JB Speculates: eBooks, Book Contracts, Agents, and Libraries

I’ve looked in the crystal ball I hide under my desk and caught a glimpse of what ebooks will change in the next few years. Specifically I saw what will happen to: Book Contracts Literary Agents eBook Aggregators and Libraries After showing me the vision, the ball thanked me for shopping at Walmart. Weird. PRINT ONLY CONTRACTS The only reason to

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How libraries select books

Back in May I wrote about a Gallup survey that shed some light on how US adults select books to read. That poll revealed that book reviews only play a role 7% of the time with readers. The most important things to readers are prior experience with an author and recommendations from someone they know. But there’s another important block

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