Patricia Simpson is an award winning author of fifteen books of paranormal romance. She has been writing and publishing since the early 1990’s and has been published by HarperMonogram, TOR and Silhouette. After some years of successfully publishing with these mainstream publishers, some of the rights of her books started to revert back to her.…
Bob Katz – Midlist Author: Hard Times with Third and Long
Publishers Weekly ran a piece last Friday on US author Bob Katz. Third and Long is the latest novel by Katz, but unlike his previous books, this one is a collaborative self-publishing project he undertook with Doug Wilhide, a college friend and marketing consultant. Katz has been a midlist author for many years but his…
LSI Expand Print Options For Publishers and Authors
Lightning Source has announced additional print-on-demand services for colour hardbacks, more trim sizes for colour as well as black and white interiors of hardback and paperback formats, and page count limitations are now incredibly flexible with a minimum page count of just 18 pages and a maximum of 1200 pages. Over the past ten years…
Cantara Christopher Interview on Subtletea
Cantara Christopher shared a link with me this morning to an interview she undertook with David Herrle at SubtleTea.com. Christopher is co-founder of Cantara Books, a literary micropress. Hats off to both Christopher and Herrle. This a fascinating, engaging and inspiring interview on the passion and dedication to literature and what publishing should be about. This…
Borders Group Lifted By $25m Investment
Vector Group Ltd will invest $25 million in Borders Group US through a private purchase of 11.1 million shares of stock. The move is intended to develop and improve the Borders brand, which has experience a difficult period of trading over the past eighteen months. From today’s press release: “ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 21, 2010 /PRNewswire via…
WSJ Article: E-Books Rewrite Bookselling
Today’s edition of the Wall Street Journal has quite an extensive article on e-books and the pressures online sales are having on brick ‘n’ mortar stores. The article takes a specific focus on Barnes & Noble and its 1362 stores. The Independent Publishing Magazine | TIPM Media
Bookmasters Launch Full-Scale Self-Publishing Distribution Services with AUTURO
The BookMasters Group has announced the launch of full-scale digital and print distribution service for self-published authors called AUTURO. AUTURO will provide a broader range of options, including sales, marketing, promotion and publicity than had previously been available from The Bookmasters Group. The new service will include print production as well as digital conversion and…
The Friday Project Serialize Smailes’ New Novel
Tomorrow, publisher, The Friday Project, will experiment by serializing the 32 chapters in Caroline Smailes’ new novel, Like Bees to Honey, across a host of book blogs. The novel is not due to be published until next week. Some of the blogs included belong to Lindsey Fallow, Ian Aspin, Matt Hill and novelist Sarah Salway. Each blog will…
Barnes & Noble PubIt(TM) To Provide Digital Self-Publishing Program
US bookseller Barnes & Noble has announced it is to launch a digital publishing program for independent publishers and self-published authors. PubIt! will allow users to load up completed book files online where they will be converted to the ePub format and made available for sale through Barnes & Noble.com and the Barnes & Noble…
Amazon Reinforce Their Brand as Publisher
In our report yesterday, we highlighted the analysis of Benedict Evans of media research company, Enders Analysis, who presented a fascinating take on the position and strategies of Google, Apple and Amazon in the world of publishing. Evans was speaking at this week’s Booksellers Association Book Industry Conference in London. Evans delivered the declaration that…