If you have been following publishing blogs and digital technology websites over the past few days, then you may have read about a proposed software application for the iPad called Story Surgeon. It’s the brainchild of Ryan Hancock, a writer and app creator, and a little over a week ago Hancock launched a Kickstarter project…
Random House Digital Imprints | It’s a duck!
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it’s a duck. Late last year, Random House, one of the big six publishing houses (now five following the US Department of Justice’s approval of the merger deal with Penguin), launched three digital-only publishing imprints alongside its already existing digital…
US Law Firm Investigates Author Solutions For Class Action Suit | UPDATED
The office of US attorneys, Giskan Solotaroff Anderson & Stewart LLP, have been carrying out an investigation into practices of the publishing industry’s largest self-publishing service, Author Solutions Inc. based in Bloomington, Indiana. Giskan Solotaroff Anderson & Stewart LLP represent employees in employment and civil rights matters, consumers and small businesses in class actions, individuals…
Wise Words: When Authors are Consumers
There are some caveats of advice in the self-publishing world worth repeating more than once. When you pay and contract the services of any company willing to publish your book, you are first and foremost a consumer, not an author. It’s readers who make a writer an author. No company, whether service provider or traditional…
I did not have publishing relations with that self-publishing provider
It is hard not to see today’s press release by Simon & Schuster UK as a direct and aggressive reaction to the wave of negative publicity surrounding last week’s launch of self-publishing imprint Archway Publishing, which will be run by Author Solutions, the giant self-publishing solutions provider every author of a writing blog is suddenly queuing…
Authors – Know Your Rights! | WriterBeware
One of the benefits of taking a break from writing online for a period of time means that you can repost a piece you wrote many moons ago that readers found helpful or brought increased traffic to your web site. I do it on occasion when workload prevents me keeping The Independent Publishing Magazine updated…
Class Action Law Suit Filed in Maryland Against PublishAmerica
The breaking news this evening, via Victoria Strauss, is that a class action law suit has been filed against PublishAmerica in the state of Maryland. The action was filed yesterday by Darla Yoos, Edwin McCall and Kerri Levine and “others similarly situated” in a 55 page document. From the opening pages of the law suit:…
New Generation Publishing – When Not To Press Release!
I get a large amount of press releases every day to do with publishing, self-publishing, book launches and other kinds of literary events. Some of the press releases are sent to me ‘on-spec’ as it were, others come via an alert feed I have set up with several fee and non-fee press release agencies. The…
Leo Hunter, 6, lands a mega deal for 23 books – mirror.co.uk!?
What started out as a literary heart-warming story when the UK Mirror newspaper ran with this, turned into a ‘Yikes’ story when I discovered the US publisher was Strategic Book Publishing…….ahem!! Why don’t journalist do some research before running with a story like this? A lot more about Strategic Book Publishing on the AbsoluteWrite link…
Writer Beware!: PW Select: Opportunity or Exploitation?
Victoria Strauss has written a lengthy piece on authors paying for their book to be reviewed with a primary focus on Publishers Weekly‘s new paid review service PW Select. There are also some extensive comments to her piece. Writer Beware� Blogs!: PW Select: Opportunity or Exploitation? Related articles by Zemanta Jodi Picoult attacks favouritism towards…
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