Abe Books
Extraordinary Canadian site linking network of 10,000 booksellers of
rare, secondhand and out-of-print books internationally. English,
French and German sites give access to over 40 million titles.
Booksellers pay subscription based on number of titles for the online
capability of selling their books anywhere in the world. www.abebooks.com
Andrea Semple
Rather cheeky but entertaining author's site which carries authors'
interviews and a tongue-in-cheek list of what those agents' rejection
letters really mean. http://www.andreasemple.com/index.htm
Avon Romance
Useful submission guidelines for romance writers on the publisher's corporate
site. www.HarperCollins.com
Book Promotion Newsletter
A free biweekly interactive newsletter on book marketing is offered by
Francine Silverman, the author of Book Marketing from A -Z.
The site has a vast number of testimonials and offers helpful tips to
anyone trying to sell their own book.
www.bookpromotionnewsletter.com
Books on shelves
New website which aims, endearingly,'to provide virtual shelf space for
all the less well known writers and independent, small publishers of the
world'. Charges £20 ($37) per title per year. Rather whimsical in approach
but worth watching.
Booktaste
Just starting out and currently with little material on it, this site
is dedicated to providing a free service to help small press publishers
and self-publishers to promote and sell their books online and
internationally.
www.booktaste.com
Characterisation Tool for Novelists
The P4 Personality Mapping tool claims to provide you with a new and
unique method of assessing people's personality types so you can better
understand and communicate with them — whether colleagues, family or
friends. For fiction writers it offers you a new way of creating realistic
characters to fulfill specific plot roles. Not for everyone, but an
interesting idea:
http://www.synergise.com/p4/index.htm?
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DIY Publishing
Online fee-paying publishing site which offers opportunity to put your
work on the Internet at a price you choose. You then pay a handling
charge on sales from the site. www.diypublishing.com
Dover Publications
Rather unusual American publisher's site which has made a real success
at selling its low-priced books online, with 2 million visitors in its
first year. http://www.store.doverpublications.com
Create Your Screenplay
Barry Pearson, credited writer on 8 feature films and many TV scripts,
offers free resources, including over 100 articles, seminars,
assessment services and his e-book, It's all about the Story. www.createyourscreenplay.com
Cyber Read
Online publisher and bookstore featuring wide range of e-books
published on site for sale for range of reader devices. http://cyberread.com/mobishop/index.php
Sell your book
alongside Bestsellers
Online bookshop which works likes an airport or train station bookshop,
encouraging impulse purchases from their 4-book bookshelves. For an
annual fee it offers self-publishers guaranteed exposure of their book for
a year as part of a random display in which their book is placed on the
shelf with a bestseller..
www.synergise.com/books
Ebooks
Digital bookstore selling wide range of ebooks in 50 categories from Hildegard
of Bingen to How to Write a Dirty Story and showing how the
range of ebooks available is growing. http://www.ebooks.com/
e-reads
E-publishing site set up by American literary agent to publish and sell
e-books, with a focus on genre fiction. www.e-reads.com
Facet Publishing
New name for Library Association Publishing, this offers a range of
books for the information technology market, including
the United Kingdom
and the Republic of Ireland with 3,000 libraries. www.facetpublishing.co.uk
The Good Book Guide
High quality subscription-only UK-based international book service
which carries a wide range of recommended and reviewed titles. www.thegoodbookguide.com
Heartline Books
Crisp and well-presented site from new UK romance publisher which
brings a breath of fresh air to romance writing. Information for
writers and sales site. www.heartlinebooks.com
Institute of Copywriting
Crisply presented website for UK commercial organisation which offers a
training course and tips about copywriting.
http://www.inst.org/copy/
Kendrake Children's Bookshop
Well-respected bookshop in Sutton, Surrey, UK which specialises in
children's titles across the board and teachers' resource books.
www.kendrakebooks.co.uk
King printing
Short-run book printer operating in the US. www.kingprinting.com
which also has self-publishing site, www.adibooks.com
with online quote facility.
Lights
Handy site which provides links to 7,500 US publishers' sites and
online catalogues. www.lights.com/publisher/
Penn Group Professional Writing Service
Ghostwriter service provided by smart professional firm operating
out of New York City. As well as ghostwriting, there are a number of
useful articles on working with a ghostwriter.
www.pegr.com/index.html
Poetry Bookshop Online
Ambitious online bookselling site, set up by the Poetry Book
Society, which offers over 30,000 poetry titles available in the UK and
news, updates and information about poetry.
www.poetrybookshoponline.com
Science Fiction Weekly
Science fiction and fantasy site offering news and interviews from the
more popular end of the spectrum. http://www.scifi.com/sfw/
Short Talk
New website offering paid-for downloads of short stories by classic
authors, plus the chance to submit your own work to go on the site.
Worth persisting through the rather
annoying Flash intro.
http://www.shortalk.co.uk
Tangled Web UK
Extraordinarily complete listing of all new books published in the UK
in the genres of crime, mystery, horror and fantasy, together with
descriptions of the books, author profiles and lists of titles.
A joy for any fan.
http://www.twbooks.co.uk/index.html
Affiliated with the newsletter Children’s Book Insider, this US site
offers tips for beginners to children’s writing at
http://www.write4kids.com/
Ebook sold online providing access to nearly 1500 paying US markets for
$10 (around £5). It only lists those which pay a minimum of ten
cents (5p) a word, five cents (2.5p) for Fiction.
www.writersmarketguide.com/index.html
