Is Self-Publishing Still a Flash in the Pan? Yeah, Right. In case you were waiting for the hoopla surrounding self-publishing to die… Mercy Pilkington12 October 2018One comment1 minute read
Wattpad Authors Have An Opportunity To Earn from their Stories Okay, authors, be ready to watch events unfold without getting your hopes… Mercy Pilkington4 October 2018One comment1 minute read
EU Removes VAT on eBooks In a decision that has been years in the making, the EU… Mercy Pilkington2 October 2018No comments2 minute read
PA Prisons Stop Donations of Print Books for Inmates, switch to ebooks The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is drawing criticism for a recent regulation… Mercy Pilkington23 September 20182 comments2 minute read
Seven-Figure Advance for Biz Book by Netflix CEO “Netflix and chill” just took on a new–and clean–meaning thanks to a book deal for its CEO Reed Hastings. Mercy Pilkington26 August 2018No comments2 minute read
Keanu Reeves Launches Book Imprint but It’s Not Erotic Lit Reeves and his business partner have launched a publishing imprint that is anything but vapid or even pop culture-centric. Mercy Pilkington22 August 20182 comments2 minute read
Research Shows What Books Do to Kids’ Brains The publishing industry has changed a lot for kids since the early… Mercy Pilkington27 May 20183 comments2 minute read
Can Ambient Lit Bring Reading Back to Phones? The evolution of digital publishing and e-reading has been long and winding,… Mercy Pilkington22 May 2018One comment2 minute read
Long Live the e-Reader An article appeared this week, one that sagely but somewhat inflamingly asks… Mercy Pilkington27 February 201813 comments2 minute read
Textbook Rentals Tackle Skyrocketing Costs College costs have risen by as much as 1200% in the past… Mercy Pilkington11 February 2018One comment3 minute read
Amazon Launches New Imprint Original Stories Like many other traditional publishers, Amazon Publishing has multiple imprints under its… Mercy Pilkington28 November 20172 comments1 minute read
New eBook Platform Solves Promo Problems As reading consumers, we’ve gone from having no digital content to have… Mercy Pilkington20 November 2017One comment2 minute read
Pronoun Self-Publishing Platform Closes Its Doors Yet another self-publishing service has closed its doors, but in the case… Mercy Pilkington7 November 2017One comment2 minute read
It’s NaNo Time Again… Ordinary folks may be stringing a few more fake cobwebs around the… Mercy Pilkington30 October 2017One comment2 minute read
Pottermore Goes Physical with Art The beloved fan site Pottermore announced this week that it’s bringing the… Mercy Pilkington30 October 2017One comment1 minute read
Colin Kaepernick Signs $1M Book Deal with Random House Score one for the good guys… Page Six has just announced that… Mercy Pilkington26 October 201710 comments2 minute read
Amazon Updates Its Kindle App It’s been roughly ten years since Amazon launched its Kindle app for… Mercy Pilkington24 October 20173 comments2 minute read
Students Still Don’t Interact with Digital as Effectively as Print The era of the digital native still hasn’t morphed to include education,… Mercy Pilkington23 October 20172 comments2 minute read
New Bowker Study Finds Increasing Growth in SelfPub ISBNs If there was still doubt in anyone’s mind that self-publishing is not… Mercy Pilkington12 October 2017One comment1 minute read
Goodreads Turns Ten Users and book lovers alike have heard the news about the decade… Mercy Pilkington26 September 2017One comment2 minute read
