Combining ebooks, audiobooks and eventual paperbacks in episodic eSeries, BigWorldNetwork.com may be the new television for books. Guest poster and Managing Editor at BWN, Amanda Meuwissen explains: BigWorldNetwork.com is The eSeries Network, a new kind of publisher offering serialized online publication of fiction and non-fiction, audio versions of all eSeries episodes, and eventual compilations to…
eBooks For The Bookshelf | Boxette
Have you heard the one about the man who goes into his local bookstore and asks the assistant, ‘where are all those ebooks I keep hearing about? I can’t find a single one on any of your shelves.’ Well, the store assistant might have laughed, but Boxette, a Manchester UK-based ebook production company, is not not…
Dotterel Press – Overview
Dotterel Press is a very small press in the UK founded in 2009 by Tim Atkinson and Gareth Dearson. They describe Dotterel Press as a social enterprise initiative designed to help bring new and talented authors to the attention of a small, discerning readership. “We aim to to sow the seeds of a successful writing…
Book Republic (Maverick House Publishing) – Overview (Updated 2013)
Book Republic was launched in 2010 and describes itself as a ’boutique’ imprint of Irish publisher Maverick House. Based in Dunboyne, Co Meath, Ireland, Book Republic’s operational model of publishing is different in several distinct ways to the standard model of publishing and is similar to Or Books and Publishr, and the now defunct HarperStudio. “What…
Memeoirs: Emails to Book – Overview
Memeoirs is a recently introduced online service allowing users to create a printed book (POD – print-on-demand) based on your own email exchanges. The service reminds me of several websites allowing users to create a book based on their blog or Facebook page. Memeoirs: your emails in a book. Seriously? Yes, no joke. We take…
Milverstead Publishing – Overview
One year ago, almost to the day, Christopher Finlan was in a very different place. Diagnosed with ADD, and believing his life was somehow ruined, he was ready to give up on the life he had built and move to Texas to try and start afresh. But something made Finlan stay with his family in…
Self-Publisher Experience Days: (Author’s Choice) – Overview
The Author’s Choice Partnership is a an endeavour set up by UK self-publishing service, Matador (imprint of Troubador Publishing), and MPG Biddles (MPG Books Group), a book manufacturer specializing in short-to-medium print-runs (lithographic and POD). Although both companies operate in the print and publishing industry independently, Author’s Choice will offer a host of bespoke self-publishing…
Publishr – Overview
All books go through a stage of being a work-in-progress. It could be rightly argued that they remain works in progress until the final edited version rolls off the printer’s assembly line. In many cases, thousands of penned manuscripts every year never escape the perpetual status of a work-in-progress. You could apply the same analogy…
AmazonEncore Announce Six Summer Titles
Amazon announced six more new titles to be published this summer under their AmazonEncore imprint. The six books will be published in print and Kindle editions. I have stated here before that while Amazon may at times give us reason to question their influence on the publishing industry and dominance and tactics as a retailer, AmazonEncore…
Slush Pile Reader – Overview (Updated)
For authors with a book looking for feedback from an online community and have decided against going the self-publishing route, one alternative is a site like Authonomy, set up by HarperCollins as a means to deal with huge slush piles of manuscripts and a pro-active way to select the cream of new and unknown authors…
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