Interviewscover-art17 Comments
If you look at the top selling New Adult books on the market, you may be surprised to learn that they are almost all created by the same cover designer, one Sarah from Okay Creations. Sarah is so identifiable and that there is a goodreads list designated just for her. ... more >
Publishing NewsBarnes & Noble / cover-art / Cover-Cafe / digital lending / Simon & Schuster27 Comments
Simon & Schuster Overcomes BN Issues with Rising Profits and Small Sales Drop | Publishers Lunch – B&N is still refusing to stock S&S books in large quantities but S&S’s position, according to PublishersMarketplace, hasn’t hurt them much. Ebooks accounted for 30% of post holiday sales in quarter one but ... more >
Publishing Newscover-art / free-book15 Comments
Google’s Media Barons – John R. MacArthur, the publisher of Harper’s Magazine, has published a strange op ed piece arguing that Google is engaged in “for profit theft” by providing “logistical support for pirating and repackaging everything that we writers, editors, and publishers hold dear.” I’m not exactly sure what ... more >
Publishing NewsApple / cover-art / Harlequin / social media12 Comments
CBS says it won’t interfere in CNET’s ‘actual news,’ just reviews – At the end of CES, the Hopper DVR by DISH was voted best of the conference until CBS forced its subsidiary CNET employees to overturn their votes. CBS is in litigation with DISH and didn’t want DISH to ... more >
Publishing Newscover-art / Harlequin8 Comments
Analyzing 2012?s Bestselling Books and Ebooks in the US and UK | Publishing Perspectives – Mainstream publishing in 2012 was hit driven and over half of the 2012 bestselling books where either 50 Shades or Hunger Games titles. The only other selling book of note was a Wimpy Kid title. ... more >
Publishing NewsBarnes & Noble / cover-art / Intellectual Property Issues15 Comments
Barnes & Noble reportedly instructs local stores to pull Amazon titles – Some Barnes & Noble stores were carrying Amazon published books until it was reported by blogger MobyLives (who has several Amazon is killing publishing posts). Now B&N has sent a company wide email instructing those books to be removed ... more >