Scribd, Smashwords Partner to Put Indie Authors’ Work in Subscription Service This might be a biased statement given the amount of news that… Mercy Pilkington19 December 20133 comments2 minute read
Vellum Self-Publishing App for Mac Aims to Do It All… A new self-publishing app for Mac by software veterans Brad Andalman and… Mercy Pilkington19 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Kindle Worlds Releases Work by Howey Based on Slaughterhouse Five When Amazon Publishing announced the creation of its fan fiction publishing site… Mercy Pilkington17 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Is the Publishing Industry Wasting Its Time on Tablets? One of the anticipated major trends of 2013, at least according to… Mercy Pilkington17 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Without a Blockbuster Title for the Holidays, Indie Authors Can Step Up to the Plate The past few holiday shopping seasons have seen a good-sized upswing in… Mercy Pilkington16 December 2013No comments1 minute read
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
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
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
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
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
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