By Don Lafferty | Writing
WRITERS COFFEEHOUSE THIS SUNDAY hosted by JONATHAN MABERRY This is actually a lie. Jonathan can’t make it this time, but we’ll have a few of the usual suspects in the house to move things along. Sunday, April 26, from noon to 3pm at the SAXBY COFFEE (formerly Bucks County Coffeehouse in Doylestown PA for a […]
By Don Lafferty | Writing
Something unusual is brewing at the Doylestown Bookshop, and it involves games, a bunch of liars and one chill dog. The Philly Liar’s Club is hosting a party called “Liars Tell the Truth about the Doylestown Bookshop“, at the store, located on 16 South Main Street in Doylestown, on Saturday, May 2nd from 2-4 p.m. […]
By Don Lafferty | Writing
Creating a Social Media Footprint is a no-brainer for a writer establishing platform — fiction and non-fiction. Set aside three or four hours of your self-marketing time to knock out the following list of basics, and you’ll be well on your way to having your name and your work more search-able and share-able. 1. Blog […]
By Don Lafferty | Writing
It’s funny how I’m constantly meeting tremendously accomplished people that I never heard of. I made the one hour drive up to Clinton Book Shop last night to meet up with shop manager Rob Dougherty and PATIENT ZERO author Jonathan Maberry. I didn’t realize until I looked at Rob’s Facebook invitation that THE SHADOW YEAR […]
By Don Lafferty | Writing
BROOKE GLADSTONE: From WNYC in New York, this is NPR’s On the Media. I’m Brooke Gladstone.
BOB GARFIELD: And I’m Bob Garfield. The new media are thriving. The old media are dying. That seems to be the theme of our program from week to week to week. But, of course, it’s much more complicated than that because increasingly the old and new are merging into one another.
This week, we’re devoting the program to the oldest of old media – books. Chances are you’ll be buying one or two this holiday season, but where and how you’ll buy them and in what form are open questions.
BROOKE GLADSTONE: Nowadays, some 60 percent of all books are not bought in brick-and-mortar bookstores; they’re purchased at airports or checkout counters, Wal-Mart or Costco, Toys R’ Us or Williams-Sonoma, or online.
In case you were wondering, 11 percent are purchased from Amazon.com. The rest are bought at bookstores, but mostly the big chains. The membership of the American Booksellers Association, which serves independent bookstores, has dropped from more than 5,000 to roughly 1,700 in the last decade. Should we decry the state of publishing today?