Irish poetry publishers Salmon and Dedalus Press have joined the roster of independent trade publishers at Inpress Books UK. They join the successful sales and marketing agency along with five British publishers, Seren Books, Cinnamon Press, Tall Lighthouse, Bloodaxe and Route. Inpress is the sales and marketing agency for independent publishers in the UK and…
Is Amazon Taking Aim Once Again on Agency Model?
If we are to believe Motoko Rich and Brad Stone in yesterday’s edition of the New York Times, Amazon may be seriously considering indulging in its party trick of removing the buy buttons from some large publishers. Currently several large publishers are in negotiations with Amazon about the implementation of the agency model for e-books. According to the article in…
Arse About Face and The Future of Publishing
Currently, the below promotional video is doing the viral rounds. It was created as a promotional tool for the Penguin owned, Dorling Kindersley Books imprint. The video is entitled, The Future of Publishing. I think it works pretty well for the subject matter, but the idea is five years old. Here is the DK Publishing…
Miller To Leave HarperStudio in May
The news today that Bob Miller, president of HarperStudio, the innovative shared-profit non-returnable publishing imprint of HarperCollins is leaving in May to join Workman Publishing, a large US independent publisher, certainly comes as a little bit of a surprise to the industry, considering Miller only took up his role with HarperStudio in April 2008. By…
Adventures in Self-Publishing with Cedric Cross
I’ll start by saying that anticipating a response on the edits to your novel is torture. Xlibris does a great job by updating me on my novel and informing me where the process of the book is at, but waiting on them to edit just doesn’t do well for your sleep habits. Writing a novel…
Lulu: You Wanna Piece of Me?
DIY self-publishing service provider Lulu has set in motion a process which could see the company offering public shares on the Canadian stock market as early as next month. Last Friday Lulu filed a preliminary prospectus with the regulatory authorities in Canada. The first moves that may see shares in Lulu sold on the stock…
Amazon UK Author Pages Now Available For Self-Published Authors
While self-published authors in the USA have been enjoying the benefits of having a free dedicated Author Page of their own for the past few months, Amazon UK have only just launched the feature this side of the big pond over the past weekend. While Amazon have been busy loading thousands of pages for illustrious…
Concord Free Press – Overview (Updated – June 2011)
The company is a small independent publisher. The motto is: FREE THEIR BOOKS AND THEIR MINDS WILL FOLLOW. When a new title is published, the books are given away for free through a network of independent bookstores and an online bookstore (the compapany will mail the books anywhere in the world, within reason, for free as well). The authors are…
Dog Gone Book Gone!
From Emily Veinglory’s Sunday’s Picture series on PODPeople. The Independent Publishing Magazine | TIPM Media
Macmillan CEO Talks More on eBooks and The Agency Model
John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan, continues to host some very lively debate on e-books and the agency model on his recently launched blog. In yesterday’s posting he tackles some commenter points made on the site. “In traditional publishing we had three formats, each at a different price. They were targeted at specific channels of distribution and were…