Google have chosen the week of the Frankfurt Book Fair to announce the launch of their ebook selling store which will rival Amazon and Barnes & Nobel. The online ebook platform store will simultaneously open in the USA, UK and Europe in the first half of 2010. Their slogan will be “buy anywhere, read anywhere”…
Shadowmancer Author Calls Time on Writing Career
We have spoken about English author Graham Taylor (GP Taylor) several times on these pages regarding his self-publishing success during the 1990’s with his first novel, Shadowmancer, as well as his involvement with British author solutions service, Grosvenor House Publishing. The Telegraph reported yesterday that Taylor has decided to give up writing so he can care…
Thomas Nelson – Publishing Intrigue & Afterthoughts
The decision this week by American trade publisher Thomas Nelson to launch their own imprint offering authors self-publishing packages has certainly captured the blogosphere, if not the whole of the publishing industry. Add to this the intriguing caveat that Author Solutions will run the design, print and distribution end of WestBow Press for Thomas Nelson.…
Frankfurt Book Fair 2009 or China Book Fair 2009?
Is it my own perception or the reality that the Frankfurt Book Fair 2009 is in danger of being entirely consumed by the dissident voices of China? (not to mention the dissident voices of digitization and disinterest) There has been an undercurrent of criticism against the organisers of the Frankfurt Book Fair that they have somehow…
Frankfurt Book Fair 2009 Digitisation Survey
Organisers of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2009 have been conducting a survey about digitisation in the book publishing industry. The results of the survey will be correlated and put together in the Bookfair’s newsletter following the event. I thought it would be interesting to present the questions being asked in the survey here. You can…
Thomas Nelson Form Self-Publishing Partnership With Author Solutions
Thomas Nelson was originally founded as a Scottish bookseller in Edinburgh in 1798. The company began selling second-hand religious books but quickly developed the Thomas Nelson publishing imprint. Throughout the nineteenth century it continued to publish both religious and non-religious books until close to the turn of the century when non-religious books accounted for 94%…
Time For Publishers To Engage & Embrace Changes: Sara Lloyd, Frankfurt TOC, 2009
The O’Reilly Tools of Change kicked off their first ever conference on European soil at the Frankfurt Book Fair this morning. The O’Reilly TOC conferences are well known on the digital technology and publishing circuit in the USA. Their aim is to identify the challenges and decipher the tools of change needed in the digital…
Frankfurt Book Fair Gears Up For 2009 Show
The Frankfurt Book Fair starts this Wednesday, October 14th and runs until the 18th. The Fair will only be open to the trade for the first three days and the general public for the final two days. The annual Frankfurt Book Fair has now established itself as the premier global book fair and this year…
New York Times: Sergey Brin Offers His Opinions On Google Book Settlement
Sergey Brin, co-founder and technology president of Google has expressed his opinions and support for what Google is trying to achieve with the Google Book Settlement in an article for yesterday’s New York Times entitled, A Library to Last Forever. It is a frank and reasoned opinion few–bar the most partisan–could find fault with. Brin’s…
EA Teams Up With Publishers For Launch of Flips ebooks
Electronic Arts, the game studio, is following in the footsteps of Nintendo and utilising the DS console platform to launch a serious of children’s ebook titles. Nintendo themselves also ready have experimented with ebook titles on the DS with 100 Great Classic Books, which sold 115,000 units in the UK. Electronic Arts are calling the…