Hybrid Crowdfunding Blends Two Publishing Paths When author Solomon Inkwell queried agents with his YA vampire novel Vickie… Mercy Pilkington8 February 20152 comments2 minute read
What Can Super Bowl Ads Tell Digital Magazine Publishers? Most American consumers have watched (and even enjoyed) a Super Bowl ad… Mercy Pilkington6 February 2015One comment2 minute read
Clippet News App Takes on Murdoch’s Empire Rupert Murdoch’s name is infamous in the world of print and television… Mercy Pilkington6 February 20152 comments2 minute read
Magazine Media in the Digital Publishing Era At this week’s American Magazine Media Conference in New York, top CEOs… Mercy Pilkington5 February 2015No comments2 minute read
Backlash Against Mockingbird Sequel as Concerns for Author’s Status Come Out The reading world was riveted earlier this week by reports that a… Mercy Pilkington5 February 2015One comment2 minute read
The Impact of Digital Magazine Covers One of the early complaints about ebooks was that they weren’t taking… Mercy Pilkington4 February 2015One comment1 minute read
What Would You Pay to Read a Book? What can $294,038 buy you? According to one author, it can buy… Mercy Pilkington4 February 2015One comment2 minute read
HarperCollins to Publish Sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird The day that literary fans have eagerly awaited has finally come with… Mercy Pilkington3 February 20152 comments2 minute read
Kindle Convert Software Creates eBooks from Your Print Content The digital publishing revolution didn’t only put publishing access and large-volume content… Mercy Pilkington3 February 2015One comment2 minute read
The Indie Author Dream: Fact or Fiction? Much of the ongoing drama between the self-publishing proponents and the traditional… Mercy Pilkington2 February 20152 comments2 minute read
Competition in the Digital Library Content Market Just as publishers and book retailers compete for reading consumers’ time and… Mercy Pilkington2 February 2015One comment3 minute read
Romance Still Tops Bestsellers at Smashwords eBook distribution platform Smashwords has forged a lot of the paths that… Mercy Pilkington1 February 2015One comment2 minute read
Digital Magazines as Marketing, Information Tools Most consumers may know of digital magazines for their information and entertainment… Mercy Pilkington1 February 20152 comments2 minute read
Amazon Announces a New KDP Select Perk: Amazon Marketing Services Authors who’ve enrolled their books in Amazon’s exclusive program KDP Select might… Mercy Pilkington31 January 2015One comment3 minute read
Paperight to Shut Its Doors In sad news for extending the reach of ebooks and print-on-demand, global… Mercy Pilkington30 January 2015No comments2 minute read
Digital Newspapers Save the Local Coverage Market Newspapers around the country have been in a steady decline over the… Mercy Pilkington29 January 2015One comment2 minute read
Author Earnings 2015: Indies Are Still Winning, the Industry Still Doesn’t Believe It You have to hand it to Hugh Howey and the elusive Data… Mercy Pilkington29 January 2015One comment3 minute read
Book Baby Just Broke the Internet for Indie Authors Since the original innovations in digital publishing and self-publishing first came along,… Mercy Pilkington28 January 2015One comment2 minute read
New Report Uncovers China’s Book Sales If there was every any doubt about the need for authors and… Mercy Pilkington28 January 2015One comment2 minute read
SelfPublishing Info Sessions for Indie Authors In some ways, the current state of digital publishing is even more… Mercy Pilkington27 January 2015One comment2 minute read
