International-bestselling author Seth Godin and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that Godin’s new publishing imprint “The Domino Project” will publish an initial list of six titles using Amazon’s new “Powered By Amazon” publishing program. Powered by Amazon enables authors to use Amazon’s global distribution, multiple format production capabilities, including print, audio and digital, as well…
IndieReader Invites Essay Submissions for New Title
IndieReader is inviting contributions for a forthcoming book of essays entitled, “The Care & Feeding of Indie Authors: Writing, Sex and Ramen Noodles“. From Amy Elderman of Indie Reader: I wanted to give you the head’s up that the folks at IndieReader are compiling a book of essays (800-1000 words) by indie writers entitled, “The…
Rushkoff Goes Independent with OR Books
Best-selling author Douglas Rushkoff moves to Independent POD publisher, OR Books, and explains why in this self-written article in Arthur Magazine. Contrary to some blog post I’ve seen on the Internet, Rushkoff is not ‘self-publishing’, but has simply chosen an alternative publishing model to the tradition path. I broadly agree with where Rushkoff is coming from…
Fulmer and The Blind Book Translator of Paris
Back in February of this year, we took a look at Five Stones Press as part of our series of Publishing Innovators. Mystery novelist David Fulmer from Atlanta Georgia, with the support of two business friends, launched his small independent press with its unique business model of fan-base supportive publishing. “Fulmer decided if he was…
Publishers Weekly Asks ‘Can Sales Reps Survive?’
Judith Rosen, writing in this morning’s Publishers Weekly, looks at the changing role of sales representatives at large publishing houses and smaller independent presses, asking the question, ‘Can Sales Reps Survive?’ There is a notable mention of independent sales rep, Lise Solomon, who helped the sales push for Pulitizer Prize-winning book, Tinkers, by Paul Harding, published by Bellevue Literary…
IPPY Awards: A Closer Look
The Independent Book Awards (IPPY) have been announced, and this evening I had a chance to look a little closer at the many categories and medal winners. While I have a great deal of time for the IPPY’s, and it has an important role to play in celebrating independent publishing and self-published books – I…
IPPY Award Winners Announced
This year’s winners of the Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) have been announced. I have not had time to go through the full list, but I will do so over the coming days and produce some analysis. The IPPY’s are awarded in multiple categories and offer gold, silver and bronze medals in each. A full…
Salt Publishing Launch Salt Kids Imprint
Independent Poetry publisher Salt Publishing has launched a new imprint, Salt Kids. From their About page. “The online home of Salt Publishing’s literature publishing for children. Providing a wealth of poetry resources, information, news, features and fun for children, their parents and teachers. Salt is one of the few UK publishers with an active children’s…
e-Books and The Ever-Decreasing Circlets of Hardback Books
Yesterday we looked at Amazon’s latest move in their stand-off with Penguin (Pearson Group) over negotiations on the implementation of the agent model on e-books by the major publishing houses. Amazon have reduced some new penguin titles in hardback to $9.99 to telegraph to their customers that they want control and flexibility on retail pricing…
Bookmasters Launch CONVERSO: A Creation & Digital Distribution Solution
The Bookmasters Group, the Ohio-based global publishing service for small presses and mid-sized publishers, has today announced the launch of CONVERSO, a digital content conversion solution. CONVERSO is a global service which will create an e-book, convert it to any format (EPUB, EPDF, PRC, Flash, HTML 5, Blio etc) and distribute it to more than…