It’s fair to say that digital publishing is in a state of flux. In the last year, markets shifted drastically. Average ebook prices soared, distribution options simultaneously became fewer and more innovative, retailers tried varied attempts to combat a glut of not-quite-quality-assured content and there was a concerted, industry-wide effort to crack down on piracy.…
GUEST POST: Independent Authors Need to Know Their Rights | Tom Chalmers
If you have been in or around the book industry over the last year, you cannot have missed the rise of the independent author. There’s a new story every day: more authors going indie, more services for indie authors, and more indie authors selling more books. There are some fantastic stories of authors who have…
Author (R)evolution Day: O’Reilly TOC for Publishing Conference 2013 | Live Stream
Author (R)evolution Day: O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference 2013 – O’Reilly Conferences, February 12 – 14, 2013, New York, NY You can watch the O’Reilly Tools of Change Publishing Conference Live Stream of Author (R)evolution Day from the Marriott Marquis in New York currently taking place. Just click the link above. The Live Stream is free…
Guest Post | New Technologies and Self-Publishing: The Pros and Cons by Katheryn Rivas
There’s no doubt about it, we’re neck deep in the Digital Age. With so many aspects of our lives taking place plugged in and online, very few of us can deny that the digital world—once so foreign and unfamiliar—is now different from just the world we live in. Our world—the world of the everyday—is the…
IndieReader Announces the Winners of First IRDA
PRESS RELEASE: IndieReader Announces the Winners of First “IndieReader Discovery Awards” at BEA 6/3/12, Montclair, New Jersey—Darcie Chan, New York Times bestselling indie author of “The Mill River Recluse” and Amy Edelman, founder of IndieReader (www.indiereader.com), today announced the winners of the first annual “IndieReader Discovery Awards” (IRDA) at BEA in New York City. IndieReader,…
Beautiful Books enters administration | The Bookseller
Beautiful Books enters administration | The Bookseller: Some sad news to report from The Bookseller this morning… “Independent publisher Beautiful Books entered administration earlier today (11th October). The company has ceased to trade and four members of staff have been made redundant. A spokesperson for London firm Leonard Curtis, the administrating company, said those handling…
2011 Next Generation Indie Book Awards | Winners and Finalists
The winners of the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Awards have been announced by the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group in cooperation with Marilyn Allen of the Allen O’Shea Literary Agency. This year the awards were presented at the Plaza Hotel, New York City. Overall Grand Prize Winners: Fiction FIRST PLACE WINNER ($1,500 PRIZE)Carny: A…
Time We All Took The ‘Self’ From Self-Publishing
In 2010 I wrote an article about Lulu, and in the title for the article, I suggested that It May Be The Time For Lulu To Drop The Self From Self-Publishing. At the end of that article I wrote the following as an explanation as to what I meant. On reflection, and in light of the following Lulu…
Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #3 — The Book Designer
Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #3 — The Book Designer Featured Posts Jane Friedman presents When (or Why) Social Media Fails to Sell Books posted at There Are No Rules. “Social media is about developing relationships and a readership over the long term that helps bolster your entire career (and sales too). When people claim that social media…
Sue Collier: “Author Solutions is NOT indie publishing, folks.” | Self-Publishing Resources
Author Solutions is NOT indie publishing, folks. | Self-Publishing Resources: “To start, we have “ indie book publishing leader Author Solutions.” Say what? Authors Solutions is NOT — I repeat, NOT — an indie book publishing anything, let alone “leader.” Authors Solutions is a vanity press (aka subsidy press). It is a pay-to-publish service wherein…