The Week in Publishing (October 10 to October 16)
Posted By Sue Collier on October 16, 2011
Here’s some of the latest in industry news and views:
From Jane Friedman: The Evolving Model of the Entrepreneurial Novelist
It’s pleasure to bring you this insightful Q&A with writer Sean Platt. As his own website states, Sean Platt writes it all. He writes copy, websites, books, and has most recently developed a new epic thriller series, Yesterday’s Gone, with his writing partner, David Wright…
From Nonfiction Book Editor: Make Your Book One-Sheet Work Hard for You
On the surface, a book/author one-sheet appears simple. After all, it’s one page of sales copy that promotes your book. Toss in a graphic of the book cover, your bio, and photo, and you’re done, right? Wrong!…
From Media Bistro: Writers Guild East Joins Occupy Wall Street March
The Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) joined scores of other unions and community groups in a New York City demonstration yesterday. Do you think more writers should join the growing Occupy Wall Street movement…
From Digital Journal: Bowker Launches International e-Book Monitor
Bowker, the leading provider of market research information and business intelligence on book markets in the U.S., through BML Bowker, in the U.K., will launch a major study that will assess and track device adoption, attitudes, and purchasing habits of e-book consumers in Europe, Asia, Australia, and North and South America. The study, commencing in January 2012 and repeating annually…
From Jonathan Fields: A Radical New Way To Tap the Kindle Economy
The publishing world is in mass-flux. While this terrifies some writers, other entrepreneurial-minded writers and self-publishers are licking their chops. Sean Platt is one of them. You may know him from WriterDad.com, GhostWriterDad.com, CollectiveInkwell.com and his contributions all over the web…
From A Writer’s Life: Let’s Dance on The Grave of Jones Harvest
It appears that Jones Harvest Publishers, the vanity press run by huckster Brien Jones, has finally died in shame. His company website has disappeared and he’s reportedly closed the pitiful little storefront that he operated to convince his gullible “authors,” primarily senior citizens, that their poorly-printed books would be available in brick-and-mortar stores…
From School Library Journal: Oops! National Book Foundation Unveils Six YA Finalists
And then there were six. For the first time in recent history, the National Book Foundation unveiled six finalists yesterday in the Young People’s Literature category. What happened? Someone screwed up…
From Publishers Weekly: E-book Sales Doubled in July
E-book sales had their smallest increase of the year in July, while the adult hardcover segment had one of its strongest months, according to the AAP’s monthly sales report. E-book sales from 17 reporting publishers rose 105.3% in the month…
From Digital Book World: “Price Pulsing”: the Benefits of Dynamic Pricing on Amazon
Before reading this article I strongly suggest you read both my recent article Gaining Traction in the Amazon Ebook Marketplace and Amazon Best Practices. You will need the knowledge described in both of them to really take advantage of the information given here to enhance your royalties…
From SFGate: Public bookshelves spread across Germany
Take a book, leave a book. In the birthplace of the printing press, public bookshelves are popping up across the nation on street corners, city squares and suburban supermarkets…
From Publishing Perspectives: Talking about Self-Publishing in Germany and China
In some ways, you couldn’t imagine two more different markets for self- and online publishing than Germany and China. China’s population has long been accustomed to reading on screens and online publishing takes massive proportions. Germany’s strong traditional publishing structures have resulted in a slower transition to e-reading and e-publishing…
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