French authors have been signing a petition contesting a law for scanning and selling orphan and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Alma Books has acquired a debut novel set in the swamps of Louisiana, after discovering the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
As much as a quarter of fiction ebooks sold in the UK could be from self-published writers, as... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Whatever else can be said about Tools of Change, O’Reilly Media’s traveling road show on publishing and technological change, it seems to come along just when a concentrated dose of discussion—or perhaps muted confrontation—is needed. Over the course of the three-day conference in New York City,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bestselling author Rosamund Lupton has hailed self-published authors at an event to mark half a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Self-published crime writer Kerry Wilkinson claimed the top spot in the UK Kindle bestseller... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Icon Books has signed a new title by Mark Forsyth, whose book on the origins of words, The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
A non-profit body representing the interests of self-published authors will launch this spring... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Headline has secured world rights to an autobiography and two novels by N-Dubz and “X-... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent publishers have welcomed the launch of Apple’s iBooks Author self-publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
A group of writers in India have set up a petition calling for the lifting of the country's... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
There's a strange concept in marketing that no publicity is really bad. If people talk about you, it broadly raises brand awareness. People eventually forget the bad news but not the brand. Who remembers last year's furor over Apple's onerous publisher subscription terms? That's the eventual... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple can improve education and empower authors to create ever-better digital books without limiting customers. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple’s iPad has fairly quickly become a great tool for the workplace and in education and the company’s latest bid to revolutionize the market is with ebooks. Ebooks themselves are nothing new, but the existence of touchscreen devices such as the iPad means that the opportunities available to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eight female novelists have made the Waterstones 11 2012 selection, with three novels each from... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
At a private event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City on Thursday, Apple unveiled its multi-pronged approach for cracking the higher education market with iBooks 2, iBooks Author, and iTunes U. The result is an environment for creating, distributing, and consuming learning materials that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
iBooks Author is a free Mac app designed to let authors and publishers easily create multimedia-rich e-textbooks for the iBooks 2 app. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Booksellers Association has pledged to write to the chief executives of all 390 local... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The emergence of author podcasts as a viable and entertaining marketing tool is apparent in the success of three such efforts originating from literary Web sites on the West Coast: Brad Listi’s the Nervous Breakdown, Tom Lutz’s Los Angeles Review of Books, and Tyson Cornell’s company Rare Bird... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House is diversifying into author management with the launch of an international speakers... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]