- For a very clear and no-nonsense explanation of the Amazon sales rank number: the ALLi blog explains what factors change your sales rank, revealing that steady sales win the game.
- Harlequin’s UK and US offices are joining forces. The two divisions will work together to acquire, market, and promote to English markets. Read more at Publishers Weekly.
- What terms belong in an author-agency contract? Agent Janet Reid offers her perspective.
- The Atlantic has apparently just discovered the serialization phenomenon because the creator of Downton Abbey released a serialized novel this month. Read about Belgravia and this shocking new trend.
- It’s rumored that Penguin Random House is selling DK (Dorling Kindersley), its illustrated book imprint. PRH declined to comment on the rumor.
- The Supreme Court will not hear the Authors Guild appeal. And thus ends an eleven-year battle.
- Financial problems have arisen at UK’s Spectral Press. Find out more at author Simon Bestwick’s blog.
Jane Friedman has spent her entire career working in the publishing industry, with a focus on business reporting and author education. Established in 2015, her newsletter The Bottom Line provides nuanced market intelligence to thousands of authors and industry professionals; in 2023, she was named Publishing Commentator of the Year by Digital Book World.
Jane’s expertise regularly features in major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, The Today Show, Wired, The Guardian, Fox News, and BBC. Her book, The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition (The University of Chicago Press), is used as a classroom text by many writing and publishing degree programs. She reaches thousands through speaking engagements and workshops at diverse venues worldwide, including NYU’s Advanced Publishing Institute, Frankfurt Book Fair, and numerous MFA programs.