Indie authors have long had a phenomenal tool that helped them reach readers and build a following. Wattpad, the free reading and writing platform, has provided both authors and book fans with an abundance of content and an instant audience. As one of the world's largest platforms of its kind, Wattpad has truly changed the game in terms of connecting readers to writers. The … [Read more...] about One Wattpad Story Has 282 YEARS’ Worth of Reads
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The 2017 State of Self-Publishing
It's been twenty-two years since Jeff Bezos hung out the shingle on Amazon, and twelve years since his company unleashed the Kindle on the world. It was only three years later that the retail and publishing giant launched a platform that truly changed publishing, for better or for worse. From 2007 to 2017, a mind-blowing pace for evolution, much has changed about book … [Read more...] about The 2017 State of Self-Publishing
Here is what the B&N Put Me in the Story Looks Like
Barnes and Noble announced earlier today that they have launched a new program in their bookstores and online that allow you to put your child in the story. You can upload pictures, enter their name and even customize the overall design. The bookseller has partnered with Sourcebooks for this initiative and people have been wondering what the final product looks like. … [Read more...] about Here is what the B&N Put Me in the Story Looks Like
Cutting Out Amazon: Why Direct-to-Consumers Hasn’t Taken Off
At this year's Digital Book World event, there's a highly anticipated panel on publishers selling directly to readers, branding themselves for their loyal fans in such a way that there's no need to haggle with Amaz-- make that, negotiate with book retailers. Unfortunately, this highly anticipated panel just isn't new. Publishing industry events have been debating the ins and … [Read more...] about Cutting Out Amazon: Why Direct-to-Consumers Hasn’t Taken Off
BookExpo 2014 In Pictures
Author Rick Riordan and Hachette's Vanessa Vazquez met up with the team from Disney Digital Publishing while the author was discussing an exciting new project coming up that will coincide with Riordan's bestselling Percy Jackson series. FastPencil's Steve Wilson displaying their IDPF Innovation Award for their streamlined ebook creation and distribution … [Read more...] about BookExpo 2014 In Pictures
PubSmartCon Kicks Off Tomorrow in Charleston
A revolution in writing and publishing conferences will kick off tomorrow in Charleston, South Carolina, one that is working to bridge all aspects of the publishing industries to better enable professionals of every kind. Alongside self-publishing mainstays like Hugh Howey, Nook Press, and Bibliocrunch will be speakers like Stephanie Bowen of Sourcebooks and Tracey Adams of … [Read more...] about PubSmartCon Kicks Off Tomorrow in Charleston
UK eBook Lending Program a Success for Libraries, Publishers
A recent program for UK libraries to lend ebooks has been considered not only a success for institutions and patrons, but also for publishers given the number of click through sales that resulted from borrows. The report, given at a panel at the London Book Fair this week, was from the Society of Chief Librarians (SCL) president Janene Cox. The program, launched on March … [Read more...] about UK eBook Lending Program a Success for Libraries, Publishers
Sourcebooks Adds Beloved Peanuts Titles to Put Me in the Story
Sourcebooks' launch of its fully personalized and customizable enhanced ebook platform Put Me in the Story has become almost as well-known and well-loved as the characters and story lines that it incorporates. Using existing characters and allowing other publishers to use the personalization features for their own titles has opened up a whole world of possibilities in the gift … [Read more...] about Sourcebooks Adds Beloved Peanuts Titles to Put Me in the Story
Sourcebooks: Rethinking Failure in the Digital Age
Sourcebooks' CEO Dominique Raccah is a force for change in publishing, priding herself on a near-extreme disruptive status where books and readers are concerned. But as Raccah explained in an interview with Good e-Reader this morning, the most extreme failure companies can face at this point is to dismiss a new platform, technology, or opportunity as non-viable, as too often … [Read more...] about Sourcebooks: Rethinking Failure in the Digital Age
The CEOs Speak: Growth in Digital Books
A long-standing tradition at Digital Book World's conferences is to start with a panel of publishing CEOs for a roundtable discussion of where the industry is and where it's going. This year's first morning panel included names such as F+W Media's David Nussbaum, O'Reilly Media's Tim O'Reilly, Sourcebooks' Dominique Raccah, and Simon & Schuster's Carolyn Reidy. Reidy's … [Read more...] about The CEOs Speak: Growth in Digital Books
Sourcebooks Publishers Thriving in Difficult Publishing Climate
In an industry-wide climate in which booksellers are struggling to keep their doors open and publishers are announcing cuts to submissions and marketing budgets for new titles, Sourcebooks has managed to not only maintain its solid position in the industry, but also to post double digit sales increases over last year. All of its categories showed an increase of at least 22% … [Read more...] about Sourcebooks Publishers Thriving in Difficult Publishing Climate
More Publishers Begin to Accept Unagented Submissions
Prior to the current digital publishing and self-publishing revolutions, the process for an author to get published was tedious, beginning with the very first gatekeeper: finding an agent. The literary agent, whose role may be shifting but by no means is disappearing, was often the first entity to pass judgment on a book's merit, accepting or rejecting the title … [Read more...] about More Publishers Begin to Accept Unagented Submissions
Sourcebooks, Living Social Launch Book Deal for Readers
Forget the cutting edge of innovation...Sourcebooks sharpens that edge on a daily basis. With everything from offering up one of its bestselling titles for free to OverDrive for the Big Library Read, to the creation of the Put Me in the Story platform that they opened up to other publishers to use, Sourcebooks constantly reshapes the very image of publishing. Today, the … [Read more...] about Sourcebooks, Living Social Launch Book Deal for Readers
Second OverDrive “Big Library Read” Project Includes School Libraries
Earlier this year, digital content distributor OverDrive partnered with publisher Sourcebooks in an experiment aimed at establishing concrete data on how readers respond in terms of book borrows and book sales to digital titles they check out from their libraries. Sourcebooks made one of its titles available to OverDrive's member libraries for a predetermined period of time … [Read more...] about Second OverDrive “Big Library Read” Project Includes School Libraries