A GREAT READ
and communities of book lovers
Best reads and most "discussable"
Fact-finding, fact-checking, conversion tables, checking fake news, and news and info resources
long-form journalism, e-singles, online aggregators
BOOK AND MAGAZINE PUBLISHING
New, used, rare books, Amazon, etc. Where to donate or recycle.
Blogs, social media, SEO, podcasts, ezines, survey tools and online games
How much to charge and so on (for creative entrepreneurs)
Job boards and sites posting freelance gigs
Blogs, video promotion, intelligent radio programs
Ebooks/digital publishing, audiobooks, and changes in publishing. See also Self-Publishing
Indie publishing, digital publishing, POD, how-to sources
Includes original text by Sarah Wernick
WRITERS AND CREATORS
Multimedia, cartoons, maps, charts and so on
Plus contests, other sources of funds for creators
Plus book fairs and festivals, writers colonies (residences, communities, retreats)
Copywriting, speechwriting, marketing, training, and writing for government
Literary and commercial (including genre)
Writing, reporting, multimedia, equipment, software
Translators, indexers, designers, photographers, artists, illustrators, animators, cartoonists, image professionals, composers
including personal essays, academic writing, footnotes and citations
Groups for writers who specialize in animals, children's books, food, gardens, family history, resumes, sports, travel, Webwriting, and wine (etc.)
Writers on offices, standing desks, rejection, writer's block, procrastination, and other features of the writing life
ETHICS, RIGHTS, AND OTHER ISSUES
Fair use, public domain, book contracts, licensing, permissions, rights clearance, reversion of rights, digital rights, DMCA takedown notices, net neutrality
First Amendment issues, free speech, invasion of privacy, online privacy, plagiarism, libel, censorship, banned books, media watchdogs, FOIA, protection for whistleblowers
EDITORS AND EDITING
and copyeditors, proofreaders, indexers, and translators
And views on the author-editor relationship
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