Ebooksdigital publishing / quality33 Comments
A couple of days ago, I received an email with a press release announcing a joint venture of sorts to bring a Publishing Seal of Approval to digital books. The seal will be called QED and it is owned by Digital Book World, a division of F&W Media. Barnes ... more >
Publishing Newsadvances / Apple / Authors Guild / criticism-of-romance / Ebooks / George RR Martin / Google Book Settlement / quality / Reader Opinions / Twilight Saga13 Comments
This is a quite hilarious ad by Verizon mocking AT&T’s pathetic coverage (I am an AT&T customer via my move to the iPhone). Watch until the end. Guardian asks whether crowdsourcing author advances is legitimate. Deanna Zandt wanted to write a book on using social networking for social change and ... more >
Features / PollBacklist / quality / writing54 Comments
I was emailing with a friend of mine over two backlist titles from authors whose recent work we both enjoyed tremendously. The backlist titles were such poor quality compared to the recent works and I thought that had I read those backlist titles, I would never have wanted to pick ... more >
Pollbook business / Epublisher / poll / quality41 Comments
One of the greatest challenges facing digital publishing today is the perception gap. That is to say, there is a perceived gap in quality between books published in e form and books published in print by the NY houses. I suffer from the perception gap myself which isn’t helped when ... more >