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Writing and Publishing

Writing and Publishing

The latest quarterly edition of the Digital Book World Ebook Publisher Power Rankings—one of those ratings league tables that corporates love—has appeared, with some welcome news for a couple of the industry's...

This is the type of thing that can lead to the Machine finally getting some traction.  From Publishers Weekly: On Demand Books’ Espresso Book Machine has had a difficult time gaining...

Mike Shatzkin; Christina Mussinelli, Associazione Italiana Editori Digital statistics in Europe poor. English is fist foreign language taught in Europe and 69% of Europe is confident in it. Big market...

This must be a first of some kind. As the title of the LiveJournal entry where I found out about it notes, “a book that doesn’t actually exist yet won a...

From Irish Publishing News. More info in the article. Stephen Boylan, Books Purchasing Manager at Easons with responsibility for ebooks has confirmed that Easons has signed Agency contracts with Hachette and...

I wonder how long before we stop reading these types of stories, either because it has become so established a route to publishing success that it’s not worthy of comment or...

On Publishing Perspectives, independent publisher and e-book consultant Erik Christopher has an article looking at whether to assign separate ISBNs to individual e-book formats, and whether DRMed vs. non-DRMed e-books...

UK agents Curtis Brown and Blake Friedman are planning to go into publishing, says The Bookseller. Curtis Brown m.d. Jonathan Lloyd said: "Where Ed Victor leads, others follow—and we are right behind...

Well, I guess they are still around. Copia, according to Publishers Weekly, is talking to independent bookstores in order to become their online retailing solution. They would provide a...

Even years ago when I worked at Little, Brown, we announced books way in advance, 12-18 months. Bookstore reps used covers, one sheets, and early praise to sell books to the brick-and-mortar...

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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.