Authors Douglas Burcham shares some short notes on this year’s UK Self-Publishing Conference held in Leicester on March, 30th 2014. Although not a current user of Troubador Publishing I attended their second Self Publishing Conference UK yesterday having enjoyed and benefitted from my attendance last year. The other attendees seemed to be having a good […]
Photo via LBF With the London Book Fair just around the corner, Tom Chalmers, Managing Director at IPR License, evaluates how indie authors can make international book fairs work for them A question we hear day in, day out from authors is, how can we get our work in front of the right people? Closely […]
Bookbaby describes itself as ‘a team of authors, poets, bloggers, and artists’ providing an e-book distribution network and offering publishing services to authors not looking to sell-out to ‘big publishing.’ Founded in 2011 and based in Oregon, USA, Bookbaby is a brand of the AVL Digital Group, which is a manufacturer and distributor of optical […]
Lulu has announced that it has added e-book distribution to Amazon Kindle and Kobo e-book store in an expanded partnership deal with Ingram Content Group. Lulu’s publishing and distribution systems will now integrate with Ingram’s digital management system, CoreSource. From the press release: RALEIGH, NC–(Marketwired – March 20, 2014) – Lulu, the pioneer in independent publishing, today […]
One of the biggest challenges facing publishers in the industry is shifting their role and identity from operating as curators and gatekeepers of literature to being providers of content and technologists. Publishers have pretty much steered the ship on a steady and established path over the past hundred years, but the emergence of digital technology […]
Barnes & Noble’s self-publishing platform, Nook Press, has been launched in the UK and several countries on the European continent. The platform for authors and publishers is now available in multiple languages including French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, as well as English, and royalty payments will be paid in local currencies. From the press release: NOOK Media […]
Some four years ago (January 2010) I posted this very short piece about Vermont-based independent publisher, Norilana Books. I pointed out that using a publicly assessable blog wasn’t the most professional way for a publisher to inform authors that royalty payments would be late. A close reading of the linked blog post and sentiment expressed […]
My two most recent articles on TIPM dealt with a perceived hierarchical structure in self-publishing exacerbated by publishing experts pushing a very distinct interpretation of what good self-publishing is. I also questioned just who is really in charge of self-publishing and what their motivations are for the good of all authors. While it’s therapeutic for […]
TIPM released the latest Publishing Service Index for March late last week and it featured some recently reviewed companies for the first time. I also want to take the opportunity in this post to share some additional data derived from the Publishing Index I’ve never shared before. But first let’s take a look and the […]
