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[A few days ago I came across Joel Friedlander's post - Getting Started with Scribd.com and passed it on to friends. One thing led to another and soon I was asking our in-house author Chetan Dhruve for his opinion. What he had to say would be of interest to most authors so, over to Chetan. [...]
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Scribd vs BookBuzzr: An author’s perspective
March 31st, 2010 
Posted in Book Marketing 
Tags: Book Marketing, BookBuzzr and Freado, boss, ChangeThis, Chetan Dhruve, dictator, Scribd 
3 Comments »BookBuzzr Interviews Myne Whitman – Author of ‘A HEART TO MEND’
March 29th, 2010 Nkem Akinsoto aka Myne Whitman is a Nigerian writer/editor based in Seattle, USA, and currently writes on her website mynewhitman. Her blog runs a web-based naija blogsville interactive story on www.mynewhitmanwrites.com. The blog started out with excerpts from a manuscript she was writing which she has now self-published via AuthorHouse. The author grew up during [...]
Posted in Author Interviews Tags: Author Interview, Book Marketing, BookBuzzr and Freado, fReado 4 Comments »Review: Conducting Twitter Contests by Tony Eldridge
March 26th, 2010 Phew! I’ve just gone through Tony Eldridge’s Conducting Twitter Contests and first reaction; Wow! It’s been a quick skim but I already know that I’m going to go back for more. Tony has used a novel way to present his topic; he uses text and video so, you can read; absorb, and then watch and [...]
Posted in Book Marketing Tags: Conducting Twitter Contests, contests, TONY ELDRIDGE, Twitter, twitter contest No Comments »Brand New Category: Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips
March 24th, 2010 It’s been a little over two months since we started the BookBuzzr blog. Our objective of creating this blog was to share marketing techniques, tips, books, authors, experts, etc. with our growing community of 4000+ authors and 9000+ Twitter followers. BookBuzzr was born in the mind of an author based on his needs. Since the [...]
BookBuzzr Interviews Author Ana Antunes
March 17th, 2010 Ana Antunes wrote poems and short-stories for an anthology by Mackenzie Publishing. She finished high school in “Translator and Interpreter in English” at Mackenzie Institute. She graduated in Arts with License in Artistic Education at the University in Sao Paulo (FAAP), in French at Alliance Francaise, and Ballet with honour in artistic merit. She performed [...]
Posted in Author Interviews Tags: Author Interview, Book Marketing, BookBuzzr and Freado, fReado 1 Comment »BookBuzzr Interviews Gary William Murning – Author of ‘If I Never’
March 10th, 2010 Gary is a novelist living in the northeast of England. His work, largely literary fiction, focuses on themes that touch us all — love, death, loss and aspiration — but always with an eye to finding an unusual angle or viewpoint. Quirky and highly readable, his writing aims to entertain first and foremost. If he [...]
Posted in Author Interviews Tags: Author Interview, Book Marketing, BookBuzzr and Freado, fReado, Twitter No Comments »A Delightful Email from Author Jim Musgrave
March 3rd, 2010 Today, we received an email from author Jim Musgrave who says, “Just a line or two to tell you that I sold four Kindle books and two paperback books in the first week I had them at BookBuzzr. That’s more marketing sales than I have ever had spending thousands of dollars on online campaigns and [...]
Posted in Book Marketing Tags: Author Interview, Author Promotion, Book Marketing, BookBuzzr and Freado No Comments »BookBuzzr Interviews Author Kaylin McFarren
March 3rd, 2010 Linda Yoshida, writing as Kaylin McFarren, minored in English in college and for the past twenty years has led PR/marketing efforts for several companies within her family’s international conglomerate. She is a wife and mother of three, and resides in Oregon. In addition to serving on numerous foundations and boards, she actively works with multi-published [...]
Posted in Author Interviews Tags: Author Interview, Book Marketing, Book Promotion, BookBuzzr and Freado 7 Comments »Team BookBuzzr celebrates Holi festival
March 2nd, 2010 Team BookBuzzr celebrated Holi – an Indian festival where friends smear color on each other. Here’s a sampling of the madness in our office yesterday!
