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(…)
Nov 13 2012
Bookboard tries Netflix-like model for kids’ ebooks – Bookboard (not to be confused with Books on Board like I initially did upon reading this story) is a new digital retailer designed to deliver Netflix like access to children’s books. It is currently free during the public beta, but the commercial launch will occur somewhere in(…)
Oct 9 2012
Evidence being presented in Missouri sex abuse case raise questions about consent vs. crime – “Ed Bagley faces a federal trial early next year on 11 counts of abuse against a woman authorities say he groomed to be his sex slave. Now prosecutors plan to present consensual, though violent, acts between Bagley and his own(…)
Sep 16 2011
Joanna Stampfel Volpe was allowed to use the blog of former agent, Colleen Lindsey, to respond to the claims made by authors Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith that they were asked to make the gay character straight, or else remove his viewpoint and all references to his sexual orientation. The authors stated that they(…)
Apr 24 2011
In 2009, we visited the idea of subscriptions in the form of a couple of two different models. The first was whether readers would be interested in an ebook reader rent to own sort of deal, kind of like cell phone subscriptions. 186 respondents said yes whereas 109 said no. 100 were uninterested. [poll id="150"](…)
May 18 2009
For a small $5.00 per month, you can stream music from Napster’s library of over 7 million song titles and download five mp3s to keep as your own. I’m not sure the profitability of this model, but I’m curious to see what publishing house or retailer will offer a subscription based ebook club. Harlequin? Send(…)
Feb 17 2009
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Feb 13 2008
The Harvard faculty will be deciding next week whether to start publishing their scholarship free online. It would only pertain to their arts and sciences faculty. In the current system scholarship is published in journals which subscriptions can be very costly. The journals also are read by a very small population. Each author though could(…)
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