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FiledBy and Ingram Content Group Collaborate

January 05, 2011
FiledBy, the online directory of author listings and Web sites, has entered into an agreement with Ingram that will put FiledBy’s updated, author-generated book information into such databases such as Ingram’s iPage. Ingram will supply the data to more than 100,000 online and brick-and-mortar booksellers and libraries, and will also stream its book and author data to FiledBy for inclusion on the FiledBy site. The FiledByRegistry currently has more than four million author and book contributor listings. {..Read More..}

FiledBy and Ingram Content Group Collaborate

January 05, 2011
By David Hancock on January 05th, 2011 FiledBy and Ingram Content Group Collaborate FiledBy, the online directory of author listings and Web sites, has entered into an agreement with Ingram that will put FiledBy’s updated, author-generated book information into such databases such as Ingram’s iPage. Ingram will supply the data to more than 100,000 online and brick-and-mortar booksellers and libraries, and will also stream its book and author data to FiledBy for inclusion on the FiledBy site. The FiledByRegistry currently has more than four million author and book contributor listings. FiledBy and Ingram Content Group Collaborate. {..Read More..}

Shelf Awareness News

January 26, 2010
FiledBy, the online directory of authors, illustrators, photographers, editors, translators and other book contributors, has added 50 new category websites that include more than 3,000 BISAC code subcategories. Typical categories include business and economics, technology and engineering, gardening and more. {..Read More..}

FiledBy Launches 50 New Catagory Websites

January 25, 2010
FiledBy’s innovative category sites now provide a vertical view of authors and their work and further organize the activity of authors into the categories in which they publish. The new websites aggregate activity taking place on individual FiledBy author sites according to relevant categories and display the activity as authors and their collaborators customize their online presence with photographs, biographies, videos, podcasts, documents and links to other locations like blogs, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and custom author websites. {..Read More..}

FiledBy extends to Spanish language authors

January 21, 2010
The online directory of authors and book contributors, announced today that their free website service now extends to all Spanish language authors and collaborators of published books in North America as well as all books that have been imported into the U.S. or Canada. {..Read More..}

FiledBy: Ahora se habla

January 19, 2010
FiledBy, the online directory of authors and book contributors, announced today the portal now extends to cover Spanish-language authors and collaborators. {..Read More..}

FiledBy Adds Scribd Publishing Technology

November 19, 2009
Online author Web site directory FiledBy—which provides information on more than three million authors—has added a tech feature to its site from the online “social publishing company” Scribd. The new technology will allow FiledBy authors to use Scribd’s document reader to publish content on FiledBy and Scribd simultaneously. {..Read More..}

FiledBy Partners with Scribd

November 18, 2009
Nashville-based FiledBy, an online directory of authors, writers, illustrators, photographers and other book contributors, said today it's integrating Scribd Reader technology into the online toolset for authors and other creators. This will let registered FiledBy users use Scribd to publish documents on FiledBy and Scribd, simultaneously. {..Read More..}

FiledBy Inks Deal with Scribd

November 18, 2009
FiledBy has made another incredibly smart move and partnered up with Scribd. Both of these companies are truly outstanding in terms of the new revolution in publishing they are empowering. {..Read More..}

FiledBy Partners with Scribd to Integrate Document Reader Publishing Technology

November 18, 2009
Nashville, Tenn., November 18th, 2009 – FiledBy (www.filedby.com), the leading online directory of authors, writers, illustrators, photographers and other book contributors, today announced the integration of the Scribd Reader technology into the online toolset provided to its fast growing community of authors and other creators. {..Read More..}

Big Bad Weekly Tip: FiledBy.com Helps Authors Establish Their Online Presence

November 02, 2009
FiledBy, which says it’s the most comprehensive online marketing platform and directory of published author web pages on the Internet, is more than just another networking opportunity for writers and readers. FiledBy also helps authors by providing easy tools to host, link, and organize various marketing activities, as well as linking to online booksellers. Authors can claim their pre-assembled site and start using the basic features for free {..Read More..}

FiledBy Partners with StudioNow for Book Trailers

October 13, 2009
FiledBy CEO and president Peter Clifton acknowledged that producing commercial-quality video can be prohibitively expensive for authors, and that the alliance with StudioNow will “make on-location video shoots and custom book trailers more accessible and affordable. This will allow more authors, illustrators and book contributors to take advantage of the promotional power of the video medium,” he said. {..Read More..}

FiledBy Fleshes Out Offerings

October 12, 2009
FiledBy, the Web site that seeks to give authors a one-stop marketing platform, has teamed up with fellow Nashvillians StudioNow on video production services. {..Read More..}

FiledBy, StudioNow Pact

October 12, 2009
Two Nashville firms are collaborating: FiledBy, which provides author's web presence and other marketing support, announced it is teaming with StudioNow, which has a network of videographers and other creatives nationwide, to produce and upload videos for authors. {..Read More..}

Morgan James Publishing Taps FiledBy

September 12, 2009
"FiledBy has put together an incredibly effective community that enables authors to take control of their own content, sell their books, link to other sites and directly communicate with readers," said David Hancock, Founder of Morgan James. "It’s a dynamic marketing platform for any author looking for a no-cost, low-cost and effective web presence. In fact, I’m telling our authors all they need is their blog, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and FiledBy for an effective online presence." {..Read More..}

Cambridge University Press hooks up with FiledBy

September 09, 2009
Cambridge University Press and FiledBy are partnering to provide over 100 Cambridge authors with websites on the FiledBy marketing platform. Cambridge is the world’s largest and most prestigious university publisher with a program that encompasses virtually every academic discipline, including science, technology & medicine, humanities, social sciences, reference and general interest books, journals and electronic products. {..Read More..}

FiledBy finds traction in Cambridge

September 09, 2009
FiledBy, the publishing promotion portal launched this past spring by a veteran of Ingram Book, has hooked up with England’s Cambridge University to set up sites for more than 100 authors from its publishing arm. {..Read More..}

Morgan James Publishing Adds FiledBy as Online Author Marketing Platform

August 27, 2009
Morgan James Publishing, a leading publisher of business, self help and marketing books, announced today that they are now using FiledBy sites as an effective way to provide an online presence and digital marketing solution for their authors. The FiledBy platform enables authors, co-authors, illustrators, photographers, editors and other book contributors to easily build an online community where they can promote their work and interact with fans and peers. {..Read More..}

FiledBy Posts Over 180 Original Author Event Podcasts

August 07, 2009
FiledBy is collaborating with Authors on Tour - Live to post live author podcasts on individual author sites on FiledBy. The podcasts, which feature best-selling authors discussing and reading from their books, are recorded live at the Tattered Cover Book Store, a premiere independent bookstore with three locations in Colorado. {..Read More..}

Stengel invited to join FiledBy site for published writers and authors

July 28, 2009
With the 21 July 2009 release of A Welsh Hundred: Glimpses of Life in Wales, I'm pleased to report my new membership in the FiledBy online community for published writers and authors. Founded in the spring of 2009, FiledBy describes itself as “a digital marketing company providing membership sites, web tools and community building solutions to content creators - authors, writers, illustrators and photographers – and their fans." {..Read More..}

Authors like Seth Godin create website at FiledBy.com; You can too.

July 11, 2009
Are you an author, co-author, illustrator or photographer? Then this is the site for you. You can create your own profile webpage at FiledBy.com that will not only help you with search engine optimization and get links back to your own website, but you'll also have a very specifc profile to feature what you do and your specific content. Seth Godin has a biography page set up with all of his key links. {..Read More..}

FiledBy Launches Program to Assist Writers and Publishers

July 08, 2009
A little more than a month ago, FiledBy, a digital marketing company for the publishing industry, was launched. They provide Web-based tools to empower authors, writers, illustrators, photographers, and other content creators. The FiledBy platform enables these professionals to easily build an online community where they can promote their work and interact with their fans and peers. {..Read More..}

FiledBy Adds Pre-pub Feature

July 06, 2009
FiledBy, the Website that hosts author profiles, has added a new feature included in its Premium ($99/year) and Premium Plus ($399/year) membership levels. The new feature allows authors to build a pre-publication Web presence on FiledBy, allowing authors to set up an online marketing presence in advance of their book’s publication date. {..Read More..}

FiledBy Announces Pre-Pub Website Features

July 01, 2009
FiledBy (www.filedby.com) has added a new pre-publication website feature to its growing list of online marketing tools for authors. Writers publishing a new book now have a low cost, effective tool to pre-launch their book online. The new feature allows both first time and published authors to quickly and inexpensively build a pre-publication web presence on FiledBy. {..Read More..}

FiledBy - Online Marketing Platform for Authors

June 04, 2009
Chances are you haven't heard of FiledBy. When I read the email from the company, my first thought was - 'It's "Facebook for Writers!"', a site where published and unpublished writers can socialize, network and share non-plagiarizable ideas ... Here authors can create profiles, put up book signing dates, book reading dates and venues, blog and bookseller links and even promote their upcoming books. It's a pleasant concept. {..Read More..}

FiledBy offers free Web sites for authors and publishers

June 02, 2009
FiledBy Inc., a digital marketing services company, has announced the Beta launch of filedbyauthor at http://www.filedby.com. The site is an author-centric promotional platform that provides every author that has been published in the United States or Canada a free, hosted, e-commerce-enabled Web page. It currently hosts more than 1.8 million pre-assembled author Web pages and over seven million book titles. {..Read More..}

Virtual Reading Communities

June 01, 2009
Reader communities are a specialized type of social networking site where readers and authors network, and readers recommend books to others ... FiledBy is a new site that offers authors a page that they can enhance with a photo, bio, and links. Each author page also includes links to purchase books on major online bookstores. {..Read More..}

Add to Author’s Tool Box: filedby.com

May 28, 2009
FiledBy.com is the flagship site of FiledBy, Inc. and one of the most comprehensive online marketing platforms and directory of published author web pages on the Internet. Company co-founders Peter Clifton, former Ingram executive, and Mike Shatzkin, industry analyst, developed the site to provide authors with an inexpensive way to create a Web presence in an environment where publishers are looking to cut costs. {..Read More..}

FiledBy Expands Online Author Directory

May 26, 2009
Online resource FiledBy has expanded its online author directory, adding and linking together sites for coauthors, illustrators, artists, photographers and others who contributed to the publication of a book. The site included 1.8 million author sites in its directory before the latest expansion, which adds more than 1 million contributors whose efforts led to a published work. {..Read More..}

Smashwords starts new affiliate program

May 26, 2009
Received this press release from Smashwords. By the way, Mark Coker of Smashwords will doing an e-book session with Dan Poynter on Thursday morning, then participating in a luncheon keynote roundtable on ebooks Thursday with Lexcycle, Sony and others at the IBPA’s Publishing University. He will also be participating in Mike Shatzkin’s Friday morning session at BEA with BookOven, FiledBy and Cool-er Readers. {..Read More..}

Buzz: FiledBy

May 22, 2009
I've just been told about FiledBy, a new website for authors that seems pretty relevant to my readers. From now on, whenever I find a site that could be interesting, useful, or just fun for writers, I'll devote a mini-post to it here or tweet about it. If you have a writerly site you'd like to bring to my attention, Email me. I received a press release about FiledBy, so I'll let the creators of the site do the talking: {..Read More..}

Have you had a book published, or contributed to one?

May 20, 2009
Go to FiledBy.com to get a free FiledBy site for people who have contributed to the publication of a book. Contributors include co-authors, photographers, illustrators, editors, translators and others. The names are provided to FiledBy through their bibliographic data provider and publishers. If you’ve worked with a co-author, illustrator, photographer or another contributor and FiledBy have received their information through their data feeds, their names are most likely listed on your book pages. The book page will link to the contributor’s site, reflecting the book you worked on together as well as their own books. {..Read More..}

A Website for Authors

May 18, 2009
For all my readers that are already authors, there is a website I thought might be of interest to you. It's called FiledBy. This website provides authors with tools for digital marketing and building their online community of readers. It's also a way to connect with other authors. You can promote all of your publications, find other publications to read and review, and interact with other users. I have not signed up for the service yet, but there are three types membership: one free and two paid memberships. {..Read More..}

Beyond Her Book

May 18, 2009
From FiledBy.com:I wanted to tell you about a new website called FiledBy, the most comprehensive online marketing platform and directory of published author web sites on the internet. FiledBy launched in March 2009 with over 1.8 million author sites. The FiledBy platform enables authors, co-authors, illustrators, photographers, editors and other contributors to easily build an online community where they can promote their work and interact with fans and peers. {..Read More..}

FiledBy is Growing

May 18, 2009
It seems as if the author service, Filedby (why is everything one word on the net? Also, the press release says FiledBy, but the website says filedby, so I don’t know which is correct.) is growing. I received the following press release and thought our author/readers would be interested:FiledBy has expanded its online author directory (www.filedby.com) by adding and linking together sites for co-authors, illustrators, artists, photographers and others who contributed to the publication of a book. {..Read More..}

FiledBy.com Has Added a Feature That Makes it Easier for Writers

May 18, 2009
FiledBy.com (Shelf Awareness, May 18, 2009) has added a feature that makes it easier for writers publishing a new book to promote and market the book online before publication, something that many in the industry are doing earlier than ever. As FiledBy CEO and president Peter Clifton noted, "Bookselling experts agree that authors should start promoting a new book well before it arrives in bookselling channels to build interest, community and sales." {..Read More..}

FiledBy Builds a Base

May 18, 2009
FiledBy, Inc., launched in March by Peter Clifton and Mike Shatzkin, features FiledBy, a directory of authors, writers, illustrators, photographers, editors, translators and others who contribute to books. The authors and others can join for free and manage their own pages on the site, allowing them to create an online community where they can communicate with readers and each other. {..Read More..}

FiledBy – A New Marketing Tool For Authors

May 12, 2009
I’m always looking for new ways to get my name out there and get folks to read my fiction. Sometimes I don’t have to look too hard though – the information just finds it’s way to me. A representative of a new website named FiledBy.com emailed me and gave me a quick rundown of their service. I checked out their site and thought it might be useful to review what they do and pass it along. {..Read More..}

Every Author of a Home and Garden Book Now Provided with Free Website on the Largest Online Author Directory

May 12, 2009
FiledBy now provides every author of a home and garden book with a free site, which they can claim, enhance and use as a marketing and sales vehicle for their books and themselves. FiledBy’s more than 1.8 million author pages can integrate photographs, biographies, video, links, podcasts or PDF’s for free. Upgraded site tools are optional and include press kits, blog tools, event listings, promoting forthcoming books, resume tools and more. {..Read More..}

FiledBy launched in March with over 1.8 million pre-assembled author sites. It provides every published author in the US and Canada with a free, hosted, search engine optimized and e-commerce enabled

May 06, 2009
FiledBy launched in March with over 1.8 million pre-assembled author sites. It provides every published author in the US and Canada with a free, hosted, search engine optimized and e-commerce enabled site. Any published author can easily update and enhance their sites as well as individual books. FiledBy provides a central location in which authors can be easily found on the web and the tools in which to promote themselves and their books. {..Read More..}

The Perseus Books Group Adds FiledBy as Online Marketing Platform

May 05, 2009
The Perseus Books Group is using FiledBy sites as an effective way to provide an online presence and digital marketing solution for authors. FiledBy launched in March 2009. It is the only online community centered on authors and their work. The site features more than 1.8 author sites and 7.5+ million book pages. The FiledBy platform enables authors, co-authors, illustrators, photographers, editors and other contributors to easily build an online community where they can promote their work and interact with fans and peers. {..Read More..}

Vanguard Press to appear on FiledBy

May 04, 2009
It looks as if FiledBy is getting some traction. Here’s an excerpt from a press release I received from them. The Perseus imprint in question is Vanguard Press. The Perseus Books Group is using FiledBy sites as an effective way to provide an online presence and digital marketing solution for authors. {..Read More..}

Ingram veteran behind author aggregator site

April 25, 2009
Former Ingram executive Peter Clifton has teamed with publishing strategist Mike Schatzkin on filedbyauthor, a site that aims to become the default destination for promoting authors and their works. The site has pages ‘ready to be claimed and enhanced’ by the authors – here’s the page for Richard Florida, lover of Nashville and author of “Who’s Your City?” – and will make its money by charging for add-on marketing services. {..Read More..}

Find your favorite cookbook authors at Filedby.com

April 06, 2009
I just discovered a great new resource for cookbooks, or books of any genre. Filedby.com is a new site that lists authors from around the world and allows you to search by category or author to find the books you love! On filedby.com you can create your own profile, write reviews, and leave comments. Click the “Buy It” button and you will be redirected to the online bookseller of your choice (like Amazon and Borders). {..Read More..}

FiledBy - Connecting Authors and Readers

April 01, 2009
The truth behind FiledBy lies within Peter’s answer. In the modern age, when the attention of the audience is split between multiple vertical properties, between myriad social networks, personally cultivated blogs, and a constant stream of Twitter updates, it can be hard for an author to find a finger hold. FiledBy seems to wish to be that fingerhold – providing a means for an author to organize everything, and at the same time providing the reader with a road map of an author’s complete digital presence and a means to communicate with said author. {..Read More..}

FiledBy: Q&A with cofounders Peter Clifton and Mike Shatzkin

March 30, 2009
We’ve already shared basic impression of the site. Now, from FiledBy CEO Peter Clifton and his cofounder, Mike Shatzkin, here are replies to TeleRead’s e-mailed questions. Peter is a former executive at such companies as Ingram and Wiley, while Mike—he of the Einsteinian hair—runs the Idea Logical consulting firm. Mike’s also the author of baseball books. Written late last week, questions and answers are slightly edited. {..Read More..}

Filed By…Inspiration

March 27, 2009
Here’s what the Filedby people have to say, : The site is the first large-scale author-centric promotional platform to provide every author that has been published in the U.S. or Canada a free, hosted, ecommerce enabled web page ready to be claimed and enhanced. With more than 1.8 million pre-assembled author web pages and over 7 million book titles, filedbyauthor is the most complete site for finding and engaging with authors and their work. So come join me as I build my favorites list. Better yet, claim your author page and fill in some of the blanks. Think of it this way: you’re helping me goof off. It’s altruism! {..Read More..}

New Site Hosts 1.8 Million Author Web Pages

March 26, 2009
A new Web site that features 1.8 million author Web pages has been launched by FiledBy, Inc., a new company founded by former Ingram executive Peter Clifton and industry analyst Mike Shatzkin. FiledBy.com host Web pages that provides a brief biography and a list of works for all American and Canadian authors. Users can login and write reviews or make comments about authors. Authors, or their publishers, can update or link to the page. {..Read More..}

FiledBy - An Easy, New, Free Web Presence Option For Authors

March 26, 2009
Filedbyauthor is a new, free web service that promises to connect authors with readers and readers with books ... “We hope to level the web marketing playing field for all authors, eliminate some of the challenges authors face when designing their online presence, and help every author become more easily discoverable through a highly optimized site,” added Clifton. {..Read More..}

Local FiledBy startup asks authors to claim 1.8 million Webpages

March 25, 2009
In a release this morning, Founder, President and CEO Peter Clifton (left), an Ingram veteran, said the company has "more than 1.8 million pre-assembled author web pages and over 7 million book titles" already stored on the new site. In a subsequent interview with VNC today, Clifton explained that total pages on the site are "north of 9 million," with the compilation effort having been accomplished by a combination of automated data mining and hands-on work. {..Read More..}

FiledBy Launches Public Beta

March 25, 2009
After spending a number of months in private pre-beta, FiledByAuthor has moved into public beta format. The site, which aims to be "the first large-scale author-centric promotional platform to provide every author that has been published in the U.S. or Canada a free, hosted, ecommerce enabled web page," has more than 1.8 million pre-assembled author web pages and over 7 million book titles. "All authors, regardless of publishing category are encouraged to visit the site, claim their page, make corrections, and enrich them in a variety of ways," said Founder, President & C.E.O. Peter Clifton in the accompanying release. {..Read More..}

1.8 million author pages waiting to be filled on new Filedbyauthor site

March 25, 2009
F. Scott Fizgerald didn’t limit his art to his novels. He cared endlessly—at least at the start of his career—about how well they were selling and how readers perceived him. I suspect he’d regularly track his Amazon rankings if he were alive today. Real life became an extension of This Side of Paradise ... Now a new service is in beta. Formally announced today, Filedbyauthor is the creation of Ingram alum Peter Clifton and Mike Shatzkin—the publishing consultant and baseball writer famous for his outspokenness and Einsteinian hair. {..Read More..}

Filed By - Authors Connecting With Readers

March 24, 2009
What’s the problem that the new author marketing site created by Mike Shatzkin and Peter Clifton, filedby.com is trying to solve? Other online book community sites (Goodreads, LibraryThing, Indigo’s online community) do the reader to book connecting, and reader to reader connecting well. But FiledBy is proposing one more way to connect - reader to author and vice versa. {..Read More..}

Authors, Seize the Information!

March 24, 2009
FiledbyAuthor co-founder Peter Clifton reminds authors, “Once information is posted on the Web, it is largely difficult to control. We wanted to put some of that control in the author’s hands, so that they could determine what they wanted readers, the media and others to know about them.” The new comprehensive online directory of authors and their works launches this week. For more information about the FiledbyAuthor launch, download this press release (PDF). Click here to download a press release about FiledBy’s partnership with Perseus Books Group. {..Read More..}

Talking to the agents, and introducing Filedby

March 19, 2009
I also told the agents (and, because I did, I want to tell you) about a brand new business I’m involved in called Filedby which, I’m happy to say, is addressing the Long Tail question from another direction. Filedby is now live with a web page for 1.8 million authors — every single one with a live ISBN in the US or Canada. The pages, already mounted, are “claimable” by the authors, providing a big head start on a personalized web page that Filedby has provided largely through automation. We see an enormous opportunity in helping authors help themselves. There are a lot of them not getting much help from their publishers. {..Read More..}

Shatzkin with Agents and FiledBy

March 19, 2009
Mike Shatzkin who needs no introduction nor help from me for that matter had an interesting post today about a panel discussion he participated in on the future of publishing. Importantly, however he also announced that his new business FiledByAuthor is now live: This is the same phenomenon that has made it harder for new bands to break out for years: a kid today can still “discover” the Beatles or Bob Dylan and have dozens of songs to listen to and learn without any regard to what is “new”, because the Beatles and Dylan are new to them! {..Read More..}

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