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June 7, 2017

Wednesday News: Book industry, Twitter funding, TV adaptations, and the RBG workout

JanetPublishing NewsBook Expo / publishing industry / Ruth Bader Ginsberg / tech investment / tv adaptations / Twitter / work-out bookComments Off on Wednesday News: Book industry, Twitter funding, TV adaptations, and the RBG workout

Book industry looks to hold steady in turbulent time – So despite all the optimistic talk of print books and independent bookstores coming back in vogue, the book industry is still on edge. I have long thought that publishers mistakenly saw (see?) themselves as a natural monopoly, so it’s fascinating to ... more >

October 7, 2015

REVIEW: Named of the Dragon by Susanna Kearsley

JayneB- Reviewsauthor / child in jeopardy / enemies to lovers / myth / Paranormal / publishing industry / reissue / Wales11 Comments

Although it goes against her workaholic nature, literary agent Lyn Ravenshaw lets herself be whisked off to Wales for the Christmas holidays by her star client, flamboyant children’s author Bridget Cooper. She suspects Bridget has ulterior motives, but the lure of South Wales with its castles and myths is irresistible. ... more >

March 2, 2014

Is genre fiction creating a market for lemons?

SunitaEbooks / EssaysBig 5 publishers / publishing industry / reviews / Self-publishing198 Comments

In 1970 George Akerlof (Nobel Prize winner in Economics 2001) wrote a scholarly article called “The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism.” In true academic fashion, the article was deemed trivial by the top journals and he finally landed it in a highly-ranked but not flagship publication. ... more >

Fortune Teller Cat
February 16, 2014

How (not) to lie with statistics

SunitaEbooks / Letters of OpinionAmazon / author earnings report / publishing industry / Self-publishing122 Comments

I’ve been looking at the Author Earnings Excel spreadsheets (the “raw data”) for the last few days. Many people have become very, very excited by the conclusions the authors draw from this data, and critics have consistently been shouted down as being pro-publisher, anti-self-publishing, or having various other axes to grind. ... more >

January 14, 2010

Thursday Midday Links: Is Barnes&Noble Targeted for Takeover

JaneBook ReviewsBarnes & Noble / Ebooks / plagiarism / publishing industry18 Comments

A friend sent me this link to a fanfiction author who completed a 100,000 word novel. She never thought she could accomplish such a task but now that she has, she is energized and is thinking about actual publication of future work. The comment thread is what is so interesting ... more >

December 21, 2009

Monday Midday Links: Lisa Valdez’s Patience Gets a Firm Release Date

JaneFeatures / Publishing NewsE-books / Ebooks / Julia Spencer-Fleming / Lisa-Valdez / NYTimes / publishing industry / Random-House27 Comments

The UK focused publishing site, The Bookseller, had an article that suggests the delay of ebooks could only strengthen Amazon instead of weakening it. UK trade insider warned deferral was dangerous. “It is never a good response to say to a consumer: "We know you want this but we are ... more >

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