Publishing NewsAfrica / children's lit / literacy / Literary fiction / non-profits / online retailers / Orwell / recipes / shopping2 Comments
How the e-retailers keep us spending – With another big US shopping day ahead of us (New Year’s Day), this is an interesting piece on how online retailers have been moving in the direction of globalizing local celebrations, holidays, or traditional spending days (e.g. Black Friday) to capture the global ... more >
Publishing NewsAfrica / Agency pricing / Amazon / booksellers / colonialism / Contest / Hachette / internet sales / Literary fiction / maps / Microsoft / sales tax / software / use tax10 Comments
Updated: Amazon and Hachette finally reach deal; Hachette will set its ebook prices – The war appears to be over between Hachette and Amazon, and whatever the state of their relationship, readers get the return of Agency Pricing. Yippee. When the new ebook terms take place in early 2015, “Hachette ... more >
Publishing NewsAgency pricing / Amazon / Art / charity / competition / copyright / Ebooks / editors / Harper Collins / Literary fiction / music industry / Open Road / Penguin8 Comments
Open Road Dodges $1 Million Bullet in Copyright Case – In its bid to be awarded attorneys fees of more than $1M dollars, Harper Collins argued that Open Road’s contract to publish Julie of The Wolves as an ebook was “objectively unreasonable” — that is, so clearly wrong that Harper ... more >
Publishing Newsalgorithms / Book Awards / Facebook / Guinness World Record / Jane Austen / Literary fiction / news feeds / Twitpic / Twitter3 Comments
Twitpic Is No Longer Shutting Down – Although there have been no other details forthcoming, I’m hoping that TwitPic’s tweet today means that we won’t lose this vital support service for Twitter: “We’re happy to announce we’ve been acquired and Twitpic will live on! We will post more details as ... more >
Publishing NewsApple / autobiography / diversity / gender / genre fiction / Literary fiction / Orange Prize / pregnancy / Satire / technology / television / virginity / Womens-Fiction8 Comments
A fun exercise in speculation: Would I buy Apple’s rumored products? – As anticipation builds about next Tuesday’s Apple announcement(s), so does speculation about what product(s) will be introduced and what priorities consumers will exercise. Apple is holding a media event September 9th, so I’m going to engage in a ... more >
Publishing Newsauthors / crowdfunding / diversity / Goodreads / James Baldwin / Literary fiction / publishing / Race / racism / reviews / Self-publishing3 Comments
To Achieve Diversity In Publishing, A Difficult Dialogue Beats Silence – A thought-provoking post about how much change needs to come to publishing in order to truly diversify both the industry and the literary voices that are brought to the public. Not only do more and different stories need to ... more >