Publishing

“New” J R R Tolkien Novel, “The Fall of Gondolin”, Is Coming Later This Year

10 April, 2018 // 5 Comments

Terry Pratchett may have avoided ghouls robbing his literary estate after his death, but other authors were nearly as lucky. Some authors (for example, Harper Lee) were still alive when the ghouls [Read More ...]

AAP Reports Trade Revenues Up 1% Through November 2017

4 April, 2018 // 2 Comments

The Association of American Publishers reported on Wednesday that publisher revenues fell 5.5% in the month of November while staying up for the year. Revenues from the YA segment were up 3% through [Read More ...]

Amazon Has Shadow-Banned Romance Titles from the Kindle Store

29 March, 2018 // 105 Comments

The ebook market owes its existence to the romance genre. eBooks gave authors a chance to sell the stories readers wanted to buy rather than the stories the gatekeepers wanted to publish, and without [Read More ...]

Smashwords Adds Audiobook Distribution via Findaway Voice

21 March, 2018 // 0 Comments

Smashwords has partnered with audiobook distributor Findaway to help authors turn their ebooks into audiobooks via Findaway's ACX competitor, Findaway Voices. This announcement comes about 9 months [Read More ...]

Updated: Simon & Schuster’s Vanity Press Launches Writing Contest to Exploit More Authors

15 March, 2018 // 4 Comments

Update: This post was originally published in November 2017, and was updated in March 2018 to reflect S&S's ongoing exploitation of authors. Of all the major publishers, Simon & Schuster is [Read More ...]

UK’s Book Industry Communication Criticizes Misuse of Metadata Fields for Marketing

12 March, 2018 // 6 Comments

Misusing a book's metadata is a well-known blackhat marketing technique. Amazon knows this, which is why for a decade now they have enforced a strict list of rules on what publishers and authors [Read More ...]

NYTimes Launches Audiobook Best-Seller List

6 March, 2018 // 6 Comments

The New York Times is launching an audiobook best-seller list on Thursday. The lists, which combine digital and physical audio sales, will debut online on Thursday, March 8, and in print in the [Read More ...]

Streetlib Launches a Publishing Services Marketplace

6 March, 2018 // 4 Comments

So you are an author, and you need help with your next book, but you don't know where to find it. You could ask other authors for recommendations, or you could visit one of the many publishing [Read More ...]

AAP Reports Publisher Revenues Up 1.7% Through October 2017

1 March, 2018 // 2 Comments

The Association of American Publishers reported on Thursday that tradpub were continuing to strangle their ebook sales in favor of print. In terms of category, adult fiction and non-fiction revenues [Read More ...]

Tech Tools for Authors #3: Automation

27 February, 2018 // 5 Comments

Authors have to juggle a lot of balls in today's book industry. Not only do they have to write that next book, they also have to market it, balance the ledgers, woo their fans on social media, do [Read More ...]

Updated: eBooks are a Stupid Product, and Other Blinkered Ramblings

19 February, 2018 // 31 Comments

Lagardère Publishing CEO Arnaud Nourry gave an interview to Scroll.in this weekend that showed both that he was remarkably ignorant about his products as well as how and why consumers value his [Read More ...]

Washington Post’s New Best-Seller List is Based on Data from Amazon Charts, Nielsen

8 February, 2018 // 3 Comments

It looks like Amazon has found a customer for data from Amazon Charts, the weekly best-seller list launched in May 2017. There's been no formal announcement from either the Post or Amazon, but the [Read More ...]

AAP Reports Publisher Revenues Flat Through September 2017

7 February, 2018 // 1 Comment

The Association of American Publishers announced on Wednesday that publisher revenues dropped by half a percent in the first three quarters of 2017 compared to the previous year. Trade [Read More ...]

Libre Office 6.0 Now Makes Epub eBooks

1 February, 2018 // 5 Comments

The open source office suite Libre Office gained support for exporting Epub files yesterday in its 6.0 release. LO Writer exports PDF, of course, but now also Epub: New filters for exporting Writer [Read More ...]

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