For the first time in a long time, Industry News features as many writing links as publishing-industry links. This content equality won’t last, so let’s enjoy it while we can. Pick and choose the posts that interest you, or read everything. WRITING If you’ve hit a snag in your writing, there are scores of how-to books and blog posts [...]
This week’s Industry News opens with a focus on publishing and finishes with writing-related links. Read everything or pick and choose. PUBLISHING Social-media expert Kristen Lamb takes aim at traditional publishing with a blog post entitled Big Six Publishing Is Dead, Welcome the Massive Three. Not everyone is taking up arms against legacy publishing. Remember the deals [...]
Industry News comes to you a day early and leads with links to news stories, blog posts, and other commentary regarding the big event of this week: the lawsuit filed in New York district court by the Department of Justice charging that Apple and five publishers conspired to raise the retail prices of e-books. Simon [...]
First, up, Meg Wolitzer’s essay bemoaning the second-shelf status of literary fiction by and about women is a must-read for members of RWA’s Women’s Fiction Chapter. Thanks to Pamela Morsi for the link. The information spigots opened all the way this past week. To better organize the data, I’ve separated this column into categories. Read everything or [...]
To market, to market, To sell a new book Authors write ad copy, send out arcs for reviews, and embark on blog tours, but it’s tough to know which marketing efforts translate into book sales. Today, Industry News opens with links to articles and blog posts about marketing. Self-published author Rachel Abbott tells what she [...]
Author/publisher Bob Mayer of Who Dares Wins Publishing recently pronounced traditional publishing dead. Of some comfort is the fact he expects a phoenix-like rebirth. “When I say die, I mean the ‘traditional’ part of traditional publishing. It will evolve into something new.” The self-publishing boom means more new books are competing for readers’ attention. Literary [...]
“We need to be stronger, faster, and smarter. We must be better trained than any writer in human history,” says social-media expert Kristen Lamb. Keep the “stronger, faster, and smarter” mantra in mind as you read this week’s edition of Industry News. Publishing is changing, and writers must adapt. The Department of Justice’s threat to sue [...]
A seminar on the transition from traditional to self-publishing attracted a standing-room only crowd at the recent San Francisco Writers Conference. In a guest column for Writer’s Digest‘s Chuck Sambuchino, Joan Swan reports on the career trajectories of the seminar’s panelists: Bella Andre, Elizabeth Jennings, and RWA-WF’s own Barbara Freethy. Amazon has removed from its [...]
Once again, Industry News is chock-full of conflict. Happily, it also brings glad tidings. Let’s start with glad. If Cinderella can slip her foot into a glass slipper and be transformed into a princess, can’t author Patricia O’Brien adopt a pseudonym to sell her latest historical novel–then watch it go into a second printing? The New [...]
Hot! Novelists, Inc, a writing group for those published in popular fiction, has made A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE NEW WORLD OF PUBLISHING available to non-members at no charge via download here. This 166-page compilation features information about social media, e-publishing, promotion, and more from Ninc’s late-2011 conference in St. Petersburg, Florida. Agent Jenny Bent, [...]