“I have never ceased to be grateful for what the independent booksellers of America did in 1989 and, now that I have finally been able to tell the full story of that battle, I’m glad to be able to honor your courage and give you all your due.”
Category: publishing
E-Book Price War Worries Authors
“Bestselling ebooks by authors including Jeffrey Archer and James Herbert are being sold for just 20p from Sony and Amazon’s digital stores, prompting concerns from writers that the “relentless downward pressure on book prices” could lead to industry ruin.”
European E-Book Prices Should Drop After EU Edict
Ebook prices in the UK are set to plummet after the European Commission said that four major publishers and Apple “engaged in a concerted practice” to raise the price of ebooks, and required them to stop.
Bin Laden Book “No Easy Day” Bumps “Shades Of Grey” From Atop Bestseller List (After 20 Weeks)
“It bumped Fifty Shades of Grey from the top spot. USA Today also reports that the print run, which was originally set at 300,000 copies, was increased to 575,000. Interestingly, e-books of the memoir are not selling as well as hardcover copies.”
Agatha Christie Propaganda Essay Rediscovered
“Christie’s essay, in which she extols the virtues of the British detective story, has been published for the first time in the UK as the preface to the reissued 1933 collaborative crime novel Ask a Policeman.”
Amazon Invests in Digital Serial Stories (But There’s a “Third Episode Problem”)
“We have really come across a lot of what we’re calling the third episode problem. It’s a lot easier to write a brilliant first episode of something. In your second episode, you’re continuing that. In the third episode, you realize you have no idea where this is going. It’s a real danger with writing serially.”
Huge Increase In Sales Of Digital Books
“The Publishers Association’s Sales Monitor shows that the total invoiced value of digital fiction books sales reported by participating companies saw a rise of 188% by value in January-June 2012 in comparison to the same period in 2011.”
How Self-Publishing Is Changing Literature
“The mainstream can no longer claim to be the only quality stream. Self-publishing has simply become too attractive an option.”
Salman Rushdie: “Satanic Verses” Would Not Be Published Today
“He suggested that a book that carried criticism of religions would not be published in the same form in this day due to the violent protests that it would provoke.”
Readers Rejoice As Typography Makes The Sound and the Fury Clearer
“Faulkner readily acknowledged the difficulty of what he’d written. In fact, he himself first proposed using different-colored inks as a way to make Benjy’s section more accessible, with distinct shades assigned to its crisscrossed time-settings.”