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. The Author Earnings Report was released this week, indicating some changes in Big Five book pricing. Nielsen released their report on…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. The Guardian takes a look at books that aren’t publishable on paper. Will the variety of new, attractive features on…Continue Reading
Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on Publishing Trendsetter. Earlier this year, France made publishing news headlines when its court ruled ebook subscription services like Kindle Unlimited illegal. The law cited was the Lang Law, which gives publishers the exclusive right to set the price of a book. Retailers are not allowed to discount more than…Continue Reading
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Tagged Anti-Amazon Law, Apple, Belfond, FBP, Fixed Book Pricing, France, Frankfurt Book Fair, Gallimard, German Publishers and Booksellers Assocation, International Publishers Association, Japan Book Publishers Association, John Wiley & Sons, Kindle Unlimited, Lang Law, Mexico, Net Book Agreement, New York Times, Pamela Druckerman, Penguin Random House, Poland, Publishers Weekly, Publishing Perspectives, Resale Price Maintenance System, switzerland, The Department of Justice, The Guardian, United States
In a world where “content and form can be easily separated, writers…are nothing short of desperate to understand the change that technology has forced upon traditional publishing,” writes Jason Allen Ashlock, President of Movable Type Management, in a recent Digital Book World post. In the interest of authors being better informed, some publishers are getting…Continue Reading
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Tagged Alan Mahar, Allen & Unwin, Amber Withycombe, AWP, Black Swan, Booker Prize, branding, Center for Fiction, Coutts, creative writing, Crime Fiction Academy, Digital Book World, Doubleday, F+W Media, Faber Academy, Faber and Faber, Gaynor Arnold, Helen Cross, Ian Ellard, Jason Allen Ashlock, Jeanette Winterson, Jim Crace, Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, masterclasses, Moleskine, Movable Type Management, Rachel Joyce, Random House UK, Reed College, Shakespeare and Co., Simone Baird, SJ Watson, The Guardian, Tin House, Tindal Street Press, University of East Anglia, Val McDermid
As dead as August is on the rest of the world’s cultural calendar, there might well be no more important month in Scotland. In addition to the Fringe Theater Festival, every August brings the Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF), this year running August 11-27. With over 800 authors and around a quarter of a million…Continue Reading
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Tagged Alexander McCall Smith, Allan Guthrie, apps, Arthur Conan Doyle, authors, Blasted Heath, Denise Mina, digital-first publishers, DRM, Edinburgh, Edinburgh International Book Festival, festivals, Frances Sutton, Fringe Theatre Festival, Ian Rankin, international, iTunes, J. K. Rowling, Kyle MacRae, Macbeth, Marian Sinclair, Miranda Anderson, Palimpsest, Publishing Scotland, Robert Burns, Sara Hunt, Saraband, Scotland, The Electric Bookshop, The Guardian, University of Edinburgh, Val McDermid
(Version 3.0 of The Conversation Prism infographic first created by Brian Solis and JESS3 in 2008 to map the social media universe by “features and capabilities.”) When Pivotcon kicked off in October, 2010, Douglas Rushkoff christened it the“TED of Marketing.” Programmed and hosted this year by new media guru Brian Solis, Pivotcon brought together 635…Continue Reading
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Tagged American Eagle, Brian Solis, Britta Schell, Buddy Media, BuzzMachine, Digital First initiative, Douglas Rushkoff, Electronic Arts, Facebook, Hachette, Hearst Digital, Jack Krawczyk, Jay Rogers, Jeff Jarvis, JESS3, John Paton, Journal Register, Kristine Welker, Local Motors, Mashery, Matt Trainer, Mekanism, Michael Jaindl, Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy, MTV, NCAA, Need for Speed, Networked Insights, Nielsen, nmincite, Open Table, Oren Michels, Paul Dunay, Pete Caban, Pivotcon, Public Parts, Radha Subramanyam, Random House, Real Beauty, Rich Kelley, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Shani Higgins, Simon & Schuster, StumbleUpon, sxsw, Technorati, The Conversation Prism, The Guardian, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Tumblr, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Zuberance
