Lulu has launched a new service called ‘The Lulu Publishing Advisor‘, a recommendation tool geared to advise authors on their book publishing project. Director of Services at Lulu.com, Sarah Gilbert, described the new service: “The Lulu Publishing Advisor gives authors the advice they wish they’d had before they made a mistake,” says Sarah Gilbert, director […]
This video caught my eye over the past week when I was putting together my article The Future of Publishing 2020: Control. Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy was in conversation with Digital Book World’s Rich Fahle, a co-founder of Astral Road Brand Media. Reidy was at pains to point out that big publishers today […]
Indie Publishers Back Agency Model, Criticize DoJ Deal: “Nine independent publishers have combined to file joint comments objecting to the pending settlements of the Department of Justice’s lawsuit with Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster related to e-book pricing. The publishers noted that while they continue to sell e-books under the wholesale model, they have […]
I’ve been preparing these articles for a while on The Future of 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 and business–is undergoing an utter sea change in methodology and ideology not seen since Gutenberg’s first […]
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 and business – is undergoing an utter sea change in methodology and ideology not […]
The general fiction and young adult fiction winners of the Amazon and Penguin Group Breakthrough Novel Awards for 2012 were announced yesterday at a ceremony held at The Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle, Washington. Alan Averill won the prize in the general fiction category for his novel, The Beautiful Land, and Regina Sirois won the […]
The breaking news this evening, via Victoria Strauss, is that a class action law suit has been filed against PublishAmerica in the state of Maryland. The action was filed yesterday by Darla Yoos, Edwin McCall and Kerri Levine and “others similarly situated” in a 55 page document. From the opening pages of the law suit: […]
There’s no doubt about it, we’re neck deep in the Digital Age. With so many aspects of our lives taking place plugged in and online, very few of us can deny that the digital world—once so foreign and unfamiliar—is now different from just the world we live in. Our world—the world of the everyday—is the […]
The PUBLISHING SERVICE INDEX for author solutions services is something we have been providing since June 2010. This is the index for June 2012. Please see the separate page links for a list of individual reviews of all service providers. (Click image to enlarge) (KEY) DIY – Do-it-yourself bespoke sevices ASS – Author Solutions Services […]
Amazon Publishing has acquired romance and western publisher Avalon Books. This news may very well be the start of a long line of acquisitions for the giant retailer and publisher. From the press release: SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jun. 4, 2012– Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Avalon Books today announced that Amazon Publishing has acquired the publication rights from Avalon Books to over 3,000 backlist titles predominantly […]
