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NEW YORK CITY -- So what's "Data Guy" like on stage in person at Digital Book World March 9? And can he win over at least some of the skeptics? First, a little catch-up...

Tired of the terrible reviews for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice? Think you can do better? Feel like Frank Miller's attitudes need a refresh? DC is offering you the chance to...

I've just made my yearly pilgrimage to my city's largest used bookstore. For years I have been both buying and selling there, and the latest result suggests this may be my last trip there...

A blogger named Max Florschutz ponders "the idea that customers aren’t holding an e-book to be of similar value" and wondering why that was. Chris Meadows ably summarizes a few of Mr. Florshutz's...

Reading of the death of Umberto Eco, I came across this quote that resonates with me: “It’s only publishers and some journalists who believe that people want simple things. People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.” (To the former group I might add ‘some agents’?)

We know how much e-books cost. But what is their actual value? This is a question pondered in this post by writer and blogger Max Florschutz. Florschutz is puzzled by the way...

Dear Ros, First, let me say I understand your decision, as detailed in The Guardian, to embrace poverty through traditional publishing, while refusing to self-publish. After all, publishing multinationals like Penguin Random...

Here is a small observation on Kelly’s Efficiency Index, which some publishers are using to evaluate the potential of authors. [(number of units sold ÷ number of titles published) x .001 = Efficiency Index]

One of the problems Amazon has as a major self-publishing market is that, every so often, it’s prone to making odd decisions. Sometimes those decisions are at least understandable in a...

Writer and writing teacher Lorraine Berry has shared an article on LitHub with the telling title "How the Literary Class System is Impoverishing Literature." She details the financial and other barriers that...

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Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...

TeleRead.com is now a static archival site, but we're very much alive at TeleRead.org. Big thanks to Nate Hoffelder of The-Digital-Reader.com, who teamed up on the preservation project with ReclaimHosting.com.