Do Publishers Expect Authors To Market Themselves?
Last week I over-read someone on Twitter saying that ‘Trad pub expect authors to do most marketing these days’. I jumped in with my contrarian…
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Digital rises, print declines, sky blue: Publisher’s Association releases 2011 figures
Time to blow off that screening of The Avengers you were planning on catching this evening, because something far more exciting has come up: statistics,…
Did it all for the Nook e-reader: Microsoft invests $300 million in Barnes & Noble
Having had quite enough of all these knee-cappings and assorted other cripplings at the hands of Amazon, American bookselling chain Barnes & Noble has announced…
Tor Swaps DRM for PR
Last week’s breaking news from the USA was that Macmillan SFF imprint Tor have pledged to their readers that by ‘early July 2012, their entire…
“That’s our Hitler!”: Mein Kampf to be republished after understandable absence from German shelves
After all the huffing and puffing earlier in the week from parents concerned that their children were about to start talking like old-timey hobos who’ve…
Bunch of stupid peabrains try to ban books from libraries for their ignoramus kids
If you’re worried your dander hasn’t been got up much of late, take a wander over to The Telegraph – no, not for the usual…
Kickstarter: publishing so indie it hurts (in a good way).
Did you ever have a super-indie friend when you were younger? The kind who would have a party catered by his friend who owned a…
BookMachine launches ‘YourEvent’: host your own BookMachine publishing party!
BookMachine YourEvent At the packed, and mighty fine INPN session held at this week’s London Book Fair, we were excited to announce our new project…
Audible basically the witch from Hansel & Gretel now
Earlier this month, Audible announced that it would start paying authors whose audiobooks are listed on any of its sites what it called an ‘honorarium’…
6 Questions for Influx Press [INTERVIEW]
Influx Press is a new independent publisher that specialises in site-specific fiction. ‘Acquired for development by…’ is a collection of short stories and is…
Faber to release Shakespearean sonnets app, give wedding speakers excuse to hold iPad
They are some of the most famous lines of poetry in the English language: ‘Shall I compare thee to an iPhone 4? / Thou art…
An Eye On Global Publishing Innovation at LBF
There’s been a lot of bad shit going on in publishing of late. Stuff that genuinely makes me worried, and I think rightfully so, about…
Two of the ‘Big Six’ refuse to sign contracts with underworld kingpin Amazon
There are two ways we can deal with the news that two of the ‘Big Six’ US publishers have reportedly refused to sign new contracts…
The one time people pay attention to poetry, Günter Grass ends up barred from Israel
In a seasonally appropriate flare-up of tensions (happy Pesach, fellow goys!), Nobel laureate Günter Grass has been declared unwelcome in Israel following the publication last…
Pottermore sells £1 million in three days; Rowling instructs minions ‘just throw it on the pile’
So: Harry Potter, eh? We’re all pretty much done with that, right? I mean, seven of the bestselling books of the last 20 years, the…
