Industry News
Tor rips up the rulebook on digital rights management
26th April, 2012Authors, agents and retailers welcome science fiction publisher's announcement that its entire ebook list is to become DRM-freeTor, the world's biggest science fiction publisher and home to authors including Orson Scott Card, China Miéville and Cory...
Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight Review: An E-Reader That’s Not Afraid of the Dark
24th April, 2012Well-done, built-in illumination makes this the E Ink reader to get if you want to read in bed.
Why trailblazing Amazon should take on the publishing establishment
24th April, 2012Scaremongers who warn of of a potential Amazon monopoly conveniently forget that one already exists in shape of legacy publishersAs the author of nine novels (the most recent, The Detachment, published by Amazon) and four self-published wor...
More Anti-Trust Woes Ahead For Apple?
22nd April, 2012When John D. Rockefeller was told about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to break up Standard Oil, the founding titan turned to his golfing partner and said, “Father Lennon, have you some money?” The priest first said, “No,” but then ask...
Voldemort’s Got Nothing On Jeff Bezos
21st April, 2012E-books. Again. Amazon and the DOJ vs. Apple and "The Big Six." The future of reading. A breathtakingly stupid David Carr piece in the New York Times, which thankfully someone else took down paragraph-by-paragraph, so I don't have to. Elsewhere, an a...
Your favourite novel – now with added sound
16th April, 2012Now that the ebook of Andrew Motion's sequel to Treasure Island is to benefit from sound effects, can you identify these four novels rendered in sound?The ebook of Andrew Motion's recently published sequel to Treasure Island is to have sound effects ...
Boyd Morrison: A Detour in the Publishing Journey
16th April, 2012I'm back to where I was in 2009, with a highly praised novel and no one willing to publish it. Before electronic self-publishing became a viable alternative, that would have been the book's death sentence.
Jim Kukral: The New Business Model of Book Publishing
16th April, 2012As more established, quality authors who kept the rights to their work figure out that it's to their advantage to publish themselves on Kindle rather than beg for contracts from \"big\" publishers, there will be an explosion of great work available i...
Amazon’s E-Book Pricing a Constant Thorn for Publishers
16th April, 2012In February, the Educational Development Corporation said it would remove its titles from Amazon, more evidence of the tumult over who gets to decide how much a book costs.
Dan Agin: EBooks: Windbagging the Price Issue
15th April, 2012Here are some truths about the current brouhaha concerning the Department of Justice and the Big Six publishers and Apple controversy.