Jan 10 2013
23 Reasons Why Facebook Couples Are The Worst – Buzzfeed has made a list of why Facebook couples should cease to exist. The reasons run the gamut from thirteen year olds celebrating their proposals of marriage to a woman morose that her man is cheating on her by decided to stay with his wife. There(…)
Jan 9 2013
Target Pledges to Price Match Amazon Year-Round – Target is pledging to price match Amazon and other online retailers. The catch is that the product must be exact and because Target sells a lot of private label products, it’s not likely to eat into Target’s profit margin. Plus, Mulpuru pointed out, going through the Guest(…)
Jan 8 2013
New Distribution Partnership And Joint Venture Between Macmillan, St. Martin’s Press, And Entangled – World News Report – Entangled has partnered with Macmillan to distribute Entangled’s books “in all domestic and international markets and for all platforms where Macmillan currently does business.” It is unstated whether this new distribution deal will represent an increase in(…)
Jan 7 2013
Seven publishing trends that will define 2013 – While this article addresses primarily publishing for newspapers and magazines, there are things to be extrapolated into long form fiction. Hamish McKenzie suggests that in 2013, we will see more of everything. This is a safe set of predictions but digging deeper provides a few nuggets. We(…)
Jan 4 2013
Barnes & Noble Booksellers – Every segment of B&N’s holiday sales were down compared to last year. The Retail segment made up of brick & mortar stores and sales of items through bn.com were down 10.9%. Nook segment sales were down 12.6% overall even though digital content sales were up 13.1%. The majority of the(…)
Jan 3 2013
Indie Bookstores Have Big Holiday Sales – I’m not sure whether a few stores is an industry marker, but PW reports that indie bookstores in several states have enjoyed robust holiday sales. Barnes & Noble holiday sales were not as promising but the full results won’t be revealed until today. PublishersWeekly ESPN shows husband kissing(…)
Jan 2 2013
Introduction All the news today is about Dear Author and what you can look forward to in 2013. We also want to hear from you what you would like to read more about. Dear Author Promotes Retail Diversity As of January 1, 2013, we will no longer review books that are not available in at(…)
Jan 1 2013
It is hard to believe that this is 2013 already. I feel like the year passed by in a whirl. 2013, for me, was the year of the self published book where we found gems and goats. The Kindle, digital reading and self publishing is remaking the world of books. I’m not sure where it(…)
Dec 31 2012
The Music They Made –NYTimes is experimenting with video, sound, and visual applications to move into the 21st century. This is a collection of music snippets celebrating artists who died in 2012. NYTimes.com NOOK Media Announces Strategic Investment by Pearson – Pearson is investing $89 million in Nook Media, the digital media arm of Barnes(…)
Dec 28 2012
Swoon Reads Introduces Crowdsourced Publishing Model – Macmillan is taking up where HarperCollins Inkpop left off. HarperCollins launched Inkpop in 2010 and invited writers to come and share their material with others. HarperCollins acquired at least one manuscript from the writers on Inkpop. HC sold Inkpop to Figment in 2012. For Macmillan, Swoon Reads invites(…)
Dec 27 2012
Randi Zuckerberg Is Just as Confused by Facebook Privacy as You Are – Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, generally believes people should live their private lives publicly or at least that is how he runs Facebook with the privacy settings constantly changing and always requiring an opt in action by users to keep their information(…)
Dec 26 2012
Did you get a tablet for Christmas? If so, here are a few posts that give you an idea what you should load onto your tablet: Geekwire’s advice for the new Surface. Pocket-lint: The first five iPad mini apps. DailyBeast: A list for every tablet owner from the iPad to the Surface to the Android(…)
Dec 24 2012
HarperCollins Results Fell in Fiscal 2012 – HarperCollins numbers were down in 2012 due to a drop in print sales that was partially offset by digital sales. Ebooks accounted for about 15% of HC’s global revenue. Publishers Weekly In reporting results, News Corp. broke down HC revenue into consumer and other, although it doesn’t identify(…)
Dec 21 2012
What does an open-source book publishing platform look like? We’re about to find out – Hugh McGuire, the innovator behind PressBook, is offering the software under the open source license. McGuire hopes that the ebook making software will attract other developers who will create add-ons and extend the utility of the ebook making software. I(…)
Dec 20 2012
A Message from John Sargent – I hardly know what to say in response to John Sargent’s letter to authors, agents, and retailers. I feel that I am being gaslighted. That rational behavior has been supplanted by a made up morality issue. Sargent writes that he intends to press on and litigate against the DOJ(…)
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