Simon & Schuster Steps Into Self-Publishing
By Leslie Kaufman at nytimes.com: Simon & Schuster is testing the water in the booming…
By Leslie Kaufman at nytimes.com: Simon & Schuster is testing the water in the booming…
By Suw Charman-Anderson at forbes.com: After the fake reviews furore of September died down, we…
By Shiv Malik at guardian.co.uk: Amazon.co.uk has said that sales of its Kindle ebooks are now…
By Suw Charman-Anderson at forbes.com: Smashwords, the self-publishing platform that allows authors to reach all the major…
By Catherine Ryan Howard at catherynryanhoward.com: If you haven’t already heard, there was a bit…
That perennial question: What is the future of publishing? Nick Morgan at forbes.com [12 Jul 12]…
By Ed Pilkington on guardian.co.uk: In internet-savvy circles [Amanda Hocking] has been embraced as a figurehead…
By Mark on thewritersguidetoepublishing.com No, it’s not a trick question. Fact is, Amazon may not be…
By Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg in The Wall Street Journal: In a feat that even the…
Today, authors have an amazing advantage. Not only are there millions of bloggers whose collective audience is larger and more engaged than that of the traditional press, there are also millions of consumers who are one click away from sharing your work with their friends on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Power to the people!
If you can make it easy for people to share and get excited about your book, you won’t need to spend big bucks or hope you make the list of some old newspaper that no-one really reads anymore.
By Nancy Fulda at nancyfulda.livejournal.com: When I made my first halting steps into kindle publishing, I…
By Piotr Kowalczyk on Password Incorrect: The price of a book is what really matters…
By John C Abell on Wired: There are no two ways about it: E-books are…
Today’s authors have started to catch on to the fact that they no longer have…
By Cory Doctorow in The Guardian: In the physical realm, there’s real danger in taking a good without paying for it (you might be arrested and sent to jail); in the digital realm, that danger is much lower. So much lower, in fact, that the majority of media that changes hands online does so for free and without authorisation.
Is it easy to approach big name publishers with your passion project? Nope. The attitude of big publishers with a brand name has not changed a bit in decades. But their clout over what gets published is eroding fast, all thanks to the new publisher in town. You!
Many of you will know Kassia Krozser’s excellent Booksquare blog. Here she is talking to…
By Mike Elgan at computerworld.com: The book publishing industry is in trouble. Book sales are declining,…
By Stephen Page on Guardian Books Blog: As the 2010 Frankfurt book fair opens, publishers…
By Beth Barany on writersfunzone.com: Many authors think they need a traditional publisher to succeed…
By Jody Hedlund on jodyhedlund.blogspot.com: At some point in our writing careers, most of us will…
By Matt Jones on BERG Blog: The very term “digital magazine” smacks of “horseless carriage”,…
By Philip Goldberg in The Huffington Post: Recently, Newsweek ran an article about the brave…
By Seth Godin on Seth Godin’s Blog: Authors need publishers because they need a customer.…