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Monday News: Prison Break Cat-style; Bluetooth Stickers; Publishing trends for 2013

Monday News: Prison Break Cat-style; Bluetooth Stickers; Publishing trends for 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(…)

Tuesday News: New retail revenue models for publishing

Tuesday News: New retail revenue models for publishing

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(…)

Tuesday News: BDSM prosecution worries advocates; Google & Amazon financial arms; Spotify model failing

Tuesday News: BDSM prosecution worries advocates; Google & Amazon financial arms; Spotify model failing

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(…)

Friday Midday Links: Nancy Coffey Literary & Media Representation Responds to DeGaying YA claims

Friday Midday Links: Nancy Coffey Literary & Media Representation Responds to DeGaying YA claims

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(…)

Digital book subscriptions

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"](…)

Napster Re-Reinvents Itself as a Subscription Service

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(…)

Subscription Service Poll

[poll id="154"] A new small print publisher is offering a subscription service for an experimental imprint, Paper Egg.   For $20, a reader receives two books per year, either novella, flash fiction or short story with illustrations.   The print run of each book will be dependent on the number of subscribers and made available only to(…)

Ebook Reader + Subscription Rental Model Poll

[poll id="150"] I was honestly thinking about this last night, but rebjy spotted something that indicates maybe I’m not the only one who thinks it might be plausible. The idea would be for a publisher, say Penguin, to offer an ebook Reader + book bundle subscription rent to own model. You could run this so(…)

Harvard to Publish Free Online?

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(…)