POD TV has been on a short hiatus, but returns this week with Joe Smiga’s Living Your Passion, a local TV Network program in Manchester, New Hampshire. Here, he interviews husband and wife, Nancy and John Grossman who run Back Channel Press, a local company who provide publishing services for authors. The company’s services are aimed […]
The 45 Borders stores in the UK will enter a final phase of closure in the four weeks of retail business leading up to Christmas. This is the final blow for their 1150 staff who have, until late last week, held some forlorn hope of the stores being taken over at local and regional levels. […]
Came across this BBC Radio Oxford program called The Write Lines via Jane Smith’s excellent, How Publishing Really Works. It is presented by the BBC’s Sue Cook and focuses on writing, publishing (commercial and self-publishing) and literary agents. The program runs for four episodes and broadcasts on Sundays, 9pm to 10pm and features many established industry experts. […]
Borders UK formally entered financial administration this afternoon with the appointment of MCR who will carry out a period of assessment before reporting to creditors. However, the 45 Border stores in the UK will continue to trade and its 1150 staff will be paid their wages. Some news networks jumped the gun a little early […]
In future months, that is—beyond November 2009—authors who drop by the DellArte Press site will probably be oblivious of the furore which occurred when romance publisher Harlequin decided to sign up with Author Solutions and utilise them to development a paid-publishing services. Harlequin is not the first, nor will they be the last. Author Solutions already […]
It is distinctly likely that the coming days will see Borders UK officially enter administration despite interest from both HMV and WH Smith to purchase part or all of the retail chain of 45 stores. However, it is understood both have now withdrawn their interest. Even a late bid in the last few days by the […]
Harlequin has changed the name of its paid-publishing imprint Harlequin Horizons. The imprint, which is pretty much being run in its entirity by Author Solutions will now be know as DellArte Press – very art-nouveau! From their website… “DellArte Press is a publishing company that offers aspiring romance writers the opportunity to self-publish their work […]
A conversation the other day with an author considering self-publishing veered off on a tangent neither of us had expected. We started out discussing his perspective book on sweet confectionary over the past fort years. Needless to say, we began with a long indulgent conversation on the sweets we used to buy with our pocket […]
In an article today, Joe Wikert makes A Bold Prediction and questions Amazon’s long term commitment to the Kindle e-reader device. Wikert reasons that Amazon, ultimately, is not geared towards hardware and already they have fallen behind other competitor e-readers. The Independent Publishing Magazine | TIPM Media
According to reports in this weekend’s business section of the Times UK, Borders UK retail chain is on the brink of collapse following WH Smith withdrawing from rescue discussions with the book retailer. It is expected talks will continue this week with other perspective groups, but one of the main points of contention is that Borders is […]
