With their sights always set on the next big game changer, Jim and Bryan took on the latest in publishing news. After thanking their latest patron Ladey Adey (and her book Unfrozen http://www.ladeyadey.com/author/ ), the dynamic duo covered tips on indie promo sites, digital publishing pitfalls, and Audible’s new gifting feature. Stories included a crowdsourced sci-fi novel, one publisher’s argument for gatekeepers, the Amazon ebook giveaway system, publisher contract terms, BookExpo America, and Goodreads’ new deal site. This week’s Question of the Week: Will Goodreads Deals overtake BookBub as the #1 author email marketing service? Why or why not?

What You’ll Learn:

• How to research indie promo site results
• How to avoid common digital publishing pitfalls
• One way to send free Audible copies to your entire list
• Why Jim thinks crowdsourced books will be hard to come by
• What Jim and Bryan have to say about the “need for gatekeepers”
• Why authors shouldn’t expect a sales rank boost from giveaways
• What trad pub is doing to keep shooting itself in the foot
• What worked and didn’t work about the recent BEA
• What Goodreads Deals will have to do to overtake BookBub

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Question of the Week: Will Goodreads Deals overtake BookBub as the #1 author email marketing service? Why or why not?