Is the ASI ‘fake social media pages’ issue the first sign that new owners Pearson won’t tolerate questionable practices or have ASI just been caught with their pants down in public? Related articles Morrison, Shatzkin and The Value of Social Media in Publishing It’s Their Fault – Not Mine! I Was In The McCloud Morrison!…
In The Self-Publishing Kingdom, The One-Eyed Writer is King
Sue Grafton (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Okay, so Sue Grafton said self-publishing was for writers too lazy to do the hard work. I’m not so sure what all the fuss is about. Sure, Grafton should have chosen her words more carefully, but, as the self-publishing fraternity dust themselves off after the latest scuffle, they might note…
Self-Publish YOUR Book | Echo Creative Media
Published on German Link (Photo credit: guioconnor) Recorded @ Creative Ones Feb 18th 2012 Join 20 year publishing veterans Brenda Noel and Dawn Sherill of Echo Creative Media as they talk about the ins and outs of writing and book publishing. Related articles Final Heads Up on TIPM, TIPM Media and Seeking Advice Web &…
PUBLISHING SERVICE INDEX – August 2012
This is the PUBLISHING SERVICE INDEX for August 2012. This edition reflects several new review updates as well as new arrivals Book Country and Pumbo. The top ten sees no change with the top three places, despite LSI’s improved colour book program, but BookLocker and Pen Press return. Lulu continues the trend this year of slipping down the…
Guest Post: Online Publishing with a Twist | Amanda Meuwissen of BigWorldNetwork
Combining ebooks, audiobooks and eventual paperbacks in episodic eSeries, BigWorldNetwork.com may be the new television for books. Guest poster and Managing Editor at BWN, Amanda Meuwissen explains: BigWorldNetwork.com is The eSeries Network, a new kind of publisher offering serialized online publication of fiction and non-fiction, audio versions of all eSeries episodes, and eventual compilations to…
eBooks For The Bookshelf | Boxette
Have you heard the one about the man who goes into his local bookstore and asks the assistant, ‘where are all those ebooks I keep hearing about? I can’t find a single one on any of your shelves.’ Well, the store assistant might have laughed, but Boxette, a Manchester UK-based ebook production company, is not not…
It’s Their Fault – Not Mine! I Was In The McCloud Morrison!
Image via CrunchBase In light of recent articles and debates here and elsewhere on the state of publishing, the rise of self-publishing and social media as a marketing tool, I came across this interview featuring Scottish author Ewan Morrison talking with Andrew Keen from Techcrunch some weeks after last year’s Edinburugh Book Festival. Since Morrison’s…
Who Needs Poorly Written Huffington Post Articles?
Published! (Photo credit: patries71) This article appeared a couple of days ago on The Huffington Post entitled, Who Needs Publishers and Bookstores? Writers, Readers & Everyone Else. Sometimes you just can’t let an article go without pointing out the horrors it tries to perpetrate. Thanks to The Passive Voice for plumbing from the depths where it…
Is The Photobook The New Self-Publishing Phenomenon?
44.4thFotoWeekDC.Central.18L.NW.WDC.5November2011 (Photo credit: Elvert Barnes) This morning the Independent UK has a piece entitled, Do we still have a thirst for coffee table books? written by Tim Walker. The piece looks at the continued success of the Quarto publishing group, famous for its large-format, illustrated titles and coffee table books. Walker’s piece even goes as…
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