The Independent Publishing Magazine will be coming live from the London Book Fair 2012 from tomorrow. Live updates and photo’s will come via our new Facebook Fan page here. Later in the day, full features and video’s of seminars and interviews will come here on these pages. Looking forward to a great fair and meeting you all. I’ll […]
The shortlist for the 2012 International Impac Dublin Literary Award was announced earlier today by Dublin’s Lord Mayor and Patron of the Award, Andrew Montague. Ten novels were shortlisted for the world’s richest annual literary award of €100,000. The ten novels were nominated by libaries throughout the world and the award is administered by Dublin […]
Numerous writers have embraced e-book technology as a way to independently publish their books, reach new markets, and earn greater royalties for their work. Retail giant Amazon has long dominated the market for authors looking to self-publish their e-books, but it has quickly been followed by other e-book publishers, such as Smashwords, Lulu, and BookBaby. […]
Brian J. Showers is originally from Madison, Wisconsin. He is an author of gothic tales and also a publisher at Swan River Press, based in Dublin, Ireland. He has written short stories, articles, and reviews for magazines such as Rue Morgue, Ghosts & Scholars, Le Fanu Studies and Supernatural Tales. His short story collection, The […]
Okay. One last time. I appreciate the recent shakeup on Facebook has irked some followers and confused others. Last weekend my main profile on Facebook was converted from a profile to a page (the ones you like). I won’t appear anymore in your’ friend’ list, but the new page for The Independent Publishing Magazine should […]
From the Press Release: In the new order of easy self-publishing, the results of a poll of aspiring novelists by leading literary consultancy, The Writers’ Workshop may come as a surprise. Aspiring novelists predict the toughest times ahead for themselves and for booksellers but expect publishers both big and small to be able to […]
Why is a good cover so important? Simple – because people will judge your book by it. Sure, we’re told not to judge a book by it’s cover – but what else does a potential reader have to go on? Besides the title, it is the first (and in many cases, the only) part of […]
Business & Technology | Amazon.com warehouse workers fired if goals aren’t met | Seattle Times Newspaper From an article in The Seattle Times on workers at Amazon Fulfillment centres: Amazon.com strives to be increasingly efficient to ship customers’ orders as quickly as possible from its fulfillment centers around the world. And while the company has […]
Well, I won’t pretend this month’s index pretty much blew me away. In the three years The Independent Publishing Magazine has been providing this index, I’ve never experienced such a collective downturn by so many self-publishing services at once. I had to run the statistics a number of times over the past few hours to make sure […]
