Thanks to online retail, book covers are trending toward not-so-mellow yellow
As you shop for books and e-books online, have you been increasingly seeing yellow? There’s a reason for that.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the reduction of covers to one-inch thumbnails...
How to manage your manuscript like a pro and earn more
If you're like most writers, your manuscript has grown from a tight, beautifully-told flight of imaginative fancy into a 600-page monster that no self-respecting editor would read: not even for a...
Aspiring YouTube of comics—Tapas Media—featured in new Kindle Chronicles podcast
Chang Kim, CEO of Tapas Media in San Francisco, is on a mission: to build the best platform for bite-sized mobile content. His 2012 startup was already a leading online platform...
Buzzword Bingo is in as Tribune Publishing renames itself ‘tronc’
What is it with the new media that makes old companies think they need to change to having new and funny names? Google rebranding to Alphabet was funny enough, but now...
Inkitt invites you to get hip with its e-book publishing platform
Originally a startup out of Germany, Inkitt styles itself "the Hipsters Book Club," or "the Hipster's Library," and invites joiners to "read and fall in love with novels before they go...
Hard copy still rocks – especially when it’s yours
Normal services will be resumed as soon as possible, ladies and gentlemen - once I come down from Cloud Nine. My first collection of dark/weird/transgressive stories, Black Propaganda, just arrived in...
UK Harry Potter printer benefits from e-book decline, invests in print-on-demand
Clays, a 19-acre print shop that employs 700 people in Suffolk, the UK, is reporting growth in its business, which it contends is due to the falling sales of e-books. Clays...
Per AP Stylebook, ‘Internet’ officially loses its capital letter today
Welcome to the first day of a lower-cased internet. At least, that’s what we’ll have if the AP Stylebook has its way. As I’ve mentioned before, the new edition no longer...
Print news publishers face ad revenue famine as online models shift
A very interesting piece in The Guardian breaks down the problems that Big Media is having with competition from the internet - especially news media. In particular, this stems from the...
New U.S. overtime rules threaten Big Publishing junior labor practices
For all those of you who didn't already know that New York publishing houses and Big Publishing in general function like a knockoff script from a Whit Stillman movie, here's fresh...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
