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…
Irish Distributor CMD Booksource to Close in September (Updated)
(Booksource’s base in Scotland) Yesterday Irish Publishing News revealed that Irish books distributor CMD Booksource is to close its Irish operation from September 30th. This is a big blow for quite a number of publishers in Ireland, including UCD Press, Columba Press, Liberties Press and Mercier Press. CMD Booksource opened in Ireland in 2009 and is owned by…
The Philosophy and Vision of a Writer and Publisher
Alessandro Gallenzi is MD at independent publishers Alma and Oneworld Classics and The Bookseller this morning ran a piece on the London-based literary press securing a global sales and distribution deal with Bloomsbury. I am delighted for Alma and Oneworld Classics. My bookshelves are filled with titles from the old John Calder catalogue, and the…
PublishAmerica Discontinues Trade Paperback Books (UPDATE)
PublishAmerica (PBA 139.58) authors have been informed by email that the company is discontinuing trade paperback editions and books will only be available in hardback editions. It is a bizzare and troubling turn of events for its listed authors. As things stand with PublishAmerica, paperback retail prices are already considered excessive, and this latest development, if it is…
When Booksellers Become Small Presses
What would happen if local bookstores decided to become small press publishers? Well, according to today’s Publishers Weekly article, New Indie Bookselling Model: Publish Own Handselling Favorites, it is already happening. The article looks at the moves by two bookstore owners in Albany New York and Massachusetts using both print on demand and offset to…