Publishing

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Book Publishing: Death or Rebirth?

Tom Matlack | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Literary Agents, Book Publishing, Bookstores, Social Media, Don King, Publishing, Death of Publishing, Books, Barnes and Noble, Matt Weiner, Mad Men, The Good Men Project, Media News

Of all these industries facing revolution, the book folks are the most arrogant. They just don't get it. It's time for the old book food chain to develop a holistic approach to something new.

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Julie & Julia: When the World Writes You Back

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 09.08.2009 | Entertainment

No matter what twists we see in Publishing 2.0, a love story running through Julie & Julia is that sometimes, after the solitary act of writing, the world writes you back.

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Authors May Have To Meet Deadlines As Publishing Suffers Through Downturn

New York Observer | Leon Neyfakh | Posted 09.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Publishing, Books, Media News

But as book sales fall and publishing houses look for ways to cut costs, many literary agents are growing increasingly worried that publishers looking...

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Piracy vs. Availability: A Parable

Hugh McGuire | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Rights, Ondemand, Copyright, Books, Streaming, Drm, Media, Downloading, Movies, Internet, Publishing, Illegal, Video, Piracy, Digital, Torrents, Iannucci, Humour, Politics, Satire, Download, Media News

If as providers of content, give me what I want, when I want it, at a reasonable price, I'll be happy to pay for it. If not, I'll be compelled -- when I really want something -- to find other ways to get it.

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What Is Work? Promoting Authors and Books in New Ways

Sharon Glassman | Posted 08.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Manhattan, Russ Marshalek, Atlanta, Books, Twitter, Jobs, Passion, New York City, Happiness, Happiness Tips, Blogs, Authors, Publishing, Work, Careers, New Media, Publicity, Entertainment News

In this post, we'll look at another way that individuals of passion are creating careers for themselves.

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Is BusinessWeek Worth $1?

Alan M. Webber | Posted 08.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Publishing, Business Week, Media, Print Media, Print Journalism, BusinessWeek Sale, Businessweek, Media News

BW needs to create a franchise. Because it's not print that's dead, or even print about business that's dead. It's old and tired franchises that are dead, franchises that have run out of gas, purpose and energy.

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Why I'm Releasing My Novel on Twitter

Matt Stewart | Posted 08.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Scribd, Matthew Stewart, Tweet, Author, France, Writer, Twitter, Read, Bastille Day, Amazon, Novel, Social Media, Tech, Publishing, Release, Released, Kindle, Thefrenchrev, Publish, Ebook, Technology, Book, San Francisco, Matt Stewart, Media News

Tweeting my novel provides the ultimate in easy sampling and information triage before purchase, the equivalent of watching a clip of a TV show before deciding to order the season on Netflix.

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How Abraham Lincoln's "Hot Letters" Can Keep You From Going All Alice Hoffman

David Quigg | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Publishing, Twitter, Civil War, Boston Globe, Doris Kearns Goodwin, George Meade, Team of Rivals, Roberta Silman, Writing, Books, Abraham Lincoln, E-Mail, Alice Hoffman, Novelists, Critics, Anger Management, Media News

We all have our limits. Abraham Lincoln's limit is that he left behind no wise counsel for the man who finds himself garmentless at 30,000 feet. But he did leave something for the Twitterers.

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You Wanna Rebel? Read a Book

Ward Sutton | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Jonas Brothers, Publishing, Book Publishing, Music, Books, Media News

As we are bombarded with texts, twitters, and emails, it is perhaps the most rebellious thing we can do to consciously tune all that out and instead focus on a book.

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Getting Over Shame for Father's Day

Bob Morris | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Shame, Publishing, Father's Day, Seniors, Books, Parents, Living News

When I stopped by a bookstore outside of Santa Barbara this time last year, the shelves had many titles of interest, except one -- mine. I was too crippled by my own dignity to do anything at all.

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Thanks The New Republic!

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Print Media, Consumerism, Publishing, Print Journalism, Publishing Industry, Death of Print, The New Republic, Consumer Spending, The-New-Republic, Media News

I am grateful to The New Republic for providing the space for long essays on complex subjects.

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Books, Books and More Books, or Tote That Bookbag

David Finkle | Posted 07.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Toni Morrison, BookExpo America, Publishing Houses, Publishing, Mavis Gallant, Books, Literature, Joan Wickersham, Living News

I plucked and pillaged a number of books but I consumed the Hershey kisses, apples and candy canes on the spot.

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The 10 Best Online Ads Of The Year

Nicholas Carlson | Posted 06.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Design, Publishing, Media, Technology, Advertising, Online, Media News

Besides the nearly infinite amount of inventory out there, probably the biggest problem with online advertising is that usually, the creative sucks.

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What's an Unpublished Writer to Do?

Carol Hoenig | Posted 06.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Ernest Hemingway, Publishing, Authors Gude, Jason A. Spencer Edwards, Henry David Thoreau, Oprah, JASP Publishing, New York Times, Self-Published, Bernard Lachance, Without Grace, Deepak Chopra, Jiggy, Media News

If an author who cannot acquire a traditional publishing deal decides to invest in their writing career by self-publishing instead of giving up, let's celebrate their passion and entrepreneurship.

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The Moth: A Social Refuge From Social Media

Jill Priluck | Posted 06.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Social Media, Publishing, Twitter, Facebook, Salman Rushdie, New York City, Media News

Unlike the sometimes raucous, awkward web-o-sphere that is morphing into a brand-centric wonderland, the Moth wasn't noisy. It was pleasant to the ear. It still is.

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Book Publishers Set Green Goals

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Publishing, Books, Waste, Green Business, Pollution, Paper, Reducing Waste, Green News

NEW YORK — The publishing industry has been fitted for 20-20-20 vision. The Book Industry Environmental Council, a coalition of publishers, boo...

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How to Save Lit Mags

Caleb Das | Posted 05.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Globe and Mail, Publishing, Publishing Industry, Creative Writing, Lit Mags, Literary Magazines, Media News

Literary sites shouldn't behave as if they are some kind of living archive.

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Technology, Not War, Is the Solution to Publishing

Penny Herscher | Posted 05.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Non-Profit Foundations, Death of Newspapers, Newspapers, Publishing, Search Engines, Newspaper Industry, Print Media, Print Journalism, Death of Print, News, Online News, Media News

The global publishing giants have declared war on the new technology generation of content distributors -- but they have lost sight of what consumers value and how they want to get to the value.

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Conscious Choice Publications: the Latest Victims of Changing Media Landscape

Charles Shaw | Posted 05.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Publishing, Conscious Choice, Whole Life Times, Gaiam, Print, Common Ground, Green, Lohas, Corporate, Media, Media News

At the risk of appearing to engage in a little schadenfreude, the truth of the matter is that I was not at all surprised at CE Media's demise. Yet I was quite saddened.

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More Authors Turn To Web And Print-On-Demand Publishing

CNN | Elham Khatami | Posted 05.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Print on Demand Publishing, Publishing, Web Publishing, Media News

When she was turned down by several traditional publishing houses, Genova decided to follow a different route: self-publishing via Web-based companie...

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Publishing Is Dead [Part 2]: Can We Make It About Writers For A Change?

Richard Laermer | Posted 05.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Publishing, Writers, Tolstoy, Vanity Press, Death of Publishing, Laermer.com, Trendspotting, Book Business, Reading, Literature, Books, Media News

Write your masterpiece, put it on Amazon or in the back of your van, take it to the willing with spare cash at a state fair. If it's good it'll sell. You just got to make them open it up.

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The Shelf Talker: The War to Settle the Score (and the Future of Book Publishing)

Kevin Smokler | Posted 04.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Authors, Ypulse, Publishing, Twitter, Zittrain, Anastasia-Goodstein, Steven-Johnson, Rachel-Kramer-Bussel, Technology, Sxsw, Books, Media News

TST was the third question-asker and inquired (plainly, we thought) why publishers act with suspicion and fear towards the very technologies and people that seek to cheerlead for their books.

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The Long Tale of Publishing: One Sale at a Time

Derek Beres | Posted 04.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Book Publishing, Publishing, Publishing Industry, Kindle, Self-Publishing, Amazon Kindle, Self-Published, Media News

I can only hope that independent booksellers come around and support the efforts of the too often romanticized "indie" author who uses the latest technologies in their craft, one sale at a time.

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Book Sales Rise In Europe Amid Recession

New York Times | Eric Pfanner | Posted 04.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Book Sales Europe, Publishing, Book Sales, Books, Media News

After a dip in the fall, the number of books sold in France rose 2 percent in December from a year earlier and 2.4 percent in January, according to Li...

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Really Simple Ways To Save, So That You Can Enjoy My Luxury Service Journalism

Adam Baer | Posted 03.15.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Adventure, Australia, Travel, Media, Hugh Jackman, Journalism, Amazon.com, Amazon, Luxury, Blu-Ray, McDonald's, Technology, Beverly Hills, Magazines, Bentley, Mark Jacobs, Writing, Home Theater, Recession, Mad Men, Hotels, Publishing, Itunes, Organic Food, Health, Craigslist, Annie Hall, Food, Hdtv, iPod Dock, Netflix, Diddy, Comedy News