Where Are All the Digital Textbooks? Students Don’t Want ‘Em With back to school season starting to show its summer-stealing flare, students… Mercy Pilkington9 August 201614 comments2 minute read
Get Ready for the Olympics with a Free Lonely Planet eBook One of the early top names in travel ebooks was Lonely Planet,… Mercy Pilkington5 August 20163 comments2 minute read
Do Republicans Read? There have been two major sales spikes in the past week, both… Mercy Pilkington2 August 201623 comments2 minute read
Anne Rice Proves Lestat Is Truly Immortal Anne Rice first broke the mold on vampire fiction when her iconic… Mercy Pilkington29 July 2016One comment2 minute read
Ixxus Launches End-to-End Publishing Solution With the launch of the digital publishing revolution, there was no shortage… Mercy Pilkington25 July 2016One comment2 minute read
Taking Copyright Infringement to Small Claims Court In a move that’s been a long time coming, the Authors Guild… Mercy Pilkington21 July 2016One comment2 minute read
Melania Trump and the New Outrage over Plagiarism If you’ve had the good fortune to spend even a passing few… Mercy Pilkington20 July 2016One comment2 minute read
How Romance Authors Are Really Faring Author Earnings is at it again, this time sharing crucial information on… Mercy Pilkington18 July 2016No comments2 minute read
Pokemon Go and the Book Marketing Angle As Pokemon Go continues to take over social media and gamers’ lives–in… Mercy Pilkington14 July 20162 comments2 minute read
Pokemon Go Erotica Hits eBook Shelves Gotta catch ’em all… or something like that. Rabid fans of the… Mercy Pilkington12 July 20162 comments2 minute read
Bodice-Ripper No More: Harlequin Branches Out into the Mainstream Historically, the name Harlequin has been so closely tied to romance publishing… Mercy Pilkington7 July 2016One comment2 minute read
Get Patriotic with Some Donald Trump Fan Fic Happy Independence Day to all those US readers who celebrate. In between… Mercy Pilkington4 July 2016One comment2 minute read
Amazon Launches Free Teacher Resource Site There is no such thing as adequate funding when it comes to… Mercy Pilkington29 June 20162 comments2 minute read
Move Over Wattpad, Sweek Seeks Authors, Readers In the world of digital publishing, there are a lot of copycats… Mercy Pilkington29 June 20163 comments2 minute read
Indie Authors to Finally See their Books on B&N Shelves About three years ago, then-VP, Digital Content and GM of Barnes and… Mercy Pilkington28 June 2016One comment5 minute read
Should Indie Authors Give their Books Away for Free? There are so many national and global debates that rage endlessly–marriage equality,… Mercy Pilkington26 June 2016One comment2 minute read
Knight Foundation Contest Awards $1.6M for 21st Century Library Design With the advent of the information age, digital literacy, and the ease… Mercy Pilkington24 June 2016One comment2 minute read
Using Book Awards to Drive Indie Author Sales When self-publishing first began to gain some measure of respect in the… Mercy Pilkington21 June 2016One comment2 minute read
Do We Still Need to Disrupt Publishing? When the digital and self-publishing revolution took off only a handful of… Mercy Pilkington17 June 2016One comment2 minute read
Ebook Piracy Still Plaguing Authors It started out not-so-innocently enough with a now-deleted, vapid Facebook post from… Mercy Pilkington16 June 2016One comment2 minute read
Kotobee Makes Self-Published Digital Textbooks Possible The digital revolution is well underway, but one of the original promises… Mercy Pilkington1 April 20162 comments2 minute read
Who Needs a Publishing Slush Pile When There’s YouTube? Once upon a time, the process of landing a book deal started… Mercy Pilkington12 June 2015No comments2 minute read
Why Are There Still Issues Facing Self-Published Authors? It’s literally been years since self-publishing took off in a major way… Mercy Pilkington9 June 20152 comments3 minute read
