HarperCollins Dumps Print
Actually, they are dumping their print catalogs. Starting this fall, HC will forgo the traditional bound catalog in favor of a digital one. Hard to believe this decision wasn’t made years ago. HC’s...
View ArticleAn Author’s Perspective on the Book Publishing Industry
Dr. Gary S. Goodman, best-selling author of 12 books, warns prospective writers to be aware of the current state of the book publishing industry. (1) Distribution through bookstores has never been...
View ArticleHarvard University Press: Publishing on the Quick
What do you do when you have to get a book out fast in order to capture the buzz of a current event? You pull out all the stops to get it done, then you have to know when to quit. Harvard University...
View ArticleGoogle Book Settlement: Devil’s in the Details
Seems as time goes by, more people are coming to grips with what’s in the Google Book Search Settlement. Everyone knows the basics of the agreeement – Google pays $125 million total to publishers, of...
View ArticleCambridge University Press: Too Old to Fail
In this era of government bailouts, you’ve no doubt heard the phrase “too big to fail”. Most of the time this phrase is aligned with banks and insurance companies who are so interconnected with other...
View ArticleOn Royalties and Advances
Since I’m in the business of paying royalties, not collecting them, I’ll refrain from a lot of comment on the whole royalty advance issue and whether there’s any rhyme or reason to it all. The...
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What’s a Typewriter?
The Abrams booth at Book Expo America ’10. I’ll give them an “A” for creativity, but really, what the heck is that thing? Wikipedia calls it a Typewriter. I mean, I know what a laptop looks like, and I...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Amazon
“Amazon seems to be trying to simultaneously establish a wholesale monopsony and a retail monopoly in the ebook sector.” So says, Charlie Stross, an author and the primary writer at Charlie’s Diary. I...
View ArticleBond, James Bond, with Amazon
Further cementing their position as a publisher, Amazon announced today that they secured a ten-year print and eBook license to publish Ian Fleming’s James Bond series in North America. Starting this...
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A Chart Paints a Thousand Words
Stunning. Just look at this for awhile, then go to ReadWriteWeb for the story.
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