Latest OverDrive Digital Library Trends report cites 30-40 percent library ebook boost
America's favorite ebook and audiobook distributor OverDrive has announced its 2016 Digital Library Trends report ahead of its airing at the 2016 Public Library Association (PLA) Conference. And OverDrive predicts that: "public libraries'...
Writers: How to read better and win fans at your readings
I have a new book coming out soon, and already I'm starting to wrestle with readings from it. So it's good to come across an up-to-the-minute and highly critical hit list...
Project Gutenberg brings you the ebook beauty of bookplates
Project Gutenberg has just released one of its most attractive digitization projects for book lovers for a while - a 1902 edition of Book-plates of To-day, edited by Wilbur Macey Stone...
Radius Book Group launches for self-publishing support – with David Gaughran caveat
Porter Anderson has penned a long article in Publishing Perspectives which highlights the launch of Radius Book Group - offering, according to the headline, "International Self-Publishing for Those Who Would Rather...
HypeForType offers free fonts for book covers, self-publishing design
Typographic talent showcase HypeForType has announced a free offer that could be useful for many self-publishing authors, small publishers, and ebook creators. In return for subscribing to its mailing list, the...
David Gaughran updates on Amazon Kindle Unlimited scams
David Gaughran, as everyone knows, is one of the staunchest advocates of self-publishing going. So if he develops a beef with Amazon, it's usually worth taking seriously. This one is -...
Writer shares stories from the self-publishing coalface
In reply to the recent very negative Guardian piece about self-publishing by Ros Barber, herself not self-published, British self-published thriller writer Rachel Abbott has shared her own experiences of self-publishing. And they're quite...
Bookstores! Here’s how to both compete with Amazon and tap e-book synergies
Digital Book World has carried a long piece on Hummingbird Digital Media, a subsidiary of American West Books previously covered by Chris Meadows which hopes to ensure that "anyone can sell ebooks...
Pub guru Mike Shatzkin: Publishers don’t support writers’ digital marketing efforts well enough
Data Guy has told how B5 publishers are losing market share in the e-book world.
Now here’s another reason why debut writers and midlisters just might want to go the DIY route...
Lesson from J. K. Rowling’s uppity experiment: Publishers must be more transparent
J. K. Rowling is making headlines again, this time for posting excerpts from some of her rejection letters on Twitter. The letters were her initial responses to the now-successful mystery series...