Presentation on print-on-demand tools for writers and journalists at 2009 Gold Rush Writers workshop, Mokelumne Hill, Calif.. http://www.goldrushwriters.com/
Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median and Mode
"Lulu, where are you?" Self-publishing in the Digital Age
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2009 Gold Rush Writer's Conference
Mokelumne Hill, Calif.
May 1-3, 2009
Laptop 2:
“Lulu, where are you?”
Tom Johnson
Institute for Analytic Journalism
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Self-publishing in the Digital Age
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2009 Gold Rush Writer's Conference
Mokelumne Hill, Calif.
May 1-3, 2009
Laptop 2:
“Lulu, where are you?”
Tom Johnson
Institute for Analytic Journalism
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Self-publishing in the Digital Age
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Notes de l'éditeur
See The Kindle Revolution
Digital readers will save writers and publishing, even if they destroy the book business.
By Marion Maneker Posted Wednesday, March 4, 2009 - 12:36pm
http://tbm.thebigmoney.com/articles/saga/2009/03/04/kindle-revolution?page=0,1
Source:
Fenton, Howard. “Self-Publish or Perish? The Implications of Digital Book Production” Volume 7, Number 5 • The Seybold Report . http://www.seyboldreport.com/samples/TSR_Sample_BookPub.pdf The number of traditional publishers and the books they produce are in decline, while the number of self-publishing companies and books produced with the technology is on the rise. The strategies and technologies that are changing book production and distribution could also alter other forms of printing and publishing.
Sources:
Fenton, Howard. “Self-Publish or Perish? The Implications of Digital Book Production” Volume 7, Number 5 • The Seybold Report . http://www.seyboldreport.com/samples/TSR_Sample_BookPub.pdf The number of traditional publishers and the books they produce are in decline, while the number of self-publishing companies and books produced with the technology is on the rise. The strategies and technologies that are changing book production and distribution could also alter other forms of printing and publishing.
Sources:
Fenton, Howard. “Self-Publish or Perish? The Implications of Digital Book Production” Volume 7, Number 5 • The Seybold Report . http://www.seyboldreport.com/samples/TSR_Sample_BookPub.pdf The number of traditional publishers and the books they produce are in decline, while the number of self-publishing companies and books produced with the technology is on the rise. The strategies and technologies that are changing book production and distribution could also alter other forms of printing and publishing.
We commissioned a research team to analyse the title of every novel to have topped the hardback fiction section of the New York Times Bestseller List during the half-century from 1955 to 2004 and then compare them with the titles of a control group of less successful novels by the same authors.
The team, lead by British statistician Dr. Atai Winkler, then used the data gathered from a total of some 700 titles to create this "Lulu Titlescorer" a program able to predict the chances that any given title would produce a New York Times No. 1 bestseller.
The fruit of this work is presented here, in the form of the Lulu Titlescorer: a program that you can use to gauge the chances that your own title will deliver you a New York Times No. 1 bestseller.
THE LULU TITLESCORER "WEIRD TITLE CHALLENGE"
The Lulu Titlescorer is a useful tool, which, in Lulu's 50-year study of some 700 novels, proved 40% better than random guess-work in guessing whether a particular title had produced a bestseller or not. "It guessed right in nearly 70% of cases," says Dr Atai Winkler. "Given the nature of the data and the way tastes change, this is very good — better than we might have expected."
Even so, this is not an exact science. Far from it. In fact, Dr. Winkler advises that the Lulu Titlescorer should, in practice, always be combined with use of your own low-tech judgement.
This is because, for all the work that went it, the Lulu Titlescorer is capable of giving high scores to titles that most of us would rate as weird, if not terrible. Meanwhile, of course, it also gives low scores to the titles of novels (e.g. The Da Vinci Code) which, in fact, topped the New York Times bestseller list for long periods.