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Month: May 2012
The Writers’ Workshop UK Survey On Experiences of Professional Writers in The Industry
Following on from my last post; here is a survey from the perspective of authors you won’t have to pay to see the results of. The survey was conducted by The Writers’ Workshop (UK) for professional writers and presented under the banner title – Do You Love Your Publisher? You can find the full results […]
Self-Publishing Report: The Taleist Survey – Not a Gold Rush
Self-Publishing Report: The Taleist Survey – Not a Gold Rush: The Self-Publishing survey conducted by Taleist is now complete and available, though I won’t pretend I’m not a little disappointed Taleist has chosen to release the details of the survey in a closed/purchase option via an ebook on Amazon. I appreciate the work Steven Lewis […]
John Oakes of Or Books on Disintermediation
I’m currently researching a piece at the moment on control, disruption and discoverability in the publishing world, so I was certainly interested to come upon this piece by John Oakes of Or Books on Amazon and disintermediation which appeared late last week on Publishers Weekly. I’m all for large publishers embracing the digital revolution – in-house as […]
Finalists Announced For Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award 2012
The six finalists in the 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award have been announced today. The three general fiction and three young adult fiction authors and listed below with the two overall winners in each category to be announced on June 16th. Alan Averill, The Beautiful Land Download an excerpt from The Beautiful Land Read the experts’ reviews […]
Amazon launches CreateSpace in Europe | The Bookseller
Amazon launches CreateSpace in Europe | The Bookseller “Amazon has launched its CreateSpace today (17th May) in Europe, which means that authors who self-publish in the UK can have their books accessed in European countries and the US. Amazon’s CreateSpace platform, which has been running in the US since 2007, will now allow self-published authors […]
The Future of Publishing 2020: The Push And The Pull
This is the first of a series of articles on The Future of Publishing 2020. I’ve been preparing this article for a while on the future of self-publishing 2020. One thing I have learned is that predicting the future based on current practices and trends is a precarious business. The publishing industry – as a community […]
Deidre Knight Book Agents Have Become Marketers | Digital Book World
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Chip Kidd on Cover Design at TED
Random House book designer, Chip Kidd, offers some advice on the process drawing on his many years in the book industry and producing book covers for authors like Michael Crichton and Haruki Murakami. This video part of the TED presentation talks. The Independent Publishing Magazine | TIPM Media
Google Argues for Dismissal of Authors’ Book-Scan Lawsuit – Bloomberg
Google Argues for Dismissal of Authors’ Book-Scan Lawsuit – Bloomberg: “Google Inc. (GOOG) asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit by an organization representing authors over the search- engine company’s digital scanning of millions of books, saying the group can’t represent the owners of the books’ copyrights. U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan heard […]