Both news items are scary for those who
care about book promotion and book sales.
At other times, I appreciate the democracy of the Internet and, particularly, its chief benefit for those of us who
care about book promotion opportunities: if the traditional media outlets are finding your book underwhelming, and they're not offering to interview you, then who care?
Not exact matches
The
promotion the trad pubs take
care of is the catalog and sales force to get your
books into the brick and mortar distribution channel, which indies don't worry
about.
There's too many
book promotion tweets on Twitter and they all look the same and we don't
care about any of them.
They all get the same
promotion so sales won't be affected one way or the other and the vast (vast) majority of readers not only don't
care about the publisher they don't even * know * who publishes the
book.