By Ed Pilkington on guardian.co.uk: In internet-savvy circles [Amanda Hocking] has been embraced as a figurehead of the digital publishing revolution that is seen as blowing up the traditional book world – or “legacy publishing” as its detractors call it – … Read more
By Mark on thewritersguidetoepublishing.com No, it’s not a trick question. Fact is, Amazon may not be selling your 99c ebook for 99c. It may well be selling your 99c ebook for $3.50, and pocketing most of the difference. For those of … Read more
By Nancy Fulda at nancyfulda.livejournal.com: When I made my first halting steps into kindle publishing, I was fortunate enough to stumble headlong into Maria Schneider, author of Catch an Honest Thief. She’s been treading the independent waters for years, and taught … Read more
By John C Abell on Wired: There are no two ways about it: E-books are here to stay. Unless something as remarkable as Japan’s reversion to the sword occurs, digital books are the 21st century successor to print. And yet the … Read more
In the final part of his report on this year’s London Book Fair Digital Conference, Alastair Horne considers the impact of mobile on the publishing industry. Read more
In Part 1 of his report on the London Book Fair Digital Conference, Alastair Horne discovers what we can learn about digital content and business models from those outside the publishing industry. Read more
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. Read more
In 2010, 28% of publishers reported skills gaps in their current workforce. Skillset brought together a panel of industry experts from publishing, TV, film and computer games at the London Book Fair to debate the issue and understand what can be learnt from other industries. Can we fill the skills gap and avoid a ‘Talent Time Bomb’? Read more
“Authors and readers are all that matter. Publishers will soon be irrelevant.” It was billed as The Great Debate – but has the discussion really moved on since last year? Read more
Many of you will know Kassia Krozser’s excellent Booksquare blog. Here she is talking to Mac Slocum at at O’Reilly Tools of Change on 14 February 2011 about the golden age of publishing – and how publishers and booksellers need … Read more
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