With the rise of Social Media, publishers, authors, journalists and bloggers are jumping on the bandwagon of Facebook and Twitter.

If we were to use the diffusion of innovation framework by Prof. Roger, we could perhaps say that after Innovators and Early Adopters also Early Majority is moving in now. Read more »

[Crossposted with my blog at nickharkaway.com - it's a bit long and sprawling for here and I was only going to wallop you with a snippet, but hey - you're all grown ups, right? You can handle the verbiage.] Read more »

Inspired by a tweet from Waterstones University of Birmingham asking about authors on Twitter, I decided to tweet a few of my favourites. In my opinion, authors are some of the best Twitter users. Giving, what can be a fairly solitary pursuit, an instant connection with fans, bookshops, librarians and publishing folk and a great way of conducting research for their books. Read more »

Many thanks to Stephen for responding so openly to our Twitter crowdsourced Q&A. Read more »

My preference for Twitter is largely due to its popularity with a very active publishing community and ease of use. Read more »

Author Marcus Chown discusses the origin of his new book Tweeting the Universe: It all started on a small island in the Caribbean. Well, it makes a better story doesn't it?! Read more »

Having your app reviewed is one of the keys to success in the app store. Here is a long list of app review Twitter accounts with their website links. If you work for one of these review sites and you'd like to give some more information, please get in touch. Also if you'd like to add one, email me twitter at bookseller.co.uk Read more »

I spent some time with Penguin’s stunning On The Road app this week, it’s a treasure trove of engaging content, illuminating back-story and to top it all off it's a book I love.  However what really caught my eye was the pre-publication letter from Patricia McManus, the Publicity Director of Viking, to Jack Kerouac. Read more »

If you are a frequent Twitter user, you must have seen tweets like: ‘I downloaded … for free using Pay with a tweet’ or ‘I paid with a tweet to get … for free’ or something similar. A phenomenon that is gaining popularity, in use, but one that is so wrong that I have no other word for it than to call it spam. Read more »

We've just had month four since our 'online expansion', and overseas paperback sales were over 200% up on last year. Now that we are confident the growth is sustained, on Thursday at 3pm (UK Time) we will be hosting a free webinar to share how we are doing it.

We will be sharing the key actions we have been taking since the 1st December when we started our online expansion overseas. We'll be covering:

- The websites

- Social Media (Facebook, Blogs, Twitter)

- Resellers and New Authors

- Print on Demand

- eBooks Read more »