If there’s one thing readers love it’s extra reading apps on their iOS and Android devices. A few years ago there were about a dozen – apps for long-form writing, apps for books, apps that let publishers monetize (not really) ...
Self-publishing may be the way to go.
The Tribune Publishing Co. says it has rejected Gannett's more than $388 million bid to buy the business.
The Supreme Court's recent decision to deny review of the Authors Guild v. Google, Inc. ruling was a blow not just to the suit's plaintiffs in the book industry but to all of us in the business of writing and publishing content. Here's why: The low...
LinkedIn isn’t your run-of-the-mill social network. Whereas on the Facebooks and Twitters of the world you’re more likely to come across cat GIFs and hate-filled political screeds, LinkedIn has always focused squarely on creating an atmosphere wh...
More changes at publishing platform Medium: Evan Hansen, who’s been overseeing the company’s editorial strategy, is departing. Hansen joined Medium three years ago. (He was previously editor in chief at Wired.com.) His role has bee...
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We've been to the South Dakota Festival of Books twice so far, and we have now discovered two amazing writers who came to the festival without a book deal. Both now have books about to come out. Our conclusion is that there are lots of great writers ...
A new math journal challenges the traditional publishing model. Will others follow?
The Kindle Oasis features a super-thin design, a bright screen, and a very high price tag
I had the great honor of keynoting the Story Circle Network Conference in Austin earlier this month, which gave me a unique opportunity to speak about book publishing in front of a women-only audience. It's not that I've shied away in the past from s...
Marketers have a complicated time of it. They have to combine user generated content with branded content in a way that doesn’t leave the brand looking utterly foolish. StoryStream has a platform for figuring this out, and has now raised a $2.6...
Company pays authors based on how much of their books have been read, but fraudsters are taking advantage - and it’s not Amazon that suffersAuthors are earning less from Amazon’s new pay-per-page model than they should be, thanks to a rash of sca...
Top-end e-reader is a cut above the rest, rethinking the Kindle design and experience, cutting 20% weight and costing a pretty penny in the processAmazon’s latest high-end Kindle breaks with the mould of the basic e-reading experience to become a l...
I took a long time to get on board with the whole Kindle thing but once I did, I was all in. Yet I love my neighborhood bookstore (they serve wine!) and I try to patronize them as much as possible. It only recently occurred to me, as I sat there re...
Gannett made the offer directly to Tribune Publishing’s shareholders, saying the publisher was unwilling to engage in discussions about a takeover.
By Allison Tyler | Off the Shelf It's been 400 years since William Shakespeare shuffled off his mortal coil on April 23, 1616. To honor the Bard of Avon, we've compiled a list of some of the greatest novels influenced by his vast endowment of words....
NEW YORK (AP) — Newspaper publisher Gannett said Monday that it wants to buy rival Tribune Publishing for more than $388 million, in a deal that would give the owner of USA Today control of the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and several oth...
Cross-posted from The Guardian. In recent years, African writers have gained prominence on the world stage; some have won prestigious prizes, while others have signed lucrative book deals and sold to multiple markets. However, Africans are not promi...
India’s got a new publisher in town. It’s name is Juggernaut, a word the dictionary defines as an “large, powerful force” - a word hailing from Jaganath, the Hindu god Vishnu, considered the powerful “Lord of the Universe”. And with that ...
Acer hit the stage a small event in the shadow of Manhattan’s One World Trade to show off some notebooks, notebooks and also some notebooks. Oh, and one more thing: notebooks, notebooks, and notebooks (also there were some notebooks). The...
A Supreme Court order issued today closes the book on (or perhaps merely ends this chapter of) more than a decade of legal warfare between Google and the Authors Guild over the legality of the former’s scanning without permission of milli...
Publishing, whether we are paid for it or not, is always an act of sharing. I have a story, and I'd like to share it with other people. It is not accurate to say I am giving the story away. It is not as if the story is a single copy of a book and I a...
Your guide to Amazon's diverse e-reader lineup
The Kindle Voyage is Amazon's lightest and thinnest e-reader ever.
True to earlier reports, Amazon’s Kindle Oasis is the smallest and lightest Kindle yet and comes with a handle for gripping. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos teased an “all-new, top of the line” Kindle last week and Chinese site Tmal...
This Post originally appeared on the blog ScreenCraft. ScreenCraft is dedicated to helping screenwriters and filmmakers succeed through educational events, screenwriting competitions and the annual ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship program, conn...
Becoming an author is a long and wending road for many. It's challenging just to write a book -- for reasons of time constraints, raging inner critics, the act of learning craft. The journey to publication is a whole other struggle, often accompanied...
Have you ever Googled "tips to freelance"? You'll receive a slew of search results that jump from topic to topic, and contradict themselves. I've found this to be a huge dilemma while trying to kickstart my own freelance efforts doing product desig...
The movie ends, the credits scroll through and finally -- after a captivating two hours, it says "Adapted from the book, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green." "Am I going to watch that say Katie Kiaunis one day?" my dad asks, knowing how badly I wa...
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