I suppose it had to happen. Well, following Amazon’s ‘hand of god’ reaching into the homes of Kindle owners last week to take back ebook copies of George Orwell’s ‘1984’ and ‘Animal Farm’, the Seattlepi.com website reports yesterday that the first case of someone filing a class-action lawsuit against Amazon in the US District Court […]
This year’s Man Booker Fiction Award longlist has been released and features just one book published by an independent publisher, Sarah Hall’s ‘How to Paint a Dead Man’ (Faber). Random House and Penguin have done particularly well with five and three books respectively, although Penguin’s three books featured include a first from their Penguin Ireland […]
Salt Publishing is an English based independent publishing company I have a lot of time for. With continuing recessionary cut backs, they had their arts council grant cancelled and that has made trading difficult to say the least in 2009. They launched a ‘Buy Just One Book, Right Now’ campaign in May and while this […]
Time for a bit of fun? Ever wondered how an author can evaluate if what they write is truly publishable? Well, Editorial Anonymous think they have the answer with their Publishometer as part of their posting ‘How To Tell Whether a Manuscript Will Be Acquired’. Have a look and see how you score, whether you […]
UPDATE NOVEMBER, 2009. Booksurge has now merged under the CreateSpace brand.Announcement news. Related articles Amazon Japan Launches Print-On-Demand Program for Publishers (mickrooney.blogspot.com) to self-publish or not self-publish (victoryates.wordpress.com) Create Space Helps First Time Authors Like Taren Wilson The Writer of Novel,The Life Of Mouse. – (takingonacause.com) Amazon Announce Breakthrough Novel Award Finalists (mickrooney.blogspot.com) Abbott Press […]
Recently I’ve been spending quite a bit of time looking at UK and US based independent and small press publishers in the hopes of placing my last completed novel ‘Trees’. One of the biggest challenges for any author is finding the right publisher for their work. Often the strength of an independent publisher is that […]
Fresh on the heels of Barnes & Noble announcing the launch of an ebook stores, Blackwell, the UK retailer and publisher has also entered the on line ebook sales market. Blackwell will offer 45,000 titles for its customers to download directly to their own BeBook reader which supports many ebook reader formats including Adobe PDF […]
The remaining few claimants in the Diggory Press court case, which was previously scheduled to go ahead in March 2010, have now been requested to appear before a senior judge for a hearing in November this year. This follows several unsuccessful orders from the court for all parties to pursue Alternative Dispute Resolution. ADR requires […]
Barnes & Noble, the largest bookseller in the USA is set to go head to head with Amazon in the ebook market. The ebookstore launch is set to go ahead later this summer with a standard price rivalling Amazon’s $9.99 marker. First year sales projections for the retailer are aiming at one million titles and […]
Amazon have been forced to revise their systems which allowed them to removed purchased and downloaded copies of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm from customer’s Kindle devices. The big brother styled swoop of Amazon’s arm happened last Friday and has led to a considerable on line debate and backlash against the giant internet retailer. […]
