Tag: publishing

by Guy Kawasaki

Wrap your mind around this: One of the most important factors that traditional publishers use to decide whether to acquire a book is the marketing platform of its author. You’d think that the main reason for approaching a traditional publisher is to reap the benefits of the publisher’s marketing, and you wouldn’t have to bring […] more »

by Julie Keck

1. Bookish officially open for business (NYT) 2. Revenue dips that inspire innovation in publishing also make it difficult to follow through (FutureBook) 3. Amazon patents resale marketplace for e-books and other digital goods (The Washington Post) 4. Readers get as much out of e-books as print books (Discovery News) 5. Apple to highlight self-published […] more »

by Jenny Xie

In 2012, multimedia micro-blogging service Tumblr was the hub for not only viral memes, but also creative book deals. The blog-based book or “blook” is hardly new. Post Secret and Stuff White People Like kicked off the blog-to-book movement in the mid-2000s. Book deals for the Tumblr generation — Garfield Minus Garfield and Hipster Puppies […] more »

by Leandro Oliva

The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self-publishing. 1. McGraw-Hill & Kno offer a peek into the future of textbooks (TechCrunch) 2. Self-publishing site Lulu drops DRM on e-books, sort of (paidContent) 3. Why winning a $7,000 piracy lawsuit could be the worst news ever for book publishers (readwrite) 4. 21 book […] more »

by Leandro Oliva

The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Leandro Oliva. 1. Andrew Sullivan’s ad-free publishing experiment sees six-figure revenue in first six hours  (TechCrunch) 2. There’s no avoiding Google+ (WSJ) 3. From mobile to taking on newspaper pay walls, 3 big moves for local TV in 2013 (Lost Remote) 4. iPad web traffic share […] more »

by Dorian Benkoil

Once again, ‘tis the season for look-aheads. In that spirit, here are my digital media predictions for 2013. (Quality) Content Will be King “Experts” once told us that quality had been killed by the need for efficiency and scaling, and that editorial operations would thrive on user- or even machine-generated-content. Click here to read the […] more »

by Leandro Oliva

The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Leandro Oliva. 1. Why the entertainment industry’s release strategy creates piracy (The Guardian) 2. When to go fast, when to go slow on social media (Poynter) 3. Forrester: 84% of U.S. adults now use the web daily, 50% own smartphones (TechCrunch) 4. A visual look back at digital […] more »

by Felicia Pride

During my grad school days nearly a decade ago, I relished the stories of editor extraordinaire Maxwell Perkins nurturing a promising, yet unknown F. Scott Fitzgerald. Granted, by the time I was studying book publishing, tales of editors and authors toiling together for years to perfect a manuscript were no longer occurring in a business […] more »

by Leandro Oliva

The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self-publishing. 1. Can a ‘Spotify for books’ really work? (paidContent) 2. 29th Street Publishing wants to make selling magazines for iPads as easy as blogging (NiemanLab) 3. When self-published e-books become best-sellers (Forbes) 4. Kobo, and another two big players, landed in Brazil (dbw) 5. Why […] more »

by Leandro Oliva

The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self-publishing. 1. Simon & Schuster launches self-publishing arm with Author Solutions (paidContent) 2. Universities to pilot e-book program that monitors student reading habits (The Verge) 3. Penguin rolling out new e-book library lending program (VentureBeat) 4. 2012 e-reader comparison guide (GizMag) 5. The victims of the […] more »
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