Douglas continues his writing and reading for pleasure posts by comparing writing with the financial analogy of pennies and pounds. REF – 1750, Chesterfield, letter 5 Feb. (1932) IV. 1500: Old Mr. Lowndes, the famous Secretary of the Treasury, used to say – Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of…
Man Booker International Prize 2015: Final Ten Authors Announced
Ten writers are on the judges’ list of finalists under serious consideration for the sixth Man Booker International Prize, the £60,000 award which recognises one writer for his or her achievement in fiction. The authors come from ten countries with six new nationalities included on the list for the first time. They are from…
Writing and Reading for Pleasure: Looking for Gold | Douglas Burcham
Douglas continues his writing and reading for pleasure posts by looking for reading gold. “I’m going to Waterstones to look for gold,” I announce to my wife. “You would do better to go to a jeweller for something for me, or pan the rivers of Yukon or South Africa and if the latter I…
Dutch Court Orders e-Book Reseller to Close
The Amsterdam Court of Appeal has ruled that Dutch e-book reseller Tom Kabinet must shut down its website until it can prove that all the books it offers for sale are legally obtained. Third party sellers can upload e-book files to Tom Kabinet, however the company’s verification process was called into question soon after it launched in June 2014 when the Dutch…
Frankfurt Book Fair 2013 | CONTEC Conference | Publishing Perspectives
A recap of yesterday’s CONTEC conference at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2013 via Publishing Perspectives YouTube channel. The Independent Publishing Magazine | TIPM Media
ALLi Launch Open Up to Indies Campaign
The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) has chosen Book Expo America week to launch a campaign to encourage the book trade, literary festivals and book award organisations to ‘open up’ to the self-publishing community. In a week where several book trade CEO’s spoke openly at BEA about the challenges and threats facing the industry (and happily pointed…
Dorchester Publishing’s Fate To Be Decided This Month
Dorchester Publishing‘s fate as a going concern could be decided by the end of this month. The trade publisher tried to relaunch itself as an ebook publisher at the end of 2010, but has continued to struggle to carve a path in the market. Speaking to PW this week, Marketing & Publicity Co-ordinator, Hannah Wolfson,…
Merry Christmas From The Independent Publishing Magazine
It’s been a very fruitful year at The Independent Publishing Magazine, and for me personally with the publication of The Memory of Trees. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for all their support, input, comments, debate and friendship over the past twelve months. The publishing world continues to change and develop, and…
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.…
NPD Group: PC Game Digital Downloads Reaching Parity With In-Store Purchases
I don’t normally cover the software games market here, but I thought this piece over on Joystiq.com quoting a press release from market research company , The NPD Group, was interesting. While US based, it does give us an insight on the PC gaming market, and that sales parity between physical and digital distribution channels…