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…
Patchett Rallies Author Troops to Get Involved With Health of The Publishing Industry
Every so often authors immersed in the traditional world of publishing pop their heads above the precipice and make grandiose statements about independent publishing, the retail book trade, and, in particular, self-publishing and self-published authors. Garrison Keillor tried it prior to Book Expo 2010 with an article for the New York Times, and last summer…
Amazon launches CreateSpace in Europe | The Bookseller
Amazon launches CreateSpace in Europe | The Bookseller “Amazon has launched its CreateSpace today (17th May) in Europe, which means that authors who self-publish in the UK can have their books accessed in European countries and the US. Amazon’s CreateSpace platform, which has been running in the US since 2007, will now allow self-published authors…
The Alliance of Independent Authors Set To Launch Internationally
News this morning from The Bookseller that a new non-profit society for self-published authors will come as a very welcome development. Founded by author and literary agent, Orna Ross, The Alliance of Independent Authors will be fully launched in the coming weeks. It will be interesting to see how this goes and what the full…
In depth: self-publishing | The Bookseller | Alison Baverstock
In depth: self-publishing | The Bookseller Self-publishing has had a bad reputation. And if authors feel nervous confessing they have dabbled—or even considered pursuing this path—choosing to research and write about it is doubly disreputable. Nevertheless, that is what I have done in writing a guide to self-publishing, The Naked Author.” Related articles An in-depth…
Authonomy launches digital imprint | The Bookseller
Authonomy launches digital imprint The Bookseller Authonomy, HarperCollins’ writing community for unpublished authors, is launching a new imprint with plans to publish 12 titles per year as digital editions. The Independent Publishing Magazine | TIPM Media
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…
Faber adds sales force for indies | The Bookseller
Faber adds sales force for indies The Bookseller “Faber has launched a new sales force for diverse independent publishers dubbed Faber Factory Plus. Six publishers, Gallic Books, Arcadia Books, Pushkin Press, Bloodaxe Books, Carcanet Press and Gibson Square, have already signed up to the list, which will launch in March 2012.” Related articles Perseus Forms…
The book is not dead: but long live the book | FutureBook
The book is not dead: but long live the book | FutureBook: There are few publishing analysts like Philip Jones prepared to take a knife and cut through the media crap pedaled about the doom and gloom in publishing and the imminent demise of ‘the book’. This is another first class piece he has written…
OFT set to probe Book Depository deal | The Bookseller
OFT set to probe Book Depository deal The Bookseller Several media sources – including The Bookseller – are reporting this morning that the Office of Fair Trading in the UK is to examine Amazon‘s announced acquisition of online book retailer, The Book Depository. The OFT has formally invited interested parties to forward written comments to their…