Some things are changing radically and some are staying very much the same. New and interesting: Kickstarter has drawn more than enough funding for a project called Love Ever After. Kickstarter is interesting both for concept and process. Here, the project Read More
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Tom Benjey's run with print-on-demand self-publishing
February 17, 2012
Guest post by Tom Benjey
Major publishing houses have been using POD technology for some time to keep their backlist titles in print. POD technology allows books to be printed digitally one a time, thus relieving the publisher of the cost of printing a batch of books and having capital tied up in them until they sell. The small capital investment required to publish books via POD technology also makes it possible for an author to become a publisher Read More
Major publishing houses have been using POD technology for some time to keep their backlist titles in print. POD technology allows books to be printed digitally one a time, thus relieving the publisher of the cost of printing a batch of books and having capital tied up in them until they sell. The small capital investment required to publish books via POD technology also makes it possible for an author to become a publisher Read More
Amazon.com and the Future of Book Publishing (part 2)
February 11, 2012
Three more alerts for authors: Confessions of a Publisher: “We’re in Amazon’s Sights and They’re Going to Kill Us” (PandoDaily)
Barnes & Noble: Taking on Amazon in a Fight for Its Life Read More
Barnes & Noble: Taking on Amazon in a Fight for Its Life Read More
New iBook software's greedy grab for exclusive rights
February 1, 2012
Thanks to Robin Rowlands (The road to serfdom: Use Apple software ) for alerting us to the fact (widely discussed among techies) that deep within the license agreement for the excellent new iBook software is a clause stating that if you use the free software to create an ebook that you plan to sell (not give away) you are bound exclusively to Apple. Read Robin's Read More
Amazon.com (Gorilla) and the Future of Book Publishing (part 1)
February 1, 2012
Here are links to several pieces of essential reading on Amazon and the future of book publishing: Amazon's Hit Man (Brad Stone, Bloomberg Businessweek, 1-25-12)
Publishing’s Ecosystem on the Brink: The Backstory (Authors Guild, 1-31-12)
Amazon and Lightning Source: The End of an Era? (Joel Friedlander, The Book Designer 9-9-11)
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Publishing’s Ecosystem on the Brink: The Backstory (Authors Guild, 1-31-12)
Amazon and Lightning Source: The End of an Era? (Joel Friedlander, The Book Designer 9-9-11)
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Should political reporters be more than stenographers?
January 15, 2012
Arthur Brisbane asked readers Should The Times Be a Truth Vigilante?, in on his Public Editor's blog for the New York Times (1-12-12). Referring to stories about Clarence Thomas's claim that he had "misunderstood" a financial reporting form when he failed to report his wife's earnings from the Heritage Foundation, and about Mitt Romney's claim that President Obama has a habit of "apologizing" for America) Read More
Author alert: Reclaim rights on books pubbed 1978 and after
January 10, 2012
"There is a provision in the 1978 copyright law that allows authors to reclaim rights to their books after 35 years," writes Mike Shatzkin in paragraph 17 of an interesting post about book publishing. "Titles published in 1978 become eligible for reversion, called 'recapture' apparently, starting in 2013. (With logic that is Read More
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Gratitude (Louie Schwartzberg)
January 7, 2012
Get a cup of tea and allow yourself ten minutes to which this beautiful 10-minute video by Louie Schwartzberg, a secular sermon of sorts, combined with visuals for meditation. Gratitude Click on bottom right corner to see full-screen image
If for some reason you get a DIFFERENT video, about a Grandfather's Journal, that's a fluke of this Authors Guild software. Go instead to:
Louis Schwartzberg, Gratitude
Beautiful time-motion views of nature and, later, of people and an elder talking about how to appreciate a day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXDMoiEkyuQ
History in and for a digital age
January 6, 2012
History may be changing now as profoundly as it changed when Gutenberg introduced print, writes William Cronon, president of the American Historical Association. In a thought-provoking essay, The Public Practice of History in and for a Digital Age, Cronon writes that for "those of us in the humanities, the essence of a university consisted of Read More
Soundtrack of your life
January 5, 2012
"Sean Connors studies the way adolescents understand and interact with graphic novels, the more sophisticated successor to comic books," writes Heidi Stambuck's in The Sights and Sounds of Literature (Research Frontiers, University of Arkansas). Chris Goering examines what happens when English teachers ask students to analyze their favorite song lyrics and relate the lyrics to their personal history Read More