The indie SF publisher Wonderment plans 20 ebook titles exploring a universe of characters enduring world-shattering eventsWriting can be hard – not hard like mining diamonds in Zimbabwe or making cheap clothes for westerners in Bangladesh, of course, but anyone in the 21st-century knowledge economy who wants to write a novel must have some kind of masochistic streak. Word processors have taken some of the strain out of editing and publishing, but there’s no app to automate the hard slog of getting 100,000 words down on paper in something resembling a coherent narrative. And the work doesn’t stop there for SFF writers, who have to construct an entire fictional world to support their stories.Enter the Apocalypse Weird, stage right. If any group of authors can find a way to collaborate on telling stories it’s those rebellious indie authors, authors who have already broken all the rules of publishing by stealing the ebook market out from under the industry. While writers may not be able to collaborate on individual books, they can work together to create the fictional “shared world” those books happen within, the world of Apocalypse Weird. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2015-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The British Library’s head of digital publications on the urgency of preserving digital stories, from smartphone apps to interactive web narrativesGiulia Carla Rossi collects the fragile artefacts of our increasingly transient publishing world. She is a curator of digital publications at the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-11-18 13:00:21 UTC ]
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Star Wars: Visions is returning for a second 'season,' this time with a more international scope — including a studio you might not have expected. Disney has announced that Star Wars: Visions Volume 2 will premiere May 4th (aka Star Wars Day) with shorts from nine countries, including one from... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2023-02-02 15:41:49 UTC ]
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Apple is holding its first virtual event of the year on March 8th, and to be honest, I’ve heard rumors about this date for weeks. And don’t get me started on the leaky product selection expected to debut tomorrow at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT / 6 PM GMT.EngadgetThe first major announcement is likely to... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2022-03-07 12:28:10 UTC ]
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Over half a decade later, a new Kickstarter campaign has finally eclipsed Pebble's crowdfunding record on the website. Fantasy and sci-fi author Brandon Sanderson set up a campaign to raise $1 million within 30 days to fund four secret books he intends to release every quarter next year. It... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2022-03-04 12:57:00 UTC ]
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As a queer Indigenous kid, Gary Lonesborough was alienated by the books he read. He hopes his new YA book gives a child like him the acceptance he never hadI’ve had a long relationship with telling stories. It hasn’t always been good.Mum and Dad were storytellers. They would tell stories to me... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-02-28 21:00:04 UTC ]
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Pandemic Dispatches A seller of lepyoshka in Kiev Street, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan / Photo by Irene Strong / Unsplash In And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again, forthcoming on August 25, dozens of esteemed writers, poets, artists, and translators... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2020-08-18 20:03:33 UTC ]
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NEW YORK — Over 40 up-and-coming publishing professionals were honored at Folio:’s Rising Stars Awards Luncheon at the New York Hilton Midtown on Tuesday. The Rising Star Honorees are individuals who are making their mark and disrupting the status quo of magazine media, even in the early stages... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A star-studded lineup of authors and speakers awaits librarians at the 2018 Texas Library Association conference in Dallas—but the spotlight will also shine brightly on librarians’ own stories. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Self-published authors share what they wish they’d known from the beginning. If you haven’t written a book yet, you probably know someone who has—particularly if you’re an entrepreneur. A recent industry report found ISBN registrations for self-published titles have grown more than 375% since... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2017-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Philip Jones analyses Amazon's new ebook offer, what led to it and what it could mean for the future of the ebook market. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After producing award-winning works in music, musical theater and comics, Vivek Tiwary is now writing an illustrated YA novel and working to turn Dave Roman's children's graphic novel 'Astronaut Academy' into a TV series. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon’s dominance in the UK ebook market is so huge that other competitors are left "fighting for scraps” tech entrepreneurs have said. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sainsbury’s is pulling out of the ebook market and closing its digital entertainment offer. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Even more big changes are afoot at Time Inc. in the wake of last week's executive reorg, with InStyle's Ariel Foxman announcing today via WWD that he plans to step down as editorial director. Foxman, who has been with the brand for nearly eight years, will officially exit on Aug. 4 after closing... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2016-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 45-hour children's bookseller gathering in Orlando closed on a high note, in large part because of the energy and enthusiasm of booksellers and connections made thanks to the stories they brought with them and the authors presented throughout the institute. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It is a measure of how strange the ebook market is that in death Oyster may create more ripples in the digital market than it ever achieved while it lived. It will be missed by publishers more than by writers, and its passing will be pored over by pundits eager to have their say about the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A timely inquiry today, something for small publishers to consider. As my colleague Philip Jones wrote here at The FutureBook last week, the ebook market "that once was booming is now maturing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Charging VAT on digital books is “holding back the development of the ebook market in general, and especially in non-English and small-language markets”, the International Publishers Association’s (IPA) José Borghino has said. A global survey of VAT rates, conducted by the IPA and the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An appeals court upheld a lower-court ruling that Apple violated antitrust laws to upset Amazon's control of the ebook market. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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