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About Janet

Janet Spavlik is editor-in-chief of Book Business magazine and editor of the e-newsletter Book Business Extra, which reaches thousands of publishing industry executives. She also is contributing editor for Publishing Executive magazine.

Previously, she was a staff editor and writer for The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J., and also held positions as managing editor of book production for Information Today Inc. and production editor for W.B. Saunders Co. (now Elsevier). In June 2007, Spavlik published her first book, "Images of America: Collingswood," with Arcadia Publishing. She is a graduate of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J.

E-mail her at jspavlik@napco.com. Follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/janetmspavlik.

 

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Confessions of a Twitter Contest Addict: What You Can Learn From My Addiction

By Janet Spavlik | Posted on June 15, 2010
Hello, my name is Janet. And I am addicted to Twitter contests.

I swear I haven't always been this way. Sure, I'd entered a contest here and there if the prize was particularly enticing (I really wanted that all-expenses-paid trip to the Super Bowl that one year), but I always was the stereotypical “I never win anything” type. I equated entry forms with lost causes, and therefore, generally avoided them. Why waste my time?  Read More >>

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Not Yet Sold on the iPad

By Janet Spavlik | Posted on April 30, 2010
Shortly after I became the proud owner of a Barnes & Noble Nook, rumors started intensifying that Apple was on the verge of releasing a tablet computer that quite possibly could make my e-reader (and all the others like it) seem as antiquated as the Brother word processor I used back in college. I was disheartened. I had invested a significant amount of time researching e-reading devices before deciding on the Nook. Now, I had barely opened the packaging on my new toy, and something even...  Read More >>

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Amazon Exclusivity Deals: Who Wins?

By Janet Spavlik | Posted on March 26, 2010
It seems every week I receive a press release or read a news article about a new e-book exclusivity agreement an author has struck with Amazon. This week, it was best-selling science fiction author F. Paul Wilson.

According to the press release I received from Amazon, Wilson has made five of his books available in the Kindle Store exclusively for one year using Amazon's e-book self-publishing tool, Digital Text Platform.  Read More >>

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Publishers Want to Charge More for E-books ... But Will Consumers Pay It?

By Janet Spavlik | Posted on March 12, 2010
I just returned from an incredible vacation to Colorado. It was the first time I traveled with my Nook, which, of course, is one of the great benefits of an e-reader—it’s portability. I tend to be a, shall we say, slightly heavy packer (OK, I’ll admit it, my suitcase was just shy of 50 lbs., but I still contend that every one of those pairs of shoes was essential), so it was a relief not to have to lug one or two cumbersome print books along, too. And from my admittedly limited, ...  Read More >>

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'Flawless' Campaign: Bringing Sexy Marketing Back?

By Janet Spavlik | Posted on February 26, 2010
Quite honestly, as a consumer, I rarely see a marketing campaign for a book that excites me, or gets people talking. I understand that book publishers generally don't have the marketing budgets to support big, splashy campaigns for a single title, but as a book lover, it's difficult to see the launch of so many great books often met with a collective yawn from the general public.  Read More >>

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