Cold Tree Press was one of the earliest American POD publishers starting out way back in 2001. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, they were guided by the commitment of its entrepreneurial owner and president, Peter Honsberger. Cold Tree Press emerged into a changing world of publishing and quickly developed a reputation for nurturing new writers and […]
Robert McCrum takes his sharp insight and wit to publishing blunder rejections of celebrated literature over the years in Sunday’s Guardian UK newspaper article. For authors currently in the rounds of submission/rejection, submission/rejection, ad nausea, you might be heartened to know about the following remarks and observations on book classics which sit happily and comfortably […]
Eoin Purcell continues with the third part of his analysis on book publishing sales in Ireland. The Independent Publishing Magazine | TIPM Media
Smashwords have just announced an expansion in their ebook distribution network with online retailer Barnes & Noble. Ebooks included in Smashwords ‘Premium Catalog’ will be made available for listing and sale from the giant online retailer. This will come as a huge bonus to self-published authors who have signed up to Smashwords. authors should be […]
Lulu have made further clarifications today regarding their recent announcement about changes to their distribution and suspension of their popular ‘Publish By You’ option. “We want to hear from you as much and as often as possible to improve our services to ensure you create the best products, have the most sales or achieve whatever […]
Chief U.S. District Judge John Woodcock Jr. has refused Amazon.com’s motion to dismiss Booklocker.com’s Antitrust Lawsuit against them. The lawsuit stems from actions and communications by Amazon early last year to instruct some publishers using print-on-demand digital printing to use Amazon’s own printer, Booksurge. You can read the official court documents on Judge Woodcock Jr’s […]
“Delivering on its promise to give consumers a variety of choices, Sony today announced the third member of its new Reader family – the Reader Daily Edition™, a highly-anticipated wireless model with 3G connectivity. The Daily Edition caps its new line of Reader products, joining the Reader Pocket Edition™ and the Reader Touch Edition™ which […]
Earlier this month we looked at Irish self-published author, Enda Murray, travelling around the midlands and west of Ireland selling his book, Doom and Gloom (Me Arse!!), an anti-recession book of poetry. Well, it seems self-published authors will stop at nothing to shift those volumes, though, Christopher Herz is a little different. Herz left his […]
Are we witnessing the shape of books to come? Quillr is an online platform that allows authors to use a combination of multimedia with text in their book. We talked last week about Thomas Pynchon’s novel and it’s soundtrack of 1960’s music as accompaniment. Well, Quillr maybe the next step in the future of the […]
Some of you will be aware that I have been concentrating much of my review efforts on author solution services in the UK for the past six months or so due to a book I am currently compiling on the self-publishing market there. Well, I have completed all the reviews I will be doing there […]
