China’s eBook Space Comes into its Own As more ebook retailers continue to work towards abandoning ship in the… Mercy Pilkington11 March 2014One comment2 minute read
What Happens When Amazon Is the Last One Standing? We’ve heard speculation and criticism for years about how Amazon is ruining… Mercy Pilkington10 March 20149 comments2 minute read
New Survey Demonstrates Rise in Library Spending Library Journal has released the results of its 2014 survey, which tracks… Mercy Pilkington10 March 2014One comment2 minute read
Amtrak Writers’ Residencies Closer to Being a Reality What began life as a wishful what-if exchange on Twitter has now… Mercy Pilkington8 March 2014One comment2 minute read
What Does It Take to Sell 100M eBooks? Smut and Marketing It still makes headlines whenever a self-published author manages to sell one… Mercy Pilkington6 March 20143 comments2 minute read
Stories Etc Launches eMemoir App Powered by Pubsoft Exciting new uses for digital publishing are taking place every day, whether… Mercy Pilkington4 March 2014One comment2 minute read
Smashwords Announces Author Promo for Read an eBook Week Pioneering self-publishing and ebook distribution site Smashwords made an announcement for all… Mercy Pilkington1 March 20142 comments1 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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