Two Timely Questions: How do you Write the Digital Life? Are the Genre Wars...
It’s not just business models that are evolving. From the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper website today come two thoughtful pieces on changes in the creative challenges facing writers and in how literature...
View ArticleStephen King’s Paperback-Only Crime Novel: Back to the Future?
Anyone who has been around publishing long enough to remember the events of 2000 may feel a bit nostalgic reading the stories about Stephen King’s decision to publish his next book, Joyland, in print...
View ArticleBEA: Touting Serious Books, Mulling Reviews Ethics, Celebrating Indies,...
In addition to providing a showcase for upcoming books and lots of schmoozing opportunities, BookExpo America offers a look at the trends and ideas that—for better or worse–could affect authors now and...
View ArticleCounting the Cost (to Authors) of S&S/B&N Rift
As the dispute over terms between Simon & Schuster and Barnes & Noble drags on, an experience related by bestselling novelist William Kent Krueger reminds us it’s authors who are paying the...
View ArticleRemember the Orphans? Battle Lines Being Drawn in HathiTrust Appeal
Organizations were lining up to file briefs in the HathiTrust appeal this week. Before we get to that, however, let’s take a moment to recap for those of you who may be foggy on the details of this...
View ArticlePiracy, Bribery, Profit? Amazon Releases Kindle Into Complex Chinese Book Market
Will the availability of the Kindle be enough to convince Chinese readers to actually pay for the ebooks they download? That’s the hope as Amazon starts selling its Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle HD Fire...
View ArticleJK Rowling’s Experiment in Pseudonymity: Critical Acclaim No Match for Big Name
The revelation that “debut” mystery novel The Cuckoo’s Calling was actually written by J.K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith highlights quirks of the book business and challenges faced by...
View ArticleCuckoo’s Calling Fallout: Denials of a “Stunt,” Empathy from a Pseudonymist,...
Reverberations from J.K. Rowling’s outing this weekend as the author of The Cuckoo’s Calling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, continue, and not just in Amazon raking in sales of the...
View ArticleElmore Leonard: An Appreciation
To readers and moviegoers, Elmore Leonard was a writer who entertained them for decades, and whose work will surely continue to do so for years. For authors, he was that and more. For some, a friend, a...
View ArticleNot Just the French: Argentina and South Korea Debate Limiting Book Discount
While limits on book discounting in France and Germany receive much more attention, Publishing Perspectives took a recent look, in separate pieces, at how pricing and discounting is shaping the book...
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