Nashville, Tenn., March 30, 2010 – FiledBy (www.filedby.com), the leading online directory of authors and contributors, today announced the launch of various new features and functionality available on author websites as well as across the FiledBy site.

Twitter posts can now easily be streamed directly to FiledBy author sites, providing a seamless integration of the two platforms. Available with a Premium membership, FiledBy authors can configure this new functionality through their account administration page in just a few simple steps.

Thousands of Sub-Category Pages Also Deployed Providing a Unique Organization of Authors, Contributors and Their Books

Nashville, Tenn., January 25, 2010 – FiledBy (www.filedby.com), the leading online directory of authors, writers, illustrators, photographers, editors, translators and other book contributors, today announced a significant expansion of its online platform into fifty main category websites (http://www.filedby.com/categories/), which include more than three thousand sub-categories organized by the book industry BISAC code structure. Information about authors, contributors and books published or imported into North America has been indexed, linked together and organized into the new category sites for easy search and discovery. This first-time-ever organization of authors by the categories in which they publish will facilitate a wide range of connections among authors and their readers.

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. Authors and contributors can locate their work, register with FiledBy, claim a pre-assembled website that already includes all of an author’s work and build an effective online marketing platform with easy to use tools. And now that the aggregation of author-related activity is arranged by subject category, FiledBy becomes an even more compelling place for an author to bring and share audiences.

“We launched FiledBy nine months ago based on the vision that discoverability of books and authors has changed forever due to the impact of the Internet and search,” said Peter Clifton, co-founder and CEO of FiledBy. “We wanted to provide tools that authors and their creative partners could use to easily collect and present authoritative information about themselves and focus on their overall social marketing efforts. To accomplish this, we had to first organize a vast amount of information around the people who create books, rather than simply display the books themselves. Now that information is also available through our category websites.”

“Being able to control, customize and extend this information easily is of increasing value to authors, their collaborative partners and publishers in a world where search dominates discovery and the delivery of digital content intersects with existing information about print books,” said Clifton.

Nashville, Tenn., January 19, 2010 – FiledBy (www.filedby.com), the largest 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 FiledBy website provides easy access to authors and their co-creators in a single location. The websites are pre-assembled with an author’s work including the associated editions and are linked to sites for co-creators who may have collaborated with the author on a particular book. FiledBy makes it easy for authors and creators to engage with their sites and customize them by adding a photo, biography, video, podcasts and documents as well as utilize community-building tools.

FiledBy Author Websites Now Enabled with Scribd for Seamless Document Sharing and Social Publishing

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. Scribd (www.scribd.com) the largest social publishing company in the world, facilitates the creation and distribution of web documents that allow anyone to share written materials easily over the Internet.  As a result of the agreement, all authors and other book contributors who register and claim their FiledBy site can utilize Scribd’s document reader to publish documents on FiledBy and Scribd simultaneously.

“We integrated Scribd’s technology on FiledBy sites to provide a more powerful, extensible and integrated document viewing platform that can support many file types, improve discoverability and broaden exposure for authors and others on FiledBy,” said Peter Clifton, CEO and co-founder, FiledBy. “This integration also establishes a framework for our authors to engage in social publishing and empowers them with another state of the art way to promote themselves and their work. For authors looking to expand their reach and build their marketing platform online, document posting and sharing on FiledBy and Scribd is a very powerful connection.”

High Quality, Cost Effective Video Creation Now Part of Online Book Marketing Solution Available at FiledBy

Nashville, Tenn., October 6, 2009 – FiledBy (www.filedby.com), the largest online directory of author websites and a provider of digital marketing services for authors, illustrators, photographers and other book contributors, today announced a partnership with StudioNow (www.studionow.com), a leading provider of online video production, asset management and syndication services.  As a result of the agreement, FiledBy will offer Video Book Trailer, Children’s Video Book Trailer and on-location Author Profile Interview video content creation services to enable authors to effectively and economically market themselves and their books online.

Utilizing StudioNow’s worldwide network of video professionals, videos and interviews can be shot on-location in professional studios or at an author’s preferred location anywhere in the U.S., Canada or internationally. The simple and customizable production process enables quick, easy and affordable creative work for sharing of a video on FiledBy as well as one on multiple other sites including an author’s website, popular social networking sites, online video sharing platforms and online retailer sites.