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• Moving the Needle

  
  Nathan Bransford - Literary Agent — Authority: 124
  Hi everyone, this was originally posted yesterday in the Huffington Post , where I will be blogging from time to time. I thought Id re-post it here. During my meetings with editors, agents, sales assistants, marketers, and other assorted publishing types in New York this past week, there was a common theme that ...
  6 hours ago

• Kindle Versus Paper Books: A MOGO Choice

  
  Zoe Weil — Authority: 119
  Last month I bought a Kindle. I decided to get a Kindle for several reasons, and below you’ll find the pertinent information that led to my decision: 1) I read about 100 books every year – most are from the library, but often the books I want to read aren’t at my library, and I have to order them through ...
  1 day ago

• Kindle Versus Paper Books: A MOGO Choice

  
  Humane Connection — Authority: 128
  Last month I bought a Kindle. I decided to get a Kindle for several reasons, and below you’ll find the pertinent information that led to my decision: 1) I read about 100 books every year – most are from the library, but often the books I want to read aren’t at my library, and I have to order them through ...
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• PONDERING: Snippety snip

  
  The Good, The Bad and The Unread — Authority: 476
  Several bloggers have answered comments on the AAR forums about blogging recently. In doing so, some have noticed a recent snippiness and touchiness in the reading community, from readers and from writers. I was hanging around at Wendy’s blog recently, something I do a lot, and she’s noticed something ...
  3 days ago

• BBF is on

  
  Gopinath's "ArTicKles" — Authority: 403
  The Bangalore Book Festival is on since November 6th and will be open until 15th Nov 09. My self-published book, enabled and powered by Pothi.com has been put up in their Stall No. 288 there as I have already announced in my previous post. Pothi.com has begun posting all the happenings and pics in their blog ...
  4 days ago

• Proof: The Power and Pitfalls of Self-Marketing

  
  Oz and Ends — Authority: 469
  I was looking back at posts I never finished writing, and found one inspired by a December 2007 story on fantasy author Troy (Tompkins) CLE in a local section of the New York Times . The article’s opening hook was how CLE had created a fictional publicist for a press release for his self-published fantasy novel. ...
  6 days ago

• Publishing Point has video interview with Michael Healy

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 659
  Michael was the former Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group and is now the designated Executive Director of Books Rights Registry, part of the Google book settlement. The interview is at the Publishing Point site , along with an earlier interview with Cory Doctorow. If you are in the New York area, ...
  1 week ago

• Book View Cafe goes live – self publishing by well known authors

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 659
  In a move that is sure to make traditional publishers even more nervous than they currently are, Book View Cafe has just gone live. The Cafe is a self publishing group of 26 award-winning and best-selling authors who have decided to bring out their latest work directly on the Kindle and the Sony Reader. This is ...
  1 week ago

• Keeping the Ebook Revolution Green

  
  A Writer's Dream - Author Rae Lori — Authority: 413
  You guys know Im an ebook fan both as an author and a reader. Im jazzed about all the ebook readers coming out and am excited because these are just the beginning. Since ebooks are always touted as going green whether in the submission and editing process (thank you guys for this, youre life savers!) but also in book ...
  1 week ago

• The evolution of the author/publisher relationship

  
  Another Lost Shark — Authority: 127
  I was over at Electric Alphabet the other day and was interested in Kate Eltham’s examination of the question posed by Mark Coker in his article for The Huffington Post, do authors still need publishers ? Coker argues that an author (he uses names like Stephen King and JK Rowling) with a dedicated fanbase ...
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• Free ebooks from Gryphonwood Press and Australian Blade Press

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 659
  A Halloween giveaway. Here’s the press release I just received: Ebook lovers will be getting a special treat this Halloween. On October 31, Gryphonwood Press, along withAustralian-based Blade Red Press, will be giving away their entire catalog of electronic books for free. The giveaway includes popular ...
  1 week ago

• The e-Book Reader’s Fever

  
  http://epiac1216.wordpress.com — Authority: 137
  Once Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, announced the Kindle, the publishing industry would never be the same again.  This announcement took the industry by storm.  The Kindle is not yet a mainstream gadget, but it’s on the right track.  Its main hurdles are that it has no color and the price is too steep.  If you ...
  1 week ago

• Things to do today: 1.) Take out the trash. 2.) Pick up dry cleaning. 3.) Fix the publishing industry

  
  R.W. Ridley — Authority: 128
  Is the publishing industry in a mess? In recent weeks, the interwebs has been burning up with articles and blog posts about the demise of the traditional publishing industry.   I’m not sure what sparked the current crop of death notices, but I find it fascinating that so many people now find it newsworthy. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quick note: Macmillan lowers ebook royalties to 20%

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 659
  That’s what Publishing Perspectives is reporting . Macmillan is the parent of Tor, St. Martin’s, Farrar Strauss, Henry Holt and others. The article states that the “usual” ebook royalty is 25%, and the reduced royalty is applicable to “all exploitation of the content of the book in digital form”. Digg ...
  2 weeks ago

• Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad

  
  Oz and Ends — Authority: 469
  In The Insider’s Guide to Creating Comics and Graphic Novels , IDW editor Andy Schmidt lists three ways that comics creators can please editors: high-quality work, speed, and communication skills. Those same qualities also came up in the advice passed on by a British artist during a panel discussion at last ...
  2 weeks ago

• Diversity in SF and Romance

  
  A Writer's Dream - Author Rae Lori — Authority: 413
  Theres an interesting discussion going on over at Dear Author about cultural appropriation in the romance genre. On the heels of Racefail 09 which happened over in the SF genre, its quite refreshing to read another call to action for more diverse characters. The comments didnt take long to be derailed but some of ...
  2 weeks ago

• QUE proReader by Plastic Logic to be Sold in Barnes & Noble Stores

  
  Publishers Newswire — Authority: 121
  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. /Publishers Newswire/ — Plastic Logic and Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, yesterday announced that QUE™ (pronounced “Q”), the first proReader designed for business professionals, will be sold through Barnes & Noble’s nationwide network of ...
  2 weeks ago

• New & Notable Pop-ups & Movables

  
  Smithsonian Libraries — Authority: 127
  Gloria in excelsis deo. Illustrated by Vojtěch Kubašta. Czechoslavakia: c. 1960. This double-page pop-up illustrating the Christmas nativity scene was created by Vojtěch Kubašta (1914-1992), a Czech artist and book illustrator. Born in Vienna and raised in Prague, Kubašta began his career as an artist and book ...
  2 weeks ago

• How Economics Shapes a Web Comic (Literally)

  
  Oz and Ends — Authority: 469
  Todd Allen, author of The Economics of Web Comics , laid out some of the economics behind his own new web comic, Division & Rush , in an article for Publishers Weekly : Going into this, my built-in revenue stream is a set CPM rate based on traffic. (CPM—cost per thousand is a standard unit for Web ...
  2 weeks ago

• Publishers crippled the Nook? Don’t like the lending feature

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 659
  That’s what Kirk Biglione says in his MediaLoper article . According to Kurt, Publishers Lunch reported that many large publishers won’t participate in B&N’s LendMe program for fear that lending will somehow hurt the market. As a matter of fact they required B&N to reduce its lending program from ...
  2 weeks ago

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