Tag Archives: Literary fiction
How the Lit Fic Crowd Can Make Digital Publishing Legitimate

How the Lit Fic Crowd Can Make Digital Publishing Legitimate

Last September I blogged that Literary Fiction should embrace digital publishing because “the psuedo profit sharing that the new arm of HarperCollins is testing: no advances, higher royalties” made sense for the embattled publishing industry.
E publishing, with its low overhead, provides a safety net for experimental fiction, the bailiwick of literary fiction. E [...]

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LA Times Wonders if Lit Fic Can Be Helped by Sexier Covers

LA Times Wonders if Lit Fic Can Be Helped by Sexier Covers

Man titty for everyone, I say. LA Times Book Blog wondered today if lit fic would sell better if its covers weren’t so anemic. If you recall, Stephen King had the same complaint regarding a book he had recommended. Fieldwork was a thriller set in Thailand, but the cover was of [...]

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Why Literary Fiction Should Embrace Digital Publishing

Why Literary Fiction Should Embrace Digital Publishing

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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” [...]

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