Reddit Enables Users to Create Open-Source Journalism The internet isn’t just for cat videos and goofy memes, it would… Mercy Pilkington27 February 2014One comment2 minute read
Macmillan Makes Complete Catalog Available for Digital Lending through OverDrive From the very beginning of digital lending through libraries and personal consumer… Mercy Pilkington26 February 2014One comment2 minute read
Writing the Rails: Amtrak’s Writers’ Residencies Authors might find inspiration in some really unique places. Many writers have… Mercy Pilkington26 February 20142 comments1 minute read
New AuthorEarnings Report Highlights B&N Sales Massive change is being sparked in the publishing industry, thanks to the… Mercy Pilkington26 February 2014One comment1 minute read
Pubsoft, Vidalhia Sign to Deal to Foster Prison Publishing Digital publishing has arguably opened more doors to publication than any other… Mercy Pilkington25 February 2014One comment2 minute read
Towerbabel and the Launch of Social Writing For the past several years, social reading has been an undercurrent of… Mercy Pilkington25 February 20142 comments2 minute read
More News on Authors Behaving Badly, Using Well-Known Authors’ Names as Pseudonyms In an interesting chain of events, ebook retailers’ crackdown on erotica titles… Mercy Pilkington25 February 2014One comment2 minute read
McGraw-Hill Professional Offers eBooks to Libraries through Axis 360 School and public libraries may have gotten a boost today through a… Mercy Pilkington24 February 2014One comment1 minute read
Snooki Sells More Books than Lynn Shepherd, and That Makes Me Happy Critics and industry watchers can hypothesize all they want to about what’s… Mercy Pilkington24 February 20145 comments2 minute read
Vook Acquires BookIR, Means Realistic Book Sales Data The publishing industry has spent the past few weeks reeling from the… Mercy Pilkington24 February 2014No comments2 minute read
eBook Review: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton Verdict: 1 Star Congratulations go to Ms. Catton, as she has the… Mercy Pilkington23 February 20144 comments2 minute read
PediaPress: An Idea So Backwards That It’s Revolutionary Wikipedia may be the saving grace of every hot-wings-and-trivia-night guru, but it… Mercy Pilkington23 February 2014One comment2 minute read
Libboo Introduces New Tools for Authors, Publishers Authors and publishers alike–regardless of the route to book release–are constantly looking… Mercy Pilkington21 February 2014One comment2 minute read
Court Appointed Babysitter for Apple in DOJ Case As part of the terms in the ongoing proceedings against Apple in… Mercy Pilkington20 February 2014One comment2 minute read
Anne Rice Defends Authors from Online Bullying Once you reach a certain point in your career, regardless of what… Mercy Pilkington20 February 201426 comments2 minute read
Half Million MOOC Users Sign Up for Europe’s iversity One of the increasingly popular forms of personal education is MOOCs, or… Mercy Pilkington20 February 2014One comment2 minute read
James Patterson Provides $1M to Save Indie Bookstores Talk of the effects of digital publishing on indie bookstores has been… Mercy Pilkington20 February 20142 comments2 minute read
Anti-Transparency: Why Are Book Sales a Secret? The book industry has certainly been overwhelmed since the beginning of 2014… Mercy Pilkington19 February 201412 comments3 minute read
Self Publishing: C’mon, Everybody’s Doing It A new report by internationally available self-publishing platform Blurb Books led to… Mercy Pilkington19 February 2014No comments2 minute read
New Update to Wattpad’s iOS, Android Apps Makes Stories Portable Wattpad, the global story sharing site that has a user following of… Mercy Pilkington18 February 20142 comments2 minute read
New Whitepaper Advises Academic Publishers to Think Outside the Book A new report, issued today by global publishing adviser Ixxus, aims to… Mercy Pilkington18 February 2014One comment2 minute read
