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I Think Publishers Have Lost The Battle & The War
The thing about the end of Agency is that it’s not over. That is to say that the rearguard action by the legacy publishing establishment isn’t finished. And make no mistake, Agency Pricing and the...
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Go Read This | Serious Nonfiction in the Digital Age
Great piece. And one that warrants a solid response, which I will think on before I write anything else: So when digital evangelists prognosticate about the future of publishing, as they love to do,...
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Go Read This | After viral e-book, Iowa author inks seven-figure deal | The...
I wonder how long before we stop reading these types of stories, either because it has become so established a route to publishing success that it’s not worthy of comment or because no author would be...
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Go Read This | Appearing At Harrogate – The Plot Thickens
In which an author serves a publisher: So I explain to Ursula – and the audience – that I can write a short story in five days and am happy to sell that at the Amazon minimum of 72p which generates me...
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Go Read This | How a Traditional Publisher Could Harm a Writer’s Career – The...
A smashing and important piece by Mark Coker here. There’s much to read and enjoy and think about. Worth noting though that while this is true fr MOST authors, for those authors that need scale or who...
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Amazon Steals Everyone’s Thunder Again (But Quietly)
Fascinatingly clever (if predictable in many ways) move from Amazon to extend the reach of its Kindle Owners’ Lending Library (KOLL) to the UK, Germany and France. By doing so it demonstrates very...
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On Publishing Mergers & Strategy
I have been mulling the Penguin Random House deal for some time now. In fact, I wrote most of this post about ten days ago or longer. I’ll be honest enough to admit that my failure to post my thoughts...
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Go Read This | Random House Digital Imprints | It’s a duck!
No punches pulled by Mick Rooney here: But what really pisses me off about all this is the amount of hours expended by pundits, experts and online commentators, with their heads stuck under the hood of...
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On Developing Author Power
Back in July 2006 I wrote: E-books will push this change even more. There is no reason why authors’ royalties should be the same on e-books as they are for paper books and in many ways there is no...
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Somehow I Missed This Incredibly Important detail of Kindle Worlds: MONEY
Five minutes ago I read a press release from Amazon about how it was expanding its Kindle Worlds project to incorporate new writers (and impressive ones at that). i was struck by how many of those new...
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Go Read This | Erotic romance author turned down Amazon publishing deal |...
Hoisted on their own petard one might say. The forces Amazon has helped unleash are making it difficult for its own publishing operation to recruit self-publishing authors: An editor for Amazon’s...
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Go Read This | Smashwords: 2014 Book Publishing Industry Predictions – Price...
Mark Coker continues to be one of the smartest and most insightful thinkers on ebooks, what they mean and where they are going. His predictions post for 2014 is interesting but this point in particular...
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Go Read This | Fast-Paced Best Seller: Author Russell Blake Thrives on...
There’s so much in this piece I have to take two extracts. This quote in particular is incredible: “Being an author is like being a shark, you have to keep swimming or you die,\” he says. “People...
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Go Read This | Books go online for free in Norway – Telegraph
Fascinating plan this one, and seems pretty sensible from a copyright perspective. It has echoes of the way that HarperCollins has been engaging with new subscription services (ie: breaking out...
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Go Read This | John Makinson Interview In The Times of India
Not terribly in-depth, nonetheless interesting. Especially when discussing the challenges of being too large (pointing to the value of imprints in the minds of authors) and responding to concerns about...
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Go Read This | Authors Launch Brown Girls Publishing
You really don’t need to look hard for even traditionally published authors driving change: The two authors, who will continue to write for S&S, are also skilled in other areas. Murray has an MBA...
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Go Read This | Smashwords: Farewell Sony Reader Store
More n the end of Sony’s eReading efforts in the US and it’s impact of Smashword, which in the very words of Mark Coker makes clear why this, although notable, is not that huge a deal: Sony’s devices...
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Go Read This | Hugh Howey’s Report On Author Earnings
A smashing example of how data can both clarify and obfuscate. On balance this is a fantastic piece that brings much-needed information to the discussion and what is more provides a free download of...
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