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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Gatekeepers Post Launches a New Social
Media Book Publishing Community
Author and media
personality, Jeff Rivera launches The
Gatekeepers Post, a new social media
community intended to make a significant
impact on the conversation of book
publishing.
With the decline in print book sales, the
increase of eBooks, the rapid closing of
independent bookstores and the boom in young
adult fiction, the world of book publishing
is experiencing a flux few could have
anticipated even five years ago.
Industry outlets have struggled to keep pace
with the new developments in publishing but
the changes are happening too fast for
anyone to cover it all. The industry and
public's insatiable appetite for fresh news
on the rapid changes has only increased.
The Gatekeepers Post hopes to satisfy that
appetite. A cross between Huffington Post
and Publishers Weekly, the outlet features
some of the most important and respected
voices in book publishing.
Joined by an editorial advisory board that
includes the likes of print and online
magazine editor Neal Boulton; TechSavvy
high-tech consulting CEO Scott Steinberg;
New York Times bestselling author and
Publisher, Zane; Planned TV Arts’ Rick
Frishman; Editor-in-Chief of Publishing
Perspectives Ed Nawotka; Smashwords’ Mark
Coker; Thomas Dunne Book’s Brendan Deneen;
eReads.com publisher and veteran literary
agent Richard Curtis; Editor-in-Chief of
Gawker.tv Richard Blakeley; former Writers
Digest Books Editor-at-Large Jane Friedman;
Authorpreneur Joe Konrath; and Hachette’s
Director of Multicultural Publicity Linda
Duggins. The new outlet also features
Gatekeepers bloggers that site founder and
Editor-in-Chief Jeff Rivera personally
handpicked.
"The support from the industry has been
overwhelming," says Rivera, "I'm proud of
the high caliber of Gatekeepers and guest
bloggers who'll be joining us." Veteran
agents, major editors, librarians,
publishers, publicists and authors such as
New York Times bestseller Alisa Valdes
Rodriguez will be lending their voice to the
community as well. Book publishing heavy
weights such as Andrea Barzvi of ICM, Keith
Ogorek of Author Solutions, Harvey Klinger
of the Harvey Klinger Agency, Bill Gladstone
of Waterside Productions, Glenn Yeffeth of
BenBella Books, Steve Wilson CEO of Fast
Pencil and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein of Gotham
Group have also joined.
A steady stream of book-centric reviews,
headlining news, articles, and op-ed pieces,
will be incorporated within the outlet along
with forthcoming special events such as
virtual panel discussions and online
conferences.
Gatekeepers Post officially launched on
February 1, 2011 at midnight.
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