a:59:{s:15:"comment_post_ID";s:4:"7250";s:14:"comment_author";s:20:"Jenni Holbrook-Talty";s:20:"comment_author_email";s:23:"jenni@jenniholbrook.com";s:18:"comment_author_url";s:39:"http://www.writeitforward.wordpress.com";s:15:"comment_content";s:1151:"Thanks for the link to the Tribal Writer blog. I agree that twitter can be more effective, but other authors I know think facebook is more effective for them. I suppose it then comes down to what you can spend your time doing and what works for you.

At Write It Forward we have a saying, Writers produce the product and Readers consumer the product, everything else is in the middle. Distribution is changing and because distribution is changing Publishers selling to the retail chains doesn't necessarily get books in the hands of readers. Retailers are buying less stock. Less mid-list authors. 

The Digital Book World Conference was this past week and I followed the twitter convo and it was very interesting. B&N here in the states sold more from their on-line store then they did in physical stores. Its more than the digital age being upon us. The publishing system is broken and some big changes need to be made. Unfortunately that leaves the author to pick up the slack making it his job to write and promote their books. On the other hand, with change comes opportunity and this past year has been the best year in my publishing career.";s:12:"comment_type";s:0:"";s:14:"comment_parent";s:1:"0";s:7:"user_ID";s:1:"0";s:7:"user_ip";s:12:"66.66.217.27";s:10:"user_agent";s:127:"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4";s:8:"referrer";s:72:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/01/another-view-on-social-media-for-authors/";s:4:"blog";s:22:"http://davidhewson.com";s:9:"blog_lang";s:5:"en_US";s:12:"blog_charset";s:5:"UTF-8";s:9:"permalink";s:72:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/01/another-view-on-social-media-for-authors/";s:9:"user_role";s:0:"";s:21:"akismet_comment_nonce";s:6:"passed";s:11:"POST_author";s:20:"Jenni Holbrook-Talty";s:10:"POST_email";s:23:"jenni@jenniholbrook.com";s:8:"POST_url";s:39:"http://www.writeitforward.wordpress.com";s:12:"POST_comment";s:1152:"Thanks for the link to the Tribal Writer blog. I agree that twitter can be more effective, but other authors I know think facebook is more effective for them. I suppose it then comes down to what you can spend your time doing and what works for you.

At Write It Forward we have a saying, Writers produce the product and Readers consumer the product, everything else is in the middle. Distribution is changing and because distribution is changing Publishers selling to the retail chains doesn't necessarily get books in the hands of readers. Retailers are buying less stock. Less mid-list authors. 

The Digital Book World Conference was this past week and I followed the twitter convo and it was very interesting. B&N here in the states sold more from their on-line store then they did in physical stores. Its more than the digital age being upon us. The publishing system is broken and some big changes need to be made. Unfortunately that leaves the author to pick up the slack making it his job to write and promote their books. On the other hand, with change comes opportunity and this past year has been the best year in my publishing career. ";s:11:"POST_submit";s:12:"Post Comment";s:20:"POST_comment_post_ID";s:4:"7250";s:19:"POST_comment_parent";s:1:"0";s:26:"POST_akismet_comment_nonce";s:10:"6d5e1c8571";s:15:"SERVER_SOFTWARE";s:79:"Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4";s:11:"REQUEST_URI";s:21:"/wp-comments-post.php";s:14:"CONTENT_LENGTH";s:4:"1389";s:12:"CONTENT_TYPE";s:33:"application/x-www-form-urlencoded";s:13:"DOCUMENT_ROOT";s:42:"/home/davidhe4/public_html/davidhewson.com";s:17:"GATEWAY_INTERFACE";s:7:"CGI/1.1";s:11:"HTTP_ACCEPT";s:90:"application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING";s:13:"gzip, deflate";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE";s:5:"en-us";s:15:"HTTP_CONNECTION";s:10:"keep-alive";s:11:"HTTP_COOKIE";s:0:"";s:9:"HTTP_HOST";s:15:"davidhewson.com";s:11:"HTTP_ORIGIN";s:22:"http://davidhewson.com";s:12:"HTTP_REFERER";s:72:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/01/another-view-on-social-media-for-authors/";s:15:"HTTP_USER_AGENT";s:127:"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4";s:4:"PATH";s:13:"/bin:/usr/bin";s:12:"QUERY_STRING";s:0:"";s:15:"REDIRECT_STATUS";s:3:"200";s:11:"REMOTE_ADDR";s:12:"66.66.217.27";s:11:"REMOTE_PORT";s:5:"50272";s:14:"REQUEST_METHOD";s:4:"POST";s:15:"SCRIPT_FILENAME";s:63:"/home/davidhe4/public_html/davidhewson.com/wp-comments-post.php";s:11:"SCRIPT_NAME";s:21:"/wp-comments-post.php";s:11:"SERVER_ADDR";s:14:"67.225.237.100";s:12:"SERVER_ADMIN";s:37:"webmaster@davidhewson.davidhewson.net";s:11:"SERVER_NAME";s:15:"davidhewson.com";s:11:"SERVER_PORT";s:2:"80";s:15:"SERVER_PROTOCOL";s:8:"HTTP/1.1";s:16:"SERVER_SIGNATURE";s:133:"<address>Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4 Server at davidhewson.com Port 80</address>
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