digital publishing

May 2 2013

Thursday News: Author Solutions subject to class action; HarperCollins launches a digital first imprint for mysteries

HarperCollins to launch digital-first mystery imprint, with monthly royalty payments – The idea of no advance in a traditional publishing world is really groundbreaking outside of romance. Yet HarperCollins is going to do this for mystery books. “HarperCollins’ William Morrow division will launch Witness, a digital-first imprint for mysteries and thrillers, this October, the company(…)

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Friday News: First World Problems

Apr 26 2013

Friday News: First World Problems

  I came across this picture and this video while browsing Reddit.  Rajesh Kumar Sharma founded a free school in the slums of India.  Their schoolroom is a space under a bridge.  Their blackboards are concrete walls.  First world problems are anything that doesn’t include having to gain an education under a bridge in a(…)

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Tuesday News: Deleted ad suggests possible Amazon retail presence in London; Cover Cafe looks at publisher cover trends; not all fiction bestsellers have ebook edition

Apr 23 2013

Tuesday News: Deleted ad suggests possible Amazon retail presence in London; Cover Cafe looks at publisher cover trends; not all fiction bestsellers have ebook edition

2013 Romance Cover Trends – Stairs, Dresses and Fences…Oh My!  Linnae at the Cover Cafe points out a few trends from stairways to dresses to fences. The big big big dress that looks like it is spawning five other dresses has been around for a while. I’m not in love with it. Cover Cafe How(…)

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Tuesday News: Giving blood helps save lives; Kobo lauches new reading device; eBooks 23% of US sales

Apr 16 2013

Tuesday News: Giving blood helps save lives; Kobo lauches new reading device; eBooks 23% of US sales

Massachusetts and Rhode Island Blood Donations | American Red Cross – You have probably already heard but more than one explosion occurred in Boston yesterday, two near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, resulting in numerous injuries and casualties. One thing that people can do in circumstances like these is to donate blood. This(…)

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Friday News: Google’s Top Trending author; B&N giving away ebooks in store; PressBooks goes open source

Dec 21 2012

Friday News: Google’s Top Trending author; B&N giving away ebooks in store; PressBooks goes open source

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(…)

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Tuesday News: More on the Penguin Random House deal

Oct 30 2012

Tuesday News: More on the Penguin Random House deal

The Curse of the Sympathetic Character – LitLove talks about the sympathetic character and how problematic it can be when it is directed primarily toward women. It reminds me of a piece I wanted to write and will for next Tuesday about exactly why women are hard on other women.  I don’t necessarily agree with(…)

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Oct 2 2012

Tuesday News: Bella Andre inks print only deal with Harlequin; New digital first imprint launches; Legal Geeks teach contract law via FireFly

New digital imprint launched by ex-Harlequin Marketing Controller – Oliver Rhodes, a former Harlequin Marketing Controller (I’m not really sure what this position is), has launched Bookouture, a new digital publishing imprint which appears to be focused on women. The press release stated:  “At Bookouture we’re offering authors great digital royalties (45% of net receipts);(…)

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Friday Midday Links: Hachette releases unreadable ebook for JK Rowling; Pearson adopts Baen business model for tech books; Online defamation in UK

Sep 28 2012

Friday Midday Links: Hachette releases unreadable ebook for JK Rowling; Pearson adopts Baen business model for tech books; Online defamation in UK

J.K. Rowling’s new ebook: Literally unreadable – Thursday, JK Rowling’s new book “The Casual Vacancy” was released and digital readers were treated to a poorly formatted, impossible to read file. After a multitude of complaints, Hachette finally delivered an updated file sometime late yesterday afternoon. I can hardly believe that this was so messed up(…)

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Tuesday News: Almost half of Avon Romance sales are digital; Publishing’s piratical beginnings; Uses for Evernote’s new OCR engine

Aug 28 2012

Tuesday News: Almost half of Avon Romance sales are digital; Publishing’s piratical beginnings; Uses for Evernote’s new OCR engine

Create a Searchable Catalog of Your Bookshelf by Snapping a Picture into Evernote – Evernote is evolving into one of the best Apps available. Not only is it full featured but it is free. Two unique uses include Evernote’s built in OCR capabilities that it launched with a new budget scanning service 1DollarScan (which has(…)

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Thursday News: Google Street View is Antarctica; eBooks Dominant Single Format; Classics re-released with sex scenes

Jul 19 2012

Thursday News: Google Street View is Antarctica; eBooks Dominant Single Format; Classics re-released with sex scenes

Google Street View Now Lets You Walk Around Antarctica – “Google released new 360-degree views of select sites in Antarctica on Tuesday for Google Street View, allowing Web users to virtually navigate the frozen continent. “The goal of these efforts is to provide scientists and travel (or penguin) enthusiasts all over the world with the most(…)

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Monday News: Tilt Shift Photography; Changes in Romance Covers; YA Self Censorship

Jul 16 2012

Monday News: Tilt Shift Photography; Changes in Romance Covers; YA Self Censorship

30 Tremendous Examples of Tilt-Shift Photography – “Tilt-Shift photography is an amazing part of talent in which photographer utilizes his skills and technique of photography that develops tilt-shift lenses to beat the boundaries of strength of ground and outlook that normal lenses present” Bloggs 74 Let’s start the day out with something cool. I love tilt(…)

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Let the Tail Wag the Dog

May 6 2012

Let the Tail Wag the Dog

Last week, Laura Hazard Owen of Paid Content tabulated that about 500,000 digital copies of Harry Potter have been sold since their release on March 27, 2012. Harry Potter series have reportedly sold 450 million copies in print. Despite those record breaking print sales prior to the official digital release and that there were illegal digital(…)

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Publisher Experiments I’d Like to See

Apr 29 2012

Publisher Experiments I’d Like to See

In the past two weeks, we’ve seen two publishers engage in some experimental changes in the way they sell digital books. Sourcebooks launched a DRM free subscription site and TOR/FORGE announced it would be selling DRM free digital books beginning this summer. Traditional publishers have been quietly moving toward digital first programs for a couple(…)

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Apr 2 2012

Monday Midday Links: Reuters Reports Agency Pricing Settlement Likely & Everyone Hates Amazon

News On Friday, Reuters reported that Apple and five of the Big 6 publishers are moving toward settlement.  My guess is that either Random House is arguing that it wasn;t involved in any collusive activity as it’s decision to move toward Agency came far later and based on market influence rather than any collusion or(…)

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