable Rise of Jeremy Lin.
What made this title by sportswriter Alan Goldsher from digital publishing house and platform Vook so shocking was that it took less than six days to write (72 hours), produce (36 hours) and publish (less than 24 hours).
“The Vook platform offered us an opportunity that we’d never have had years or even months ago – to publish directly and immediately into a trend,” Goldsher’s agent Jason Allen Ashlock told me at the time.
While fairly novel in February 2012, when the book came out, these kinds of fast-turnaround ebooks are quickly becoming the norm. New technology tools such as offered by Vook and others give authors and publishers the ability to conceive of, create, distribute and sell books in time-frames that would have seemed insane even just a few years ago.
You can read the entire Forbes article HERE.
You can find Alan Goldsher’s Linsanity: The Improbable Rise of Jeremy Lin eBook HERE.