Will the Internet Kill Magazines?
I’ve been posting a lot about e-publishing lately, from what it’s like to work with an e-publisher to an in-depth interview with a new breed of literary agent that is focusing specifically on authors...
View ArticleBorders Files For Bankruptcy…But Don’t Worry About Kobo!
Borders finally filed for Chapter 11. Here’s the link from PW: Borders I don’t think anyone is majorly surprised by this. Actually, I don’t think anyone would be majorly surprised at anything that...
View ArticleMore Changes in Publishing…
I saw this on facebook and wanted to share. Interesting how sometimes things change so fast. http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20110401/FREE/110409990 Amazon.com pushes into book publishingThe...
View ArticleSelf-Publishing: Another Well Known Romance Author Going Rogue
I just read an interesting blog post where another fairly well known romance author is going to start self-publishing her own books. She walked away from a nice book deal, with a well known romance...
View ArticleLiterary Agencies Offering Other "Services" Now…
This particular post on the Dystel & Goderich blog explains what their agency is doing by offering new services. In this post, and the one below it, they explain it far better than I can explain...
View ArticleAre Literary Agents Going Country?
I’ve been reading a lot about literary agents “thinking” about changing things around. Some are posting on blogs they are coming up with new ideas with regard to self-publishing, and it’s all top...
View ArticleNostalgia From 2006 About E-books
I remember reading articles just like this five years ago. And five years before that I was at a dinner party with an art director from Random House who lives in Bucks County and he was talking about...
View ArticlePublished Author Self-Publishes…An Experiment?
This is interesting on many different levels. But the main focus for me was how I think this author isn’t totally getting the concept of digital books…and the people who read them. I get the feeling...
View ArticleJonathan Franzen Claims E-Books "May" Be Bad for Society
First, the article to which I’m linking sounds as though it almost wants Mr. Franzen to hate e-books. But after reading his comments in full I didn’t walk away with that impression. His comments and...
View ArticleWhy an Agent Might Reject You and Why a Publisher Might Not…
I read an interesting post at literary agent Janet Reid’s blog earlier this evening. It gets into why she, as an agent, has to reject people for various reasons, one of them being “I can’t sell this.”...
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