Is Your Work Ready for the Global Stage? A Primer on Foreign Markets and Translations
At writing and publishing industry events alike this year, we’ve noticed growing attention and conversation on the growing global market for ebooks.
At writing and publishing industry events alike this year, we’ve noticed growing attention and conversation on the growing global market for ebooks.
It’s been on pundit prediction lists for a while that online education is one of the next biggest publishing growth areas.
A new discussion worth attention has just opened in London with the arrival of an opinion piece titled “On Noticing” by Cathy Rentzenbrink.
Do you work with a small press? London-based Australian editor and ebook producer Simon Collinson could use your help with his survey.
Selected by Amazon as the number-one book of the year, Everything I Never Told You is Ng’s debut novel.
A new ruling from a US appeals court says that copyright owners must consider whether fair use applies before issuing takedown notices.
According to Nielsen’s research, fans have a better opinion of authors than they do of sports figures and musical artists.
It’s been a difficult month for Barnes & Noble: their stock sank after they reported on losses, sparking articles such as “Can Barnes & Noble Survive?”
First things first: talk with your agent if you have one, and look at your contract language. If you don’t have an agent, consider getting legal assistance.
The headline results of the new Authors Guild “The Wages of Writing” author-income survey probably didn’t shock you.
Due to editorial disagreements with her publishers, bestselling author Cornelia Funke is self-publishing her next book—the third volume in her Mirrorworld series.
Google is paying Oyster’s investors quite handsomely to hire the company’s founders and presumably acquire its technical assets.
Demographics of leading social network platform users, according to Pew Research Center (August 2015).
Demographics of leading social network platform users, according to Pew Research Center (August 2015).
Ebook sales are declining, most YA is read by adults, and a significant percentage of purchases happen on impulse.
A look at who’s using the service that provides soundtracks of music and ambient audio for ebooks.
Commentary from Smashwords CEO Mark Coker gives us a glimpse of Amazon’s growing strength among the independent-publishing platforms.
Hybrid author Jamie McGuire’s deal with the retail giant is probably a unique outlier, not an indication of future trends.
We asked Andy Weir’s agent, David Fugate, to comment on what helped the self-published sensation break out.
BookBub has been blogging case studies and Q&As with authors and traditional publishers for nearly two years now.
Is reading going mobile? If so, it’s useful to know who’s earning money from mobile advertising. Source:
We can’t know whether Justice might see a viable case here, but what’s obvious is the deepening rift between the traditional and self-publishing sectors.
According to Mike Shatzkin, the Big Five will become increasingly focused on publishing in multiple languages and countries, rather than selling subrights.
Reactions to new research from Nielsen indicating that the future of digital reading may be on phones, not tablets or e-reading devices.
We examine Goodreads case studies to see whether the site merely reflects the marketplace or has power to influence a book’s success.
Think of Manuscript Wishlist as a reverse pitch: agents and editors are pitching you, telling authors what they’re looking for using the hashtag #MSWL.
Insights from the author of a self-published global sensation.
Two indie authors, Hugh Howey and J.A. Konrath, offer their take on Amazon’s new payment policy which took effect July 1, 2015
Two authors, one independent and one traditional, shed light on the diversity of formats and product types that contribute to their bottom line.
As early efforts to enable and capitalize on self-publishing evolve, some services fall by the wayside: in this case, Pubslush and HarperCollins Authonomy.