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Submission Phobia, Legacy of Samuel Greenberg, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Simon & Schuster has created Archway Publishing, a self-publishing service; a copyright law that allows authors to purge thirty-five-year-old publishing contracts will take effect in 2013; Michelle Seaton explains how to get past your submission phobia; and other news.
Digital Digest: Balancing Collaboration and Control
by Adrian Versteegh
November/December 2012
With an increasing number of user-driven publishing platforms cropping up across the digital landscape, many online publishers are trying to strike a balance between collaboration and ediorial control.
John Jeremiah Sullivan Gets Several Massages, Brontë Chapel Robbed, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
In the United Kingdom, thieves robbed Brontë Chapel, where the Brontë sisters were baptized; Arthur Krystal explores the sometimes-heated discussion concerning genre and literary fiction; literary agent Janet Reid offers advice to writers interested in self-publishing.
P. T. Anderson Wants to Adapt Pynchon Novel, E-Book Bundle Huge Success, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Cory Doctorow curated Humble E-book Bundle has garnered $847,000 as of yesterday; AppNewser explains how to publish an e-book using PressBooks; Deenah Vollmer's dispatch from Germany's Frankfurt Book Fair; and other news.
Paul Thomas Anderson Wants to Adapt Thomas Pynchon Novel, E-Book Bundle Huge Success, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Cory Doctorow curated Humble E-book Bundle has garnered $847,000 as of yesterday; AppNewser explains how to publish an e-book using PressBooks; Deenah Vollmer's dispatch from Germany's Frankfurt Book Fair; and other news.
Wendig's Twenty-Five Things Writers Should Know, Johnny Depp's New Imprint, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Actor Johnny Depp is launching a HarperCollins imprint called Infinitum Nihil; Microsoft announced the pricing for its new line of Surface tablets; the battle over the ownership of Franz Kafka's papers has been decided in court; and other news.
The Earnings of Self-Published Authors, University of Missouri Press Is Closing, and More
by Staff
A comprehensive survey of self-published authors reveals surprising findings, today's writers feel less compelled to look to the past, and today is Towel Day.
Decisions, Decisions: Three Different Paths to Publication
by Alethea Black, Céline Keating, Michelle Toth
July/August 2011
Three author friends who took different paths to the publication of their debut books—via commercial press, independent press, and self-publishing outfit—compare notes about everything from working with an editor and choosing a cover to marketing and publicity.
Digital Digest: New Tools Transform Self-Publishing
by Adrian Versteegh
March/April 2012
Thanks to the accessibility of new digital tools offered by booksellers such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble, self-publishing is loosing its stigma and holds new promise for writers venturing out on their own.
The Bard Behind the Bar
Join contributor Robert Hershon for a pint at McSorley's Old Ale House, where poet and head bartender Geoffrey Bartholomew has sold more than five thousand copies of his self-published collection, The McSorley's Poems, without the aid of a high-powered marketing department or special advertising and promotions. Watch via YouTube.