Author Archives: Mick Rooney

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Barnes & Noble Buys Ebook Seller Fictionwise

Barnes & Noble Buys Ebook Seller Fictionwise

In an effort to further expand their digital book business, US Bookchain Barnes & Noble has bought the ebook seller Fictionwise for a reported $15,7 million. Fictionwise will continue to be run by its former owners. Both companies believe the overall catalogue of ebooks available to customers will be greatly increased. Fictionwise will continue to

Faber Liberates The ebook

Independent book publisher Faber is one of one of those to watch for new trends and different approaches to publishing. On April 27th, they will release the ebook, ‘What Price Liberty?’ by Ben Wilson, inviting buyers to pay what they deem appropriate, even if that means the download is for free. The book itself deals

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Amazon Statement on Kindle 2’s Speech Feature

Amazon has released the following statement regarding the recently released Kindle 2 and its speech feature. Issues had been raised about whether the ‘voice read-back’ feature on the device infringed on publisher’s copyrights. Amazon in their statement maintain that they do not believe there is any issue of illegality, but are nevertheless going to allow

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Wil Wheaton’s Interview with Lulublog.com

There is an interesting interview with author, actor, social commentator and BBC correspondent, Wil Wheaton about his new book ‘Sunken Treasure’ on Lulu.com’s blogspot. Wil Wheaton is an author who was previously published by a tradional press but choose the avenue of self publishing with Lulu. You can catch Nick Popio’s interview with Wil Wheaton

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Publishing Basics Magazine – Change or Be Damned Article

Publishing Basics is a monthly magazine which I subscribe to. It is owned and run by publishing guru Ron Pramschufer who also owns RJ Communications. In this month’s edition I have an article which was published on this site last year entitled ‘Publishing Industry – Change or Be Damned’. mickrooney.blogspot.com/2008/10/publishing-industry-change-or-be-damned.html You can get a free

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AuthorHouse USA – Reviewed (Updated, March 2010)

http://www.authorhouse.comhttp://www.authorhouse.co.uk USA & UK based Amazon.com titles – 42,000Amazon.co.uk titles– 49,700 Standard Package starts at $599++ AuthorHouse have been providing self publishing services for authors for many years. They remain one of the heavy-hitters of the self publishing industry, are owned by Author Solutions, who also own iUniverse, and have the largest slice of self

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Waterstone’s New Voices 2009 List Released

Waterstones, the hight street English retailer, has announced its list of literary ‘New Voices’ for 2009. The books are all from new and emerging literary talent which the retailer believes will develop and flourish over the next year and beyond. A considerable amount of the titles are released from Independent publishing houses. Waterstones believe these

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Snowbooks Publishing & Lulu.com

I have mentioned a number of times in my articles that small and independent publishers do utilise some of Lulu.com’s book set-up services. Small publishers can choose to use Lulu.com to complete their finalised PDF files for their digital printer, or use them for an initial ‘test’ proof before committing to an off set print

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