TIPM is currently on a break for the holiday season and this is a repost from our Best of 2013 articles. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our readers and subscribers for their continued support over the past year. We hope you have a prosperous holiday season and enjoy the time […]
Month: December 2013
TIPM Best of 2013: How Bowker uses its U.S. ISBN monopoly to rip off new authors
TIPM is currently on a break for the holiday season and this is a repost from our Best of 2013 articles. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our readers and subscribers for their continued support over the past year. We hope you have a prosperous holiday season and enjoy the time […]
TIPM Best of 2013: Your Publishing Path: Stop and Be Patient!
TIPM is currently on a break for the holiday season and this is a repost from our Best of 2013 articles. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our readers and subscribers for their continued support over the past year. We hope you have a prosperous holiday season and enjoy the time […]
TIPM Best of 2013: Overcoming The 7 Deadly Sins of Writing | Tom Corson-Knowles
TIPM is currently on a break for the holiday season and this is a repost from our Best of 2013 articles. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our readers and subscribers for their continued support over the past year. We hope you have a prosperous holiday season […]
Smashwords Annouce Revamp and Scribd Subscription and Distribution Agreement
Smashwords unveiled a complete website revamp and a new distribution partner yesterday. The e-book publishing platform and distributor has signed an agreement with Scribd, a web-based subscription and free service host for books and documents. The full details of the press release can be found below, and Smashwords founder Mark Coker expands more on the […]
Raider Publishing Strikes Back!
Raider Publishing International appears to have begun a new charm offensive against its online critics and disgruntled authors over the past couple of months. We’ve chronicled Raider over the past few years from its inception as a promising and innovative publishing service for authors, through to its descent into overexpansion, puff and pastry, and poor reputation in the self-publishing […]
Gottlieb on Re-Engineering The Role of Literary Agents | DBW Video
Since large corporations [publishers] took them over and are expecting a much higher profit margin for the sale of the book, so the matrix has been changing…As agents we’re impacted by what happens in the publisher acquisition and retail space, no matter what our own ethos is and no matter what we like to do […]
Books don’t just happen, someone has to take a risk | Herald Scotland
I came across a fascinating piece by Ian Bell in yesterday’s Herald Scotland. Bell bids a farewell to Mainstream Publishing, a Scottish publishing house founded by Bill Campbell and Peter Mackenzie in 1978. Their lives have gone into the imprint, good times and bad. Now and then the triumph was just to survive in a […]









