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. New writers may also join the site and promote themselves and their books whether they work with an established publisher or self publish. The full press release is here....

Looks as if FiledBy is getting some more traction in the market. This is from a press release I received from them: 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. The companies started working together before the FiledBy platform launched in the spring of 2009. A pilot program was designed to register...

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. “The contribution of illustrators, photographers, artists and many other creators are important to the publication of books in a wide range of formats...