E-books and ISBN’s remain a testing issue for many publishers. I have also come across a great deal of misunderstanding from authors who self-publish as well. A recent study paper by the International ISBN Agency reveals that they still stand by their 2005 recommendation that all electronic formats of a book should have a separately […]
For any international traveller passing through Dublin, Cork or London City airports, wishing to pick up a book for their journey or holiday abroad—they would be very familiar with Hughes & Hughes bookshops. Hughes & Hughes, in many ways, represented Irish independent book retailing to international consumers and readers. Today, the company entered receivership with […]
Lulu used the last day of the O’Reilly Media Tools of Change conference in New York, where they are a sponsor, to announce the launch of an open publishing platform for software developers, publishers or any company wishing to use Lulu’s publishing engine. This will allow a company to develop, build and integrate their own […]
Last year Lulu chose to withdraw their ‘Live Chat Support’ service and this drew a great deal of criticism from Lulu authors. Recently, Lulu’s forum has been full of much discussion about the poor response times from Lulu support by email. Well, it appears the penny has finally dropped with Lulu and they have decided […]
The Calder Collection is a new imprint launched by Oneworld Classics. It will publish classic titles from the John Calder catalogue which it acquired in 2007 as well as new titles. The imprint will publish the first ten titles in March, and will be followed by another ten to twelve titles every month. The lists […]
I don’t mention PublishAmerica here too often. There are many reasons why. Some of the reasons are contained in the articles and comments on the links, here and here. The Wikipaedia entry for PublishAmerica provides a better and less critical overview then they actually deserve. In a nutshell, I consider PublishAmerica the modern face of […]
Day one overview from Hannah Johnson of Publishing Perspectives.(Courtesy of Publishing Perspectives) The Future of Publishing will live on, in, and around the Web community: Richard Nash of Cursor(Courtesy of O’Reilly Media – Tools of Change New York, 2010) The Independent Publishing Magazine | TIPM Media
Jason Epstein has written an illuminating and epic piece on the future of publishing in the March edition of The New York Review of Books. A must read. Jason Epstein is an American editor and publisher with a career spanning more than forty years. He has worked for Random House and Doubleday. He was co-founder […]
Robert McCrum writing in the Guardian UK this morning is unconvinced that 2010 is a bad time to be a writer. He suggests this assertion comes particularly from authors who have been involved in the traditional publishing world since the 1980’s. McCrum goes on to say that the outlook for self-published authors presents evermore promising […]
iUniverse has today revealed its bestsellers for the month of January. Some time ago (2008), we examined book ranking and what kinds of books sold best when published through some of the larger author solutions services. Here is the top ten for iUniverse for January. I have included the current Amazon ranking as of today. […]
