Podcast: New Nook Tablets, Audiobook Industry, InkedIN and Amazon Hachette Updates Welcome back to a jampacked edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show… Michael Kozlowski9 June 2014One comment1 minute read
New Tension Between Amazon, Hachette Over Book Terms With new contract terms up in the air between Amazon and some… Mercy Pilkington9 May 20142 comments2 minute read
Why Major Publishers Missed the Boat on Self-Publishing When it comes to self-publishing an eBook there are only a few… Michael Kozlowski7 May 20142 comments2 minute read
BookBub Secures Funding to Continue Serving Book Discovery As authors and publishers alike experiment with the sweet spot for ebook… Mercy Pilkington2 May 2014One comment2 minute read
Book Promo Tours Help Authors Stay Relevant in the Digital Era Publishers, agents, and publicists are taking a cue from the film and… Mercy Pilkington6 April 20143 comments2 minute read
Ingram Partnership Streamlines Pubishing Tools One of the country’s largest sources for printing books has teamed up… Mercy Pilkington4 April 2014No comments1 minute read
Comedienne Amy Pohler to Host World Book Night In less than a month, more than 10,000 community volunteers will venture… Mercy Pilkington27 March 2014One comment1 minute read
Renewed Focus on Books from BBC The high interest in comparing print and digital book sales has led… Mercy Pilkington26 March 20142 comments2 minute read
Snooki Sells More Books than Lynn Shepherd, and That Makes Me Happy Critics and industry watchers can hypothesize all they want to about what’s… Mercy Pilkington24 February 20145 comments2 minute read
Libboo Introduces New Tools for Authors, Publishers Authors and publishers alike–regardless of the route to book release–are constantly looking… Mercy Pilkington21 February 2014One comment2 minute read
James Patterson Provides $1M to Save Indie Bookstores Talk of the effects of digital publishing on indie bookstores has been… Mercy Pilkington20 February 20142 comments2 minute read
New Layer Creator Update Takes Augmented Reality Based Interactivity to the Next Level Layar, the mobile app that has taken reading magazines or newspapers to… Sovan Mandal19 February 2014No comments2 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
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: 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
Sylvia Day Defies the Numbers with Most Recent Multi-Digit Book Deal A study unveiled yesterday at the Digital Book World Conference and Expo… Mercy Pilkington16 January 20142 comments2 minute read
DBW, Writers Digest Survey on Author Satisfaction with the Industry Digital Book World and Writer’s Digest magazine announced some of the results… Mercy Pilkington15 January 20142 comments3 minute read
DBW’s Publisher and Startup Survey Results At this morning’s Digital Book World conference event, Mike Shatzkin shared an… Mercy Pilkington14 January 2014One comment2 minute read
Sourcebooks Publishers Thriving in Difficult Publishing Climate In an industry-wide climate in which booksellers are struggling to keep their… Mercy Pilkington14 January 20143 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
Derek Jeter Starts Jeter Publishing in Partnership With S&H Getting into book publishing business isn’t generally the most preferred post-retirement plan… Sovan Mandal16 November 2013No comments2 minute read
Ilan Stavans Set’s Up Publishing Firm Restless Books, Aiming For a Cosmopolitan Makeover of US Publishing Scene Writer Ilan Stavans is now set to don the publisher cap as… Sovan Mandal12 November 2013No comments1 minute read
What’s Next for BookExpo? Arguably one of the premier book industry events every year is the… Mercy Pilkington30 October 2013One comment2 minute read