Resurgence of Indie Bookstores Means They Have a New Role to Fill A number of articles have been written lately, like this prominent one… Mercy Pilkington16 December 2013One comment2 minute read
eBook Review: King & Maxwell by David Baldacci Verdict: 4 Stars There can be a lot of pressure on an… Mercy Pilkington15 December 20132 comments2 minute read
Digitization of 550-Year-Old Bible Sparks Conversation About Publishing Sometimes, the real news on the internet happens in the comments’ section,… Mercy Pilkington15 December 20133 comments2 minute read
Book Riot Readers Select Their Favorite Books of 2013 Book Riot, a site for all things book love, polled its users… Mercy Pilkington13 December 2013No comments2 minute read
Turkey Enacts Law to Lower VAT on eBooks One of the initial debates about the recent growth of digital publishing… Mercy Pilkington13 December 2013One comment2 minute read
FanFiction Gets a Boost from New Publisher’s Kickstarter Campaign One of the more polarizing arguments in the publishing industry is the… Mercy Pilkington13 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Pubsoft, Transmedia Partner to Bring Complete Digital Storytelling Experience to eBooks Digital publishing platform Pubsoft announced today that it has partnered with Transmedia… Mercy Pilkington12 December 2013No comments2 minute read
eBook Prices Still a Sensitive Issue for Authors, Publishers As more and more holiday shoppers scramble to finish up their holiday… Mercy Pilkington12 December 20133 comments2 minute read
Judge Throws Out Conspiracy Case Against Amazon, Publishers At the same time five of the then-Big Six publishers and Apple… Mercy Pilkington12 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Wattpad Contest Winners Receive Publishing Contracts with Harlequin Story posting social media site Wattpad has garnered a tremendous following in… Mercy Pilkington11 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Strong News About Library Use by Pew Internet One of the really interesting dynamics about public libraries is that, even… Mercy Pilkington11 December 20132 comments2 minute read
Quebec’s Book Price Fixing Law Can Ruin the Book Economy The government of Quebec has gone forward with a law that was… Mercy Pilkington11 December 20135 comments2 minute read
Efforts to Intervene in Disbursement of Refunds in DOJ, Publisher Suit Late last week, Judge Denise Cote, the judge who has presided over… Mercy Pilkington10 December 20132 comments2 minute read
Publishers, Take Note: YA Genre Growing at Faster Rate Some surprising information from Nielsen Book Scan has showed that, not only… Mercy Pilkington9 December 20132 comments2 minute read
New Journaling App Can Prove Handy for Authors A new app, Heyday, that joins a growing list of mobile apps… Mercy Pilkington9 December 20132 comments2 minute read
eBook Review: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck Verdict: 4 Stars Game developer and author Jeff Kinney has done it… Mercy Pilkington8 December 20132 comments1 minute read
New Social Media Site Aimed Specifically at New Adult Explicit Romance Simon&Schuster UK has recently announced the launch of a genre-specific social media… Mercy Pilkington8 December 2013One comment1 minute read
Give the Gift of Subscription Reading this Holiday Season Sometimes, it’s not enough to know that Aunt Janet loves to read,… Mercy Pilkington6 December 2013No comments2 minute read
McGraw Hill Teams Up with OverDrive to Offer Catalog of Professional Titles OverDrive, the world’s largest provider of digital content to academic and public… Mercy Pilkington5 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Publishing Plays a Part in Chinese Fascination with Record Breaking An area of interest in much of the Chinese culture is a… Mercy Pilkington5 December 20132 comments2 minute read
Want Your Kids to Read More? Leave Them Alone. In-depth details on what motivates reading in children have come out in… Mercy Pilkington4 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Amazon Launches New Short Story Publishing Imprint StoryFront One of the most potentially useful features of digital publishing was the… Mercy Pilkington4 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Amazon Launches 12 Days of Deals Amazon has relaunched its reader-centric promotion from last year’s holiday season, Twelve… Mercy Pilkington3 December 2013One comment1 minute read
