Future of Publishing

Man's Attention at Attention

Anthony Zuiker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Instead of just writing a novel, I decided to pair it with a motion picture and offer a social networking site at the same price as a traditional book.

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CES 2010: Why Were There No Publishers at CES?

Jason Pinter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Why were there no book publishers at CES? Not a single purveyor of content, other than a handful of authors. But no publishers. Nobody talking about what their company was doing in the realm of e-publishing.

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Taking Back the Cookbook Business: What Canal House Cooking Really Means

Elissa Altman | Posted 05.25.2011

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I first heard about Canal House through the grapevine, which is a pretty tightly plaited bit of business in the food world.

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UK Chain Waterstone's Is Killing Bookselling

The Guardian | Stuart Jeffries | Posted 05.25.2011

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"They simply treat books as a commodity," says Nicholas Spice, publisher of the London Review of Books, and one of the chain's sternest critics. "Ther...

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Do Authors Still Need Publishers?

Mark Coker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Just as many entrepreneurs no longer need venture capitalists to launch their companies, authors no longer need publishers to publish.

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McSweeney's No. 33 Is A Good, Old-Fashioned Newspaper

The New York Times | Bruce Weber | Posted 05.25.2011

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"People have been saying the short story is dying for a lot longer than they've been saying newspapers are dying," Jordan Bass, managing editor of the...

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The Future of Publishing Isn't Rocket Science (It's Sustainability)

Makenna Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Publishing is not a dying business; it's a changing business. It's a business going through literary puberty, fiscal adolescence, and management hell. It's a business that needs to grow up, in other words.

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The Publishers Run into Sharp Elbows

William Petrocelli | Posted 05.25.2011

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Many familiar independent booksellers are gone, and they've been replaced by big-box retailers with far sharper elbows. At the moment, they -- not the publishers -- appear to be controlling the book business.

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Get Famous Fast

Denise Brodey | Posted 05.25.2011

You can mourn the death of publishing or you can start bushwhacking a new book trail. These women certainly have.

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Transcend and Include: Fictionaut and the Future of the Literary Magazine

Jurgen Fauth | Posted 05.25.2011

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It may be more productive to consider the changes roiling the publishing industry evolutionary rather than revolutionary.

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Why Publishers are Like Venture Capitalists

Mark Coker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Word Games, Book Publishing, Allegory, Angel Investors, Books, Future of Publishing, Venture Capital, Silicon Valley, Books News

I invite you to play the word game. Copy and paste this post into a word processor. Replace "entrepreneurs" with "authors," and "startups" with "books." Now read it again!

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10 Things Bookstores Need to Do to Help Themselves

Jason Pinter | Posted 05.25.2011

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I unabashedly love bookstores. But they need to evolve, to change some habits that have long since become obsolete.

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Dancing with Shiva: Aligning Publishers' Interests With Those of Writers and Readers

Rob Asghar | Posted 05.25.2011

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The good news is that, if writers with lower profiles than Kim Kardashian feel they have a book of quality that can stand on its own, they no longer have to file the manuscript away in a drawer.

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No One Warned the Dinosaurs. Will Anyone Warn the Publishers?

William Petrocelli | Posted 05.25.2011

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The major publishers are in a difficult position: they are service companies that function like manufacturing companies -- 20th century businesses in a 21st century economy.

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Amazon Sucks Up To Literary Agents

Crain's New York Business | Matthew Flamm | Posted 05.25.2011

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Amazon.com has gone on a charm offensive. The online retailing giant flew out a dozen of New York's top literary agents last week for a day of meetin...

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Book Wars: eReaders And Discounting

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yesterday, Barnes & Noble unveiled their new eReader, the Nook. The sleek new model is the latest in a series of new eReaders popping up recently to c...

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Why E-Books are Hot and Getting Hotter

Mark Coker | Posted 05.25.2011

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2009 will go down in history as the year e-books went mainstream.

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Why the Digital Revolution is Missing the Big Picture

Jason Pinter | Posted 05.25.2011

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By marketing the Kindle to me -- i.e. 'adults' who already read regularly -- publishing is merely doubling down on the biggest problem facing the industry: not enough people read books.

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Literary Agent Urges Publishers To Hold Off On eBook Editions

E-Reads | Richard Curtis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Literary agent Nat Sobel, one of the most respected figures in his field, has issued an appeal to book industry leaders urging them to resist the temp...

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Moving the Needle

Nathan Bransford | Posted 05.25.2011

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Editors want to take authors to the next level or make a splash with a debut. Publishers want to gain traction with new electronic formats. Sales and marketing teams want to make a splash. Everyone is desperate for a hit.

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Going "Indie": Rebranding the New Wave of Authors

Rob Asghar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Stop calling yourself a self-published author. You are an independent author, and you wrote an independently published book, not a self-published book.

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