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Top Ten Things Publishers Could Do to Help Readers Buy Books

By Jane • Jul 22nd, 2008 • Category: Letters of Opinion, Misc

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1. Label the books in a series either on the spine or on the front or both (preferably the spine if that is the only place). I.e., Kresley Cole’s Hunger Like No Other is Book 2 in the Immortals After Dark Series so it should have #2 on [...]


Jonathan Karp on the State of Publishing (look dire)

By Jane • Jul 21st, 2008 • Category: Publishing News

Jonathan Karp’s* piece in the Dallas Morning News on Sunday confirms many of the feelings I have about the state of publishing today. It’s overcrowded and publishers are driven to almost gimmick like lengths to make money. (No. 5 on his list of ways to produce growth was “Cut costs, pray to the gods [...]