0 Discovered Authors (now Callio Press) is a UK publisher and provider of author solutions services since 2005. I have been aware of them for the past three to four years. The company was one of the earliest UK author solution services I took a look at, but consistently, I have had to put off reviewing…
Wylie Ups The Ante
Literary agent Andrew Wylie has threatened to up the ante in his negotiations with top publishing houses over the past nine months. Wylie made the latest comments to the Financial Times in an interview this week. Wylie has threatened to expand Odyssey Editions, their new digital imprint, which is publishing the back catalogue e-book editions…
Amazon Unveil Sleaker and Cheaper Kindle
Today Amazon announced the release of the newest generation of devices to the Kindle ereader family. The new Kindle is thinner and comes with improved screen contrast and double the storage space of its predecessor. The latest WiFi model will retail at $139 and all new generation devices should be ready to ship from August 27th. The Kindle…
Levi Asher on Andrew Wylie, ‘The Jackal’
Today’s article by Levi Asher over on Literary Kicks takes a more considered view of Andrew Wylie’s launch of Odyssey Editions. Indeed, the article’s title, Appreciating Andrew Wylie, Evil Bohemian Jackal, reflects Asher’s ability to grasp the wider picture here, and he has not indulged in some of the more over-the-top comments seen this past…
GalleyCat: Jeremy Robinson Interview
I have mentioned successful self-published author Jeremy Robinson a number of times. GalleyCat today have an interview with him. The author of The Didymus Contingency talks about self-publishing, audio books, podcasting, getting picked up by the Trident Media Agency, and landing a major publishing deal with Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Press. Interesting,…
Man Booker 2010 Longlist Announced
The judges for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction announced a longlist of thirteen books this morning to contest Britain’s leading literary prize worth £50,000. A total of 138 books were considered for the longlist. “Here are thirteen exceptional novels – books we have chosen for their intrinsic quality, without reference to the past…
David Carnoy of CNET on Self-Publishing an eBook
David Carnoy of CNET has a great ‘in a nutshell’ piece about all the channels you can choose to use if you are self-publishing your e-book. Well worth the read and the most information on self-publishing I have seen gathered together in one place. “The whole e-book market is rapidly evolving and a lot of…
Larsson Enters the ‘Kindle Million Club’
Stieg Larsson has become the first author ever to sell over one million Kindle e-books. In a press release today, Amazon declared Larsson, author of the bestselling Millennium Trilogy, the first member of the ‘Kindle Million Club’. The Swedish author died of a massive heart attack in 2004 and really only achieved his literary success after his…
The Authors Guild Enters the Ring on Wylie Agency
The US Authors Guild has responded for the first time on the moves by the Wylie Agency to launch a digital publishing imprint and strike an exclusive deal with Amazon. In the statement released this morning, The Authors Guild say that publishers have brought the current situation on themselves and are ‘governed by old publishing…
HarperCollins CEO Condemns Wylie Agency
The Bookseller is reporting this morning that HarperCollins is the latest large publishing house to voice its opposition to moves by the Wylie Agency to lauch a digital publishing imprint. The Bookseller piece quotes HarperCollins CEO, Victoria Barnsley: “HC will vigorously protect its rights and our authors’ interests by ensuring their work gets to the broadest possible audience.…