The Beauty in Digital Publishing What is a story? More importantly, what is publishing? Is it only… Mercy Pilkington17 February 2014One comment1 minute read
New Rowling Title “The Silkworm” Continues Gilbraith Series Since the cat’s out of the bag, JK Rowling can freely let… Mercy Pilkington17 February 2014One comment2 minute read
eBook Review: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Verdict: 3 Stars Donna Tartt’s book The Goldfinch, has over 4K reviews… Mercy Pilkington17 February 20143 comments1 minute read
Death and Destruction: Overused Terms to Describe Publishing Can we all agree that we will stop using terms like “killing”… Mercy Pilkington17 February 2014One comment1 minute read
eBook Review: Take a Chance by Abbi Glines Verdict: 3 Stars Self-published sensation turned traditionally published romance/erotic romance author Abbi… Mercy Pilkington17 February 2014No comments1 minute read
Transparency: Author HM Ward Discusses eBook Sales and Pricing A number of authors, including JA Konrath and Hugh Howey, made international… Mercy Pilkington16 February 2014One comment2 minute read
Does the Publishing Industry Discriminate? A quick search of the Amazon Kindle store reveals over two million… Mercy Pilkington15 February 20142 comments2 minute read
Us vs Them Rears Its Head in Publishing Once More First, there was JA Konrath’s post with Hugh Howey on how to… Mercy Pilkington13 February 2014One comment3 minute read
Reimagining the Personal Library With so much focus on the plight of libraries, a number of… Mercy Pilkington13 February 2014One comment2 minute read
Amazon: Game Changer or Whipping Boy? Warning: you’ll need your tissue box handy when you read this piece… Mercy Pilkington13 February 201422 comments3 minute read
Kobo, Bella Andre Launch Three-Month Exclusive Book Deal In another brilliant career move by highly successful self-published author Bella Andre,… Mercy Pilkington12 February 2014One comment2 minute read
Amazon Publishing Wins Auction of Self-Published Author’s New Thriller While the news indicates that Amazon Publishing may be floundering a little… Mercy Pilkington12 February 20142 comments2 minute read
Traditional Publishers Learn What Indie Authors Have Known All Along Ask any traditionally published author what frustrates him most about the industry,… Mercy Pilkington11 February 20143 comments3 minute read
Can Digitization Go Too Far? A massive digitization project involving the cooperation of two governments and the… Mercy Pilkington11 February 2014One comment2 minute read
Libraries Fight Back Against Planned Closings With libraries around the world coming under almost as much threat of… Mercy Pilkington11 February 20142 comments2 minute read
Open Road Acquires eBook Publisher E-Reads An announcement today shared that the oldest ebook publisher and the largest… Mercy Pilkington10 February 2014One comment2 minute read
DreamWorks Animation to Hold Its Own Children’s eBook Imprint One surefire way to get kids reading–especially low-ability and reluctant readers–is to… Mercy Pilkington10 February 2014One comment1 minute read
Vampire Diaries Author Publishes Her Own FanFic of the Work For those who only know the sexiness and paranormal tension of the… Mercy Pilkington9 February 2014One comment2 minute read
Poorly Translated Public Domain Titles Removed from Amazon Now that anyone can self-publish an ebook, critics have argued that the… Mercy Pilkington8 February 2014One comment2 minute read
Canada Institutes Its Own eBook Terms with Publishers Following the court drama of the Department of Justice investigation of five… Mercy Pilkington7 February 20142 comments2 minute read
Kotobi, First Arab eBookstore, Launches at Cairo Book Fair With the Cairo Book Fair wrapping up this week–amidst controversy, as journalists… Mercy Pilkington7 February 2014One comment2 minute read