Comments on: Publishers and Twitter http://www.publishingtrends.com/2009/02/publishers-and-twitter/ News and opinion on the changing world of book publishing Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:36:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Linda Austin http://www.publishingtrends.com/2009/02/publishers-and-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Linda Austin Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:14:00 +0000 http://publishingtrends.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/publishers-and-twitter/#comment-44 I indie-published a Japan memoir and just joined Twitter last fall. Skeptical, but now I love it. I learn so much, keep up with news, get ideas for blogposts, etc. I follow one agent who is an informative and fun twitterer and several big publishers who are not interesting. Publishers ought to have a face on Twitter for good pr, providing publishing info (comments, answers, links) and promoting their author events. We find you, but most of you are boring. I indie-published a Japan memoir and just joined Twitter last fall. Skeptical, but now I love it. I learn so much, keep up with news, get ideas for blogposts, etc. I follow one agent who is an informative and fun twitterer and several big publishers who are not interesting. Publishers ought to have a face on Twitter for good pr, providing publishing info (comments, answers, links) and promoting their author events. We find you, but most of you are boring.

]]> By: Henry http://www.publishingtrends.com/2009/02/publishers-and-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Henry Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:43:00 +0000 http://publishingtrends.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/publishers-and-twitter/#comment-43 I run a self-publishing site. I tweeted an interview with Tessa Dick, last wife of Philip K. Dick. Very soon after it was picked up by the L.A. Times Jacket Flap blog (a follower). From there it kind of exploded into many other places (NY Times, Guardian...) Not really sure how else the link could have been found at that point except Twitter. <br/><br/>Anyway, Twitter has been good to me. I wrote a post about Twitter and book marketing if anyone's interested:<br/><br/><a HREF="http://www.selfpublishingreview.com/2009/02/17/using-twitter-for-book-marketing/" REL="nofollow">Using Twitter for Book Marketing</a> I run a self-publishing site. I tweeted an interview with Tessa Dick, last wife of Philip K. Dick. Very soon after it was picked up by the L.A. Times Jacket Flap blog (a follower). From there it kind of exploded into many other places (NY Times, Guardian…) Not really sure how else the link could have been found at that point except Twitter.

Anyway, Twitter has been good to me. I wrote a post about Twitter and book marketing if anyone’s interested:

Using Twitter for Book Marketing

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