An Author’s Glimpse Into The Operation Of A Book Publishing Company
The publishing company is the backbone of the writing world. The publishing company provides a great service to society by publishing and displaying the work [Read More]
Publishers
Readers Don’t Care Who Publishes Your Book–Really!
One of my private amusements is the serendipity surrounding how well my different books sell, or not. And how that really doesn’t align with who [Read More]
Is Facebook a Publisher? In Public It Says No, but In Court It Says Yes
In its defense against a former app startup, Facebook is contradicting its long-held claim to be simply a neutral platform Facebook has long had the [Read More]
The Role of Editors and How Publishing Giants Retard Growth of the Publishing Industry
The Book Business: A Critical Insight into the Nigerian Book Publishing Industry could only have been written by someone with vast experience and knowledge. The [Read More]
Whatever Happened to the Book Herman Melville Wrote After ‘Moby-Dick’?
Book publishing—like many commercial industries—is inherently a gamble. You can pick your favorite spec manuscripts, think the author behind it is brilliant, spend gobs of [Read More]
Traditional Publishing Ebook Sales Dropped 10% In 2017
Traditionally published children’s ebooks fell 22% in 2017, while young adult ebook sales fell 8%. Traditional publishers sold 10% fewer ebook units in 2017 compared with [Read More]
Traditional Publishing vs. Self Publishing (Video)
I had the amazing opportunity to sit down with Meg LaTorre of iWriterly and ask her all of your questions regarding traditional publishing. Meg is [Read More]
Rise of eBooks Leaves Book Publishing Industry Needing to Refresh the Page
NDO – The fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0, has brought about fundamental changes in various fields, including the book publishing industry. Many people now [Read More]
How Small, Scrappy Local Book Presses Have Turned L.A. Into a Publishing Town
Colleen Dunn Bates became a publisher almost in spite of herself. “I started in the book business unintentionally,” she laughs, sitting at a conference table [Read More]
London Book Fair 2018: How Committed Is Canada to Its Writers and Publishers?
The amount the provinces are trying to recover in this latest suit amounts to a rounding error in a country that spends more than $50 [Read More]
How Trump Is Shaking Up the Book Industry
America’s literary bubble is rethinking its identity. Donald Trump’s election victory plunged America’s elite, liberal and coastal circles into an identity crisis, as journalists and [Read More]
» 28 Publishers Seeking Young Adult Manuscripts
Young adult is one of my favorite genres to read, even though when I was a young adult I struggled to find good YA books. [Read More]
Challenging the Definitions of Publishing
Academic libraries are increasingly launching their own publishing programmes, writes Sarah Lippincott Libraries have a long history of stewarding scholarly literature. Increasingly, they are applying [Read More]
» Tell-Tale Publishing: Now Accepting Manuscript Submissions
Tell-Tale Publishing is a small press founded in 2009. They seem to focus primarily on eBooks but also they have print options (largely print on [Read More]
» 13 Imprints of Big 5 Publishers That Accept Unsolicited Submissions
Getting published by one of the big five publishers (Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster) might seem impossible without an agent, [Read More]
» Penny Candy Books: Now Accepting Manuscript Submissions
Penny Candy Books is a publishing company focused on children’s picture books that was founded in 2015 by two poets who met in graduate school. [Read More]
Penguin Young Readers Announces Imprint for Diverse Books
Penguin Young Readers has announced the launch of a new imprint, called Kokila, that will focus on diverse books for children and young adults. According [Read More]
Hearst will sell its Rodale book division to Penguin Random House
Hearst said Tuesday it will flip its recently acquired Rodale book division to Penguin Random House. The deal puts under one publisher Al Gore’s “Inconvenient [Read More]