Publishing Newsadvances / Angela-James / Apple / book business / Conventions / digital publishing / marketing23 Comments
Dear RWA: It looks like next year, you’ll have to disqualify at least one New York publishing house from the RITAs next year. Hopefully you have someone looking into this right now and will be making an announcement in the interest of fairness and equity. According to an editor, one ... more >
Publishing NewsBook-Expo-America / Conventions15 Comments
Book Expo America is underway. It is one of the largest (if not the largest) trade shows for the publishing business. For those of us stuck at home, we can follow along the attendees activities on twitter by searching the hashtag #bea09. Conventions are a mainstay of the science ... more >
Publishing NewsBook-Expo-America / Conventions1 Comments
BookExpo Canada (aka BEC) has suffered a series of blows with major publishers deciding not to attend this year’s trade show in Canada. Today Reed has decided to cancel the event altogether. The BEC guy sounds morose and sad: Greg Topalian, senior v-p for Reed Exhibitions, said, however, that it ... more >
Letters of OpinionCelebrate-Romance / Conventions12 Comments
I’ve been a romance reader since I was in high school, but during my school years, I read alone. I didn’t know anyone else who read romance – a few of my friends might pick up a Nora Roberts book a couple of times a year, but that was all. ... more >
Publishing NewsConventions31 Comments
PenguiCon is an “Annual combined science fiction and fantasy convention with Linux and open source programming expo.” Also it is a place that if you wear a button, you can be groped by anonymous strangers at any time. Usually a person can get paid for being the subject of anonymous ... more >
Publishing NewsConventions26 Comments
New Vanity and Subsidy Publisher Definitions from RWA were announced after a board meeting on July 25th. This is the entirety of the decision found at RWA website. * * * At the request of members, the Board has re-visited the definitions of “Subsidy Publisher” and “Vanity Publisher.” After considering ... more >