Dorling Kindersley (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It’s always worth giving DK Publishing‘s The Future of Publishing a reprise, now and again… Related articles Self-Publishing Summit planned for November Faber restructures ‘for future growth’ Disgruntled Self-Published Authors Launch Blog Indie Publishing Workshop at HNS London | Video by Richard Denning Amazon ‘charging publishers 20% for e-book VAT’ […]
The Happy Guy Marketing is based in Canada and offers a host of writing, marketing, design and translation services. David Leonhardt is president of the company and over the past year he has been keeping track of queries for the company’s writing services and what people specifically were asking for. He has tabulated and made some of the results available. You can take […]
English: Mo Yan after giving a reading in Hamburg, Germany. Deutsch: Mo Yan nach einer Lesung im Gymnasium Marienthal, Hamburg. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Chinese writer Mo Yan has been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. The official citation from the Nobel Academy read: “who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary”. Mo Yan […]
Nobel Prize (Photo credit: jamieca) It’s Frankfurt Thursday and that can only mean the official announcement of the Nobel Prize for Literature for 2012. The bookies seem convinced that it will be Haruki Murakami or Bob Dylan. The American music folk legent would certainly be an unusual choice and I’m not sure the literature committee […]
The Frankfurt Book Fair begins in full Wednesday, October 10th, and runs until Sunday. You can take a look at the events going on this week on the official website. TIPM will be keeping a close eye on all the happenings here and on our Facebook page. Related articles Frankfurt Book Fair: rights preview II […]
The Competition Authority in Ireland has intervened and blocked a move by Eason & Son, the largest book retailer and wholesaler in the country, from taking over the remaining book wholesaler, Argosy Libraries. The Competition Authority cited the terms of the Competition Act 2002 to prevent Eason from purchasing some of the assets of Argosy […]
Writer Beware ® Blogs!: Class Action Lawsuit Against PublishAmerica Dismissed I reported earlier this week on TIPM’s Facebook page that the class action lawsuit taken against PublishAmerica in June of this year was dismissed earlier this month.You can file the officially filed decision of the case here. WriterBeware has the full details, but in essence, it’s […]
The UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) has moved into the writers’ services market with the launch of its Manuscript Assessment Service. Writers, including non-members of the CWA, will now be allowed to submit full or partial manuscripts for critical assessment by an experienced member or associate member who is an agent or editor. The CWA stated: […]
“For this mesmerising exclusive video, Glen Milner visited Smith Settle bookbinders near Leeds, where the owners, Don Walters and Tracey Thorne, allowed him to film the making of the 17th Slightly Foxed book, Suzanne St Albans’s memoir Mango and Mimosa, from start to finish. Here, you’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at the printing plates, the […]
Man Booker Prize (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Independent publishers took a real hold of the 2012 Man Booker Prize with this morning’s announcement of the final six shortlisted books. Five of the six books are published by independent publishers, including heavyweights Faber and Bloomsbury. However, much smaller independents like Salt Publishing, Myrmidon Books and not-for-private-profit publisher, And Other […]
