Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. What is the greatest obstacle keeping us from being able to resell ebooks? Will YouTube stardom translate to a…Continue Reading
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Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. How can booksellers make the most of their brick-and-mortar retail stores? What can ebook subscription services learn from the cable model? Following…Continue Reading
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Tagged Barnes & Noble, Common Sense Media, digital first publishing, Ellora's Cave, HarperCollins, Liberty Media, Next Issue, NPR, oyster, pew research center, Samhain, Victoria Barnsley
Two and a half years ago, our sister website, PublishingTrendsetter, launched an infographic called Lifecycle of a Book,which showed the process of publishing a book, from inception to final product. The infographic also came with accompanying videos of young professionals from each department talking about what they do and how they do it. Now, Trendsetter…Continue Reading
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. How will HarperCollins and Harlequin benefit from the merger? To what extent do literary agents help their authors earn more money? Jane Friedman remains optimistic…Continue Reading
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. How can authors, retailers, and publishers each work to improve the ebook industry? Huffington Post’s books editor Maddie Crum offers three trends….Continue Reading
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Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Francine Prose and Leslie Jamison discuss the implications of mining real relationships for literary material. Bookish editors predict the…Continue Reading
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Tagged Amazon, Bookish, Childwise, comic books, comixology, cyberpunk, dystopian, e-readers, fairytales, fiction writing, Francine Prose, graphic novels, Leslie Jamison, literary citizenship, subgenres, tablets, The Walking Dead, virtual reality, X-Men, YA, young adult
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Graywolf Press‘ Fiona McCrae offers advice for independent publishers. Is it time to reevaluate genre fiction? How can writers break…Continue Reading
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