Amazon Deletes Books Promoting “Cures” for Autism, Anti-Vax Content These are uncertain times for people peddling pseudoscience on some of the…Mercy Pilkington13 March 20193 comments2 minute read
Predators Ripping Off Authors Are Worse than Ever Imagine building a company slowly, one that is intended to give authors…Mercy Pilkington5 March 20192 comments2 minute read
Social Reading Just Got a Lot Sweeter In what has to be one of the best viral feel-good stories…Mercy Pilkington4 March 2019One comment2 minute read
2.2M Students Used Free OpenStax Digital Textbooks Last Year Digital textbooks were supposed to revolutionize and equalize education. By enabling access…Mercy Pilkington4 March 2019No comments2 minute read
Reedsy Launches Book Discovery Platform for Indie Authors Since the the dawn of the current indie publishing revolution, startups across…Mercy Pilkington4 March 2019No comments2 minute read
Is the Dream of a Traditional Book Deal Dead? There was a time when self-publishing your book through a vanity press…Mercy Pilkington20 February 20196 comments2 minute read
New Allegations of Romance Plagiarism To the outsider, the publishing world might not seem like a hotbed…Mercy Pilkington19 February 201938 comments2 minute read
Pearson Sells Off Digital Textbook, School Courseware Division Widely-known educational publisher Pearson has been giving hints and reports since 2017…Mercy Pilkington19 February 2019One comment2 minute read
Amazon Crossing Kids Brings Intl Works to Young Readers There’s a great big world out there, and Amazon’s latest imprint is…Mercy Pilkington27 January 2019No comments2 minute read
Print or Digital Isn’t the Issue in Kids’ Reading Ever since the dawn of widely available ebooks and e-readers, there’s been…Mercy Pilkington25 January 2019No comments2 minute read
Indie Bookshops Are Back from the Brink The meteoric rise of Amazon into a global retail empire has hit…Mercy Pilkington11 January 20192 comments2 minute read
2018 Set New Records for Library eBook Lending If you haven’t borrowed an ebook from your local public library, it’s…Mercy Pilkington8 January 2019One comment2 minute read
Authors Don’t Make As Much Money, AG Report Finds “According to the survey, literary authors suffered the largest decline in…Mercy Pilkington8 January 2019One comment1 minute read
Reading Is Good For Your Brain…Who Knew? It might seem like common sense: reading makes you smarter. But it’s…Mercy Pilkington8 January 2019One comment2 minute read
Tate Publishing Crooks Receive 20 Years, Nearly $1M in Restitution In a victory for indie authors, the founder and CEO of vanity…Mercy Pilkington20 December 20184 comments2 minute read
Goodreads Announces the Best Books of 2018 Just in time for holiday gift giving, Goodreads has released its list…Mercy Pilkington6 December 2018No comments1 minute read
