Todays links of interest:
- Could Dan Brown’s ‘Lost Symbol’ Sell Better on Kindle Than in Hardcover?
The numbers indicate brisk sales for the Kindle edition of The Lost Symbol, but are they more harbinger than trend? - Authorial, agently and personal ramblings
Lucienne Diver looks at the state of the industry. A few quibbles: Naked Came the Manatee was, obviously, an homage to the 1960s classic Naked Came the Stranger; also, while the HarperStudio model is suggestive of no/low advances, they haven’t made that a priority. Yet. - Teaching computers to read: Google acquires reCAPTCHA
This is an interesting development, and it bodes well for the quality control issues cited by users of the Google Books programs. Also, if you’re going to use CAPTCHA technology, this is the best one going. - ‘Lost Symbol’ Gets Fast Start, Trailed by ‘True Compass’
Interesting data here. Sales, brisk. Kennedy book still doing well. Oh, and prices. The playing field is not so level. Loved this question from Joe Drabyak about marketing support for the Brown book, “There’s no foam core poster, no standees. It would have been nice if there had been something to make a window display. There were no galley mailings. What actually did they spend their money on?” - DNAML Releases PDF to ePub Conversion Software
Interesting. - Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol falls into the hands of pirates
What’s surprising is that this didn’t happen *before* the book was released. That’s pretty amazing, if you think about it. And based on initial reports, it doesn’t appear this piracy is impacting sales on any significant level, ebook or print. - BookFinder.com Report August 2009 – Out-of-Print Trends
What books are people looking for? What books aren’t available via any new book source? - Murdoch hails electronic reading devices
Also looks forward to the day of no unions.