Industry News: 2/27/10
Books Inc. owners are writing the formula for success for their San Francisco stores. It feels good to read positive news about bookstores. Therese Walsh sent me a tip that agent Jenny Bent wrote a...
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There’s no escaping conflict in politics—or in publishing. The new normal in publishing means someone’s mad at Amazon, someone favors print over e-books or vice versa, and book sales are slowing or...
View ArticleIndustry News-February 12
Hot! Novelists, Inc, a writing group for those published in popular fiction, has made A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE NEW WORLD OF PUBLISHING available to non-members at no charge via download here. This...
View ArticleIndustry News-July 1
Save the date! June 3, 2013 is the trial date for the Department of Justice’s e-book price-fixing lawsuit. I don’t know where Apple, Macmillan and Penguin are registered, but it’s not at Amazon.com....
View ArticleIndustry News-July 8
Writer/publisher Bob Mayer says a farewell to arms in the publishing wars and advises writer foot soldiers to do the same and return to their laptops. Why? There’s demand for stories. As Mayer puts...
View ArticleIndustry News – October 7
The Industry Peter Turner lists five things traditional publishers flub and five things they do well. Jane Friedman also looks at what traditional publishers offer authors and calls for change:...
View ArticleIndustry News-October 14
Agent Jonny Geller compares a scene in the movie Lawrence of Arabia to the current state of publishing and implores publishers, retailers, agents, authors, even readers to abandon fixed positions and...
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