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Category Archives: book publishing
Fifth Annual New York Writer’s Conference Roundtable
The Conference will be held on Friday, April 24 and Saturday, April 25 in New York City. On Saturday afternoon I will be part of the panel “What’s Next” along with:
What’s Next
Laura Dawson, The Big Picture
Paul Biba, TeleRead
Mike Shatzkin, Idea Logical
Christopher Kenneally, Copyright Clearance Center
Jeff Rivera, GumboWriters.com
Lloyd Jassin, Esq., moderator
Full [...] Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Paul Biba, Uncategorized, book publishing
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Thoughts on eContent, Free Content and Pricing Model Options
I’ve been meaning to link to this Read-it-First article from Book Business but it didn’t appear on their website till recently. Now that’s it’s up I would encourage everyone in the publishing world to read it. It’s an interview Matt Steinmetz did with Matthew Baldacci of St. Martin’s Press and it talks about an initiative [...] Continue reading
New Zealand publishers set action plan to boost digital industry
Editor’s Note: I found the below blog post especially interesting. It’s by Martin Taylor, the Director of the New Zealand Publishing Forum and is reproduced with his permission. As Martin says, the post might interest readers curious about the smaller international markets. Just how do people there see the ebook opportunity, and what are and [...] Continue reading
Posted in Paul Biba, Uncategorized, book publishing, e-book, e-book economics, e-books, ebook, ebook publishing, ebooks
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No April Fools’ joke apparently: The REAL Cheryl Kaye Tardiff warned against Amazon zapping book reviews
I’ve just gotten a Tweet from Canadian suspense writer Cheryl Kaye Tardiff. She thanks me for my TeleRead post about Amazon’s war against authors—the evil souls donating free reviews of other writers’ books in return for a little publicity.
Via Twitter, the note came from a cherylktardif account listed with 709 followers. So I’m [...] Continue reading
Is Google being evil again?
Some people seem to think so. On the one hand, we have Rupert Murdoch railing against Google and Yahoo for “stealing news.” On the other, a number of groups are getting ready to file briefs objecting to various aspects of the Google Books/Authors Guild settlement.
Rupert Murdoch
Murdoch, whom we have mentioned within only the last [...] Continue reading
Bought book reviews: LibraryThing cracks down to nip the problem in the bud
LibraryThing is cracking down on sleazes who charge authors to generate five-star reviews. This isn’t a major problem at LibraryThing now. But the site is wisely taking precautions. The key rule is, "Reviewers must not be paid for their reviews, except in free books and similar non-monetary perks." Exactly. Do we really want LT to [...] Continue reading
Claude Gubler’s ‘Le Grand Secret’: Routing around censorship in 1996
“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” —John Gilmore
This saying has long been true in the Internet world, but it was a shock to many when it first came true in the real world.
Banned in France
I was recently reading through my copy of Dear Valued Customer, You Are a Loser by [...] Continue reading
Why fiction really IS good for you
"Through a series of studies, we have discovered that fiction at its best isn’t just enjoyable. It measurably enhances our abilities to empathize with other people and connect with something larger than ourselves." – Keith Oatley, novelist and psychologist—writing in Greater Good Magazine (via Readerville).
The TeleRead take: So what about distinctions within fiction? Will [...] Continue reading
‘Why e-books must fail’
"Clearly e-books aren’t free—they are perhaps as expensive or in some cases more expensive than print—yet they do not create large, short term cash flow to cover their costs. E-books, if successful, will sink the trade publishing industry." – Evan Schnittman, Oxford University Press executive, expressing his personal views in his new blog, Black [...] Continue reading
Filedbyauthor: Q&A with cofounders Peter Clifton and Mike Shatzkin
Complete with listings for F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, Filedbyauthor has started up with 1.8 million name-related pages waiting to be claimed.
So far the most viewed writers are Stephanie Meyer, J.K. Rowling, former PW editor Sara Nelson (claimed page), Sylvia Day (claimed) and Sharon Lee (claimed). More than 1,600 writes have "filed."
We’ve [...] Continue reading
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