Self-Published Authors on Twitter

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Directory of Self-Published Authors on Twitter

The self-publishing industry is gaining popularity. Technology has made it much easier for aspiring authors, who have struggled to get traditional book deals, to publish their books. Unfortunately, these books have little or no marketing or pre-established audiences waiting for a book's release. Some self-published authors are using Twitter to help get the word out about their books.

What is Twitter? 

Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 bytes in length. Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them.

What does self-publishing mean? 

Self-publishing is the publishing of books and other media by the authors of those works, rather than by established, third-party publishers, or by vanity presses. Although it represents a small percentage of the publishing industry in terms of sales, it has been present in one form or another since the beginning of publishing and has seen an increase in activity with the advancement of publishing technology, including xerography, desktop publishing systems, print on demand, and the World Wide Web. Cultural phenomena such as the punk/DIY movement, the proliferation of media channels, and blogging have contributed to the advancement of self-publishing.

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I recently joined Twitter and started searching for interesting people to follow. As an avid reader, I thought it would be great to find some well-known authors and get to know them better. Unfortunately, this wasn't as easy as I thought it would be....

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Marketing your book on Twitter. 

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lovelylj says:

It has gotten Escape 2 Earth a lot of attention, especially after linking it to the facebook back.

Posted April 17, 2009

Not so far.

cliff1974 says:

I'm not sure yet. Nobody has visited my website from twitter, so I'd say not so far. I've posted enough links on where you can find my novel though!

Posted June 04, 2009

 

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Blogs about Self-Publishing 

December 1, 2009 Volume 4: Issue 21
If you are interested in writing an article about your experiences as a self-published author, I would be more than happy to consider it for publication. If I publish the article, I will give you space for a signature box that you could ...
Traditional Publishing, Self Publishing, and Vanity Presses: My ...
The next most popular objection to self-publishing by traditional authors is that self-publishers don't have the agreements with booksellers that big publishing houses do, so a self-published author won't see their book on the shelf. .... Self-publishing isn't a threat to traditional publishing. But in a world where people can call in and vote for who should be the next big thing in music, a guy making Twitter posts of amusing shit his dad says can get a TV deal with CBS, ...
Why Do Fiction Publishers Get So Uptight About Self-Publishing ...
The distinctions around distribution and marketing are the trickiest for independent authors, but as you note Facebook and Twitter and email and blogs and other e-outlets can level the playing field to some extent. ..... At least all those bookstores who refuse to entertain true self-published and independently published fiction merely because the true self-published authors as well as the independent publishers will not play by the major traditional publishers' ...
How Publishing Really Works: Self-Publishing Sales Statistics ...
As the sales figures I quoted came directly from POD-based self-publishing service providers, not only do those figures include all copies sold in bookshops or by Amazon, etc.; they also include all copies subsequently returned by bookshops to ... and so they have to credit the bookseller's account for those returned books even if they're no longer in a sellable condition); they also include as sales every single copy that the authors bought and then sent out, for free, ...
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