We’ve all heard the news – publishers are running scared from the success that self-publishers are finding with Kindle and other e-readers. But perhaps they shouldn’t be scared. Maybe publishers can learn and adapt to the changing industry. Business Insider recently posted some advice to traditional publishers. The bad news is: you’re now competing with [...] Read more »
Random House Gives In: Agrees To Publisher Pricing Model
Random House, the last major publisher to hold out from adopting the “agency pricing model” which allows publishers to set pricing of e-books while providing retailers with a 30 percent cut, has changed its tune. It’s adopting the agency model, which is lauded by some publishers and authors, but loathed by some readers because it [...] Read more »
The Reports Of Publishing’s Death Are Exaggerations
To bastardize Twain’s quote a bit, the reports of publishing’s death are exaggerations. It wasn’t too long ago that doomsayers seemed all too eager to bury the written word in favor of a digital world in which we’d all suck from a collective electronic teat until we forgot how to read and devolved back into [...] Read more »
Amazon: The Next Publishing Powerhouse?
What if a book publisher knew exactly what kinds of books readers were looking for? What if the same publisher had access to customer data which would help it market the books people like based on their past book purchases? That could be the reality, as Amazon seems poised to make a big push into [...] Read more »
The Collective Inkwell Interview: Emma Newman
Emma Newman is the author of the soon-to-be-published Twenty Years Later, her debut young adult fiction novel set in a post-apocalyptic future, which she has been podcasting since last year. She lives in Somerset, England with her husband and two year old son. Though he’s an only child, she considers him her second child – [...] Read more »
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