Perseus Digital Services
April 30, 2009
Perseus Books Group offers its distribution clients a wide range of digital production and marketing options via their Constelllation Services. Pegasus has negotiated special pricing with each service provider.
These services include;
- eBooks.com
- Follett Digital Services, for e-book sales to libraries;
- Ingram Digital
- North Plains
- Amazon Digital,
- Sony
- Barnes & Noble,
- ebrary
- OverDrive
Book publishers can pick and choose which Constellation services they want to use.
For more information visit:
http://www.perseusdigital.com/constellation/home.php
HarperCollins Digital Catalog
April 29, 2009
HarperCollins has switched to a digital catalog of its books, and is no longer producing printed catalogs.
http://www.harpercollinscatalogs.com/harper/default.htm
This well organized catalog is searchable by imprint, title, author and ISBN.
Each listing shows title information, marketing plans, author bio and may also include extras such as sample spreads, audio files, links to the book’s website, videos, and other extras.
Amazon Marketing Tips
December 27, 2008
With the economy in a recession many publishers are seeing a sales decrease; however, some have seen substantial increases in their sales. One client of ours has seen sales increase by 30%.
Why? Part of the reason is that in 2008 they really focused on Amazon. Read more
Kindle Sales Reach 12%
July 13, 2008
Publishers Weekly reported that:
“Amazon said Thursday that on a title-by-title basis, of the 130,000 titles available on Kindle and in physical form, Kindle sales now make up over 12% of sales for those titles.”
Audio Book Creation with AudioBrite
June 28, 2008
AudioBrite is a producer of audio books for publishers. They create audio books for large and small book publishers.
The cost? About $700 per 10,000 words. They use professional narrators and fine tune the audio recording to produce a clean and noise free recording.
They also help publishers to sell their book in CD format on Amazon.com and in downloadable format on Apple’s iTunes Store.
Visit www.audiobrite.com to learn more.
Author Videos from Authorviews.com
June 28, 2008
Authorviews provides publishers with professionally produced videos suitable for use on your web site, iTunes, YouTube, vAmazon.com, Barnes&Nobles.com, myspace, facebook, and Linked In.
The cost? $5,000 for five 15 minute video interviews edited to 2 minute web videos with motion picture quality video, lighting and sound.
Visit www.AuthorViews.com for more information
