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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Former publicist Marilyn Ducksworth is suing Penguin alleging age discrimination; Evan Hughes examines the murder case that captured the public's imagination and resulted in several books, including Errol Morris's new A Wilderness of Error; Peter Osnos looks at the burgeoning industry of self-publishing; and other news.
Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell was recently mobbed by autograph seekers in China; Amazon has launched the India Kindle Store; designer Craig Mod provides his insight regarding producing books for specific platforms; and other news.
Laura Miller weighs in on the state of literary criticism; BuzzFeed rounded up thirty writing tips from acclaimed authors, including Elmore Leonard, Toni Morrison, and Edgar Allan Poe; the New York Times examines the growing enterprise of self-publishing; and other news.
Nora Ephron, author of the best-selling novel, Heartburn, and Oscar-nominated screenwriter, passed away yesterday in New York City; a consortium of California library systems is working out an agreement with self-publishing platform Smashwords; Bloomberg reports Google will unveil a tablet device at its developers conference in San Francisco; and other news.
Amazon Publishing intends to purchase genre publisher Avalon Books, including its back catalog of three thousand titles; filmmaker John Waters hitchhiked across the United States gathering material for a new book; Moneyball author Michael Lewis recounts to Princeton's class of 2012 how he left a high-paying job to write his first book; and other news.
