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It's Got to be the *Right* Blog
July 2, 2008
New York, N.Y.
Everybody agrees: Blogging is a crucial tool for marketing books. It is from blogs that people first hear about books; it is through blogging that the potential reader's interest is aroused; and it is through blogging that the reader is ultimately seduced into purchasing the book, resulting in yet another $2.25 of income to the author.
What nobody tells you is this: It's not the author's blog that's important. The author's own blog is pretty much inconsequential. Nobody reads that thing, and really — why should they?
It's actually other people's blogs — and in particular Jeff Atwood's take on The Annotated Turing — that perform the magic feat of causing a book's Amazon.com sales rank to climb from ~20,000 to 368 throughout the course of a single day.
I'm sure the sales rank for The Annotated Turing will soon be back to normal, but meanwhile, thanks Jeff!
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Comments:
I preordered my copy of The Annotated Turing based on your blog. Don't give up!
— Bill, Thu, 3 Jul 2008 10:19:26 -0400 (EDT)
I decided to buy your book because I read it on Atwood's blog, and I discovered your blog in the same way, and I have many of your old books, but I didn't know about your blog. The problem is I have to wait a couple of weeks, because I'm in South America :(
— Eduardo Diaz, Thu, 3 Jul 2008 13:35:24 -0400 (EDT)
Like Martin Heller's, perhaps?
http://weblog.infoworld.com/stratdev/archives/2008/07/the_annotated_t.html
— Dennis Williamson, Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:38:03 -0400 (EDT)