I'd also think that it is probably easier to be visible to this 3 % than to
other groups of readers.
Not exact matches
For all the reasons mentioned above, as well as many
others, most
readers will have trouble thinking
of these men as belonging to any kind
of group.
At training sessions, make a covenant with each lay
reader of the
group to read over the assigned or chosen text, become aware
of the issues, dialogue with it in a journal or notebook, then become prepared to «teach» that text to
other members
of the
group.
(So that when you read a news story, for instance, you might also get a composite assessment value that was assigned directly from
other readers without them ever having to express such assessment via speaking, writing, etc. if a
group of people are on the scene
of some event covered by the news, then obviously there would be great value in knowing some directly transferred assessment values from their brains, rather than what today we get as a summary from a few reporters plus maybe a few witnesses that still have to express what they saw.)
I realize this may not be clear or meaninful to some
readers and I can't take the space here to go into it
other than to say that a good segment
of biblical scholarship for a couple decades at least, has properly broadened its pursuits in an interdisciplinary manner, into probing for better understandings
of the nature and formative, growth processes
of the earliest
groups of Jesus followers and how they ultimately became Jewish Christian
groups, or started as mixed Jewish / Gentile
groups (as via Paul, et al.).
People generally expressed concern about the food dye issue as well as
other aspects
of our food supply which may be unsafe, and I shared with the
group some resources I've recently learned about — first, a link to Natural Candy Store.com (which, coincidentally, I found out about from Jenna herself via Twitter) as well as a mobile phone app created by CSPI to help consumers sort through additives on food labels (shared with me by a TLT
reader and fellow Houston School Health Advisory Council Member — thanks, Mike!)
The
reader will find that some
of the topics are covered by more than one
group of authors and complement each
other.
One
of my
readers actually mentioned starting a Facebook accountability
group to keep each
other motivated on those early mornings, so I took a poll to see if anyone would actually be interested, and turns out over 400 +
of you are!
Roland Fryer Answers
Reader Questions About His Police Force Study New York Times, 7/12/16 «My sincere hope is that the type
of analysis being done in our paper will lead
other police departments and community
groups to understand the types
of data we need to answer these important questions and work together to be more transparent and make that data public.»
Conclusions Children who entered first grade with the weakest knowledge
of the alphabet, phonemic awareness, and
other early literacy foundations were most likely to be on - grade - level
readers at the end
of first grade if they were in a reading
group which had a structured phonics format until February and in which a «no nonsense» approach to discipline was taken.
Teach phonics and
other foundational reading skills to small
groups of beginning
readers with Read Naturally GATE's explicit reading instruction.
One teacher may be conferring with a student about his or her reading;
other students do partner reading
of a
readers» theater text, and a second
group is rewriting a children's book by breaking up text into manageable chunks.
Writers, publishers, and
readers exist in a feedback loop — and when the standards
of one
group suffer, the
other two decline, too.
To the credit
of the authors who created these
groups, they generously allow their authors to promo
other books, and we try to give exclusive giveaways back to their
readers in return.
Many
others will give away copies to a
group of beta
readers and book reviewers to build up a number
of book reviews, and start the marketing wheels turning.
Hi!I am Siddharth Satpathy a 15 year old and an enthusiastic Harry Potter fan like most
other children
of my age
group who have read the book.The book is indeed a most enthralling one and has been much more than successfull in securing its well deserved place in the heart
of its
readers.This book written about the magical world has cast a sort
of magic on its
readers and deserves a most fitting tribute.
But like
other US publishing
groups, the firm is suffering from a steep decline in print advertising revenue, falling circulation and the migration
of readers to free news online.
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Reader Group and receive three FREE BOOKS and a monthly newsletter full
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Some demographic
groups are more likely than
others to be digital - only book
readers, but in general this behavior is relatively rare across a wide range
of demographics.
And these 16 - 17 year - olds also led all
other age
groups in borrowing books, especially print books: 65 %
of high schoolers who read a print book in the past year had checked one out from a public library in that time period, compared with 48 %
of all print
readers.
Of the three (overlapping)
groups, audiobook listeners have the most diverse reading habits, while relatively fewer print
readers consume books in
other formats:
And while a plurality
of college - aged
readers (ages 18 - 24) purchased the last book they read, they are still more likely than many
other age
groups to have borrowed the last book they read from a friend.
Leafmarks — Leafmarks is a place where you can keep track
of what you've read, review books, organize your books in shelves, express yourself openly and creatively, and engage in
group discussions with
other readers.
Ronny Golan from BookPulse also spoke in the following video about the educational ramifications
of such a capability, affording
readers the opportunity to embed the comments and study notes
of others into the book, as well as the opportunity for book clubs and reading
groups to participate in the enjoyment
of the text.
Your job is to find the communities, blogs, forums, Twitter users, Facebook users,
groups, societies, and any
other group of potential
readers in your content niche.
The freedom to evolve a book «brand,» interact with
readers directly, and control every aspect
of the creative process — while still endowing that brand with a sense that it was a huge,
group effort, with lots
of (monetary) support from its editors, PR - people, and
other mysterious higher - ups who make the literary world go round?
Myself and a
group of Soul Mate Publishing Authors are taking part in a «Spring for Love» blog hop where you, our lovely
readers, can win amazing prizes (like, we're talking a $ 50 Amazon gift card and free books among
other things).
If you're not part
of any
groups on Facebook, G +, LinkedIn, and Goodreads, you're missing out on golden opportunities for networking and well as indirect book marketing — not only with
other authors, but with
readers, book bloggers, and book reviewers — influencers — as well.
This «app» has been created by a computer programmer and allows the user to read your book with it's own eBook
reader included as either part
of the application itself, or perhaps it may be
grouped together with a customized eReader «
reader» application from a vendor
other than Apple.
Not All Characters Deserve to be in the Story by Mooderino on Moody Writing 5 Common Writing Blunders that Can Annoy or Bore Our
Readers by Kristen Lamb Tools for Writers Part 1 by Annie Neugebauer Flip the Script: Use Adverbs Fearlessly by Jael McHenryat on Writer Unboxed My Favorite Writing Advice — Trust the Story by Shelli Johnson Rules
of Storytelling, Part One by Tabitha Olsonat on Writer Musings Going Both Ways: Outlines for Plot, Pantser for Character on The Otherside
of the Story with Janice Hardy Book Series — A Whole
Other Food
Group by Lynn Price
I'm hoping this new book surprises me and really does well in a few categories I haven't written as much in yet, bringing a new
group of readers to my
other books.
Because my agent's 25 years
of editorial experience in publishing adds a level
of input that, quite frankly, none
of my
other beta
readers can match (and they are an amazing
group of people whose input I value enormously).
Have you forgotten the calls for
readers to give up on reading books by men — or non-people
of color or
other so - called marginalized
groups — for a year?
In the near future we might see novels that connect
readers with
other people reading them as well as creating live conversations with
groups of users and authors
of the novels.
Cool
Reader is an ambitious e-
reader with a text - to - speech feature that none
of the
other programs offers for free, but it's not the most sophisticated app
of the
group.
However, 99c alone isn't a discovery mechanism — not anymore — so you need to combine it with something else, like an ad with one
of the big
reader sites, or a
group promotion with a bunch
of other authors (or, for best results, both).
Use both new media and traditional marketing methods: blog, send press releases, be active on Facebook and
other social media, speak to local
groups, do radio interviews, and take advantage
of every opportunity you can to get in front
of potential
readers.
You can, in conjunction with
others (trusted beta
readers, a good editor, a critique
group) assess your strengths and weaknesses in each
of these areas.
As one member (and TWL
reader) Suzanne Brazil says
of the
group, «They have an active Twitter presence, publish helpful essays, support each
other's blogs and author pages and are generally just a great place for technical questions, writing advice, and encouragement!
If we consider these
readers and
other «not sensitive to the price
of the book»
readers, there should, in theory, be a large
group of readers that are price - insensitive.
I also find some books through
other sources, such as Amazon, BookBub (and
other mailing lists), Facebook (e.g. the Avid
Readers of Christian Fiction
group), Goodreads (what my friends are reading and reviewing), and through author email lists (perhaps that's a topic for another week).
Kindle sales to the core
group of Kindle owners and regular book buyers should be mostly unaffected — On the
other hand, Amazon's Kindle sales to casual
readers and the revenue stream from Kindle book sales (to casual and hardcore
readers) are in massive danger.
I do belong to a number
of writers
groups, we share blog posts, Tweets, blog about each
other's work... I must say so far it hasn't worked too well for me, as part
of the issue seems to be that we locate many authors, follow authors and authors join our
groups, and we seem to have more difficulty locating
readers.
Illuminating, but also a lesson in how to take everything with a grain
of salt and try to connect with MY
readers, not some
other group.
My own guess, based on watching my sales profile over the years, is that print, eBook and audiobook do not inherently cannibalize each
others» sales — it seems to me that for each there is a class
of reader that is «native» to each — that is, there is a
group of readers who strongly prefers print over eBook or audio, another
group who prefers eBook strongly to the
other formats, and a third
group (correlated, I imagine, with people who have long commutes) who strongly prefer audiobook.
Four
other books were finalists for the award: «Sex & Violence,» written by Carrie Mesrobian and published by Carolrhoda LAB, an imprint
of Lerner Publishing
Group; «Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets,» written by Evan Roskos and published by Houghton Mifflin, an imprint
of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company; «Belle Epoque,» written by Elizabeth Ross and published by Delacorte Books for Young
Readers, an imprint
of Random House Children's Books; and «In the Shadow
of Blackbirds,» written by Cat Winters and published by Amulet Books, an imprint
of ABRAMS.
At Jellybooks we are launching just such a model (Project «Pineapple») in the form
of social
group buying based on users past reading behaviour which rewards
readers with discounts for sharing recommendations and buying books with
others.
Unsurprisingly, the ebook
reader group reported feeling less tired in the evening, but they also reported that they felt more tired in the morning, despite having the same duration
of sleep as the
other group.
It is based on my experience
of such reading, several hours a week — not on a focus
group or phone research or even talking with
other people about how ebook
readers have changed them from thinking
of themselves as «lovers
of books» into thinking
of themselves as «lovers
of reading,» as it has me.
In the UK store a fake reviewer hit me and a
group of other books with a one star on the same day and identical ambiguous review «rubbish» and amazon stated each
reader is entitled to an opinion.