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. Is the indie bookstore renaissance over? Sales were up in all major categories last week. What income are authors losing…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. Are e-readers becoming less “cool”? Trade sales rose in the first quarter. Will Amazon’s reliance on bots hurt its customer service? How…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. Why don’t books from a woman’s perspective win awards? How are children’s publishers embracing digital as a way to make…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
“If you don’t eat your own children, someone else will”: That’s how Michael Mace, Principal of the Silicon Valley–based Rubicon Consulting, began his presentation, “Check Out My Scars: Seven Lessons from the Failure of E-Books in 2000, and What They Mean to the Future of Electronic Publishing,” at the 2010 O’Reilly Tools of Change for…Continue Reading
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They’re not yet ubiquitous on the subway. And the “paperless office” is still a dream at this point. Our second annual industry survey of industry professionals found that 70% of respondents had never read an e-book. It’s unlikely that entry-level employees will receive shiny new Sony Readers with their company handbooks any time soon. Still,…Continue Reading
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Tagged agents, Amazon, Borders, carbon footprint, Carolyn Pittis, Cathy Goldsmith, e-readers, ebooks, Golden Books, Hachette, HarperCollins, iPhone, James Lichtenberg, Kindle, Levine Greenberg, Lightspeed, Macmillan, manuscripts, paperless office, Penguin, Perseus, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Sony Reader, survey, Victoria Skurnick, wireless
By Ariel Aberg-Riger I love Google. Like, a lot. I use Google Reader. And Gmail. And Google Docs. And Google Calendar. And Google Analytics. I happily let Google see everything I do. I eagerly await the day Google search can be fused to my brain. So, when I first heard the rumors about Google’s mobile…Continue Reading
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