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Why Literary Fiction Should Embrace Digital Publishing

Sep 21 2008

Why Literary Fiction Should Embrace Digital Publishing

Photo by takomabibelot Kassia Kroszer of Booksquare fame posted on Friday an article addressing the publishing industry’s failure to recognize its own money making potential. Publishing views itself on the decline. Print newspaper book review sections have gone the way of the dinosaur. According to the article in NY Magazine, “serious readers” numbered around 120,000 [...]

By Jane • Ebooks • 19 • Tags: , , , ,

May 15 2007

All The News That Is Fit To Print. For the Rest, There Are Blogs

There has been a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth in the publishing realm over the downsizing or wholesale elimination of newspaper print review sections due to lack of advertising dollars. Atlanta Journal Constitution’s Book Review section was the latest casualty. AJC’s decision to terminate Book editor, Teresa Weaver, started a print and blogging [...]

By Jane • Letters of Opinion • 49 • Tags: , , ,