Self-Publish Your eBook. Reason #1

Teenage Vampire Fiction

Just a short post to highlight a couple of good blogs/articles elsewhere. One from the Economist called 'The Death of chick lit' in the Prospero blog and a follow-on from Mercy Pilkington at Good eReader. They both focus on the often ignored phenomenon within traditional print publishing which is the attempt to follow fads, flog them to death, then abandon them when sales have slowed. New writers often don't appreciate that book publishers are businesses that have to make money to survive and one of their methods is to find something that sells, or copy something else and ride on the success. Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series spawned a mini industry of teen vampire novels (and TV series) that's lasted for three or four years. Now the peak of the wave is over, the market appears to have moved on for some publishers but there is still a good following for authors in this genre. Self-publishing through Barnes and Noble's PubIt, or through Amazon, or into the Apple iBookstore is a perfectly good route for such authors.

More to come on this... In the meantime, I need to embed the number 2UFQWYKWWMPN which a my Technorati claim token and should allow this blog to be published by a wider audience.

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