Writing and Publishing

First, one publisher set a cap on how many times their ebooks could be loaned out. Then another one pulled their stuff from library purchase altogether. So, what has that meant...

Joe Konrath has a long article in A Newbie's Guide to Publishing, with the above title.  He marvels that authors are defending the agency model even though it is hurting their...

Got and email about this new site. According to Amy Edelman every book is reviewed prior too acceptance to ensure that the site's content is of high quality. The...

That the title if an article in the mediaIDEAS blog.  The author says that The New Yorker, unlike many digital magazines, is doing very well.  Why? However, The New Yorker is actually...

Given the importance of this I'm reprinting Kobo's blog post in full.  Thanks to Michael von Glahn for the link.  Blockquotes omitted. It’s been a phenomenal and exciting year building the only...

It's easy to always talk about publishers who get it wrong, and yes, lots of them do. Bookish, anyone? (Where you can get recommendations, but it's all a one way street, and...

Infotoday is reporting that Springer is now putting over 10,000 books online for reviewers. All of their English-language ebooks that have been published since 2006 will be included. Reviewers just have...

At the end of December, I mentioned that the government is seeking input on how it should update the exemption request process for the right to crack DRM under the DMCA. But what I hadn’t noticed was at the same time, the government also posted a request for comments on another section of the DMCA...

From the Authors Guild site: We don't know the details of the Odyssey-Amazon agreement, but we can make some informed guesses. The agreement is most likely under the agency model, with Amazon...