e-publishing
November 22, 2009
- A new electronic book publishing company, Brown Fedora Books, is promising to deliver books that are “rebar tough and built to last.” The list of books is small and selective and all downloads are free. The company website is brownfedorabooks.com. Predictions are calling for over 13 million electronic readers to be in use by the end of 2010. Brown Fedora is prepared to tap into this ...
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November 11, 2009
- Once upon a time in e-publishing, there were the indies. Well, they still exist, and they rock. These people came in and did it right. They turn on a dime, adapting to the freshest voices and subgenres of work available, work that scares the marketing folks in NY to death and back. They offered no advances but much higher royalty rates than the conglomerates did. They created the markets, and the ...
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October 2, 2009
- With the release of my second book with an online publisher, the pressure is on to make more of my promotions. I've received my postcards as hand-outs for an upcoming conference and trade show I'm attending in the next couple months. I've created a newsletter to hand out at the conference with excerpts from my two published books and the synopsis for my third upcoming book. And I've put together ...
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July 13, 2009
- The Wall St. Journal reports today that the independent publisher Sourcebooks is delaying an e-book version of one of its popular new releases due to pricing: “‘It doesn’t make sense for a new book to be valued at $9.99,’ said Dominique Raccah, CEO,” who worries that e-book sales will undercut lucrative hardcover sales.This, of course makes sense for a book that has an initial ...
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June 17, 2009
April 21, 2009
- As the coeditor of an anthology by foreign women in modern Turkey, and an American living abroad in Istanbul, Twitter has been an invaluable tool to bring me closer to the world I work in, and up to speed on my industry. I meet my readers (fellow expats, travelers, writers, and culturati among them) and my publishing world colleagues (agents, authors, editors, publishers) to discuss not only ...
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November 29, 2008
- Woo Hoo! I am thrilled my 1st Red Room blog is one of gushing fun, thanks to NaNoWriMo. I endured the grueling month of November through writer's block, writer's cramp, and write-ins with my dear friend and confidant, Ruby, the red laptop. The 'special offer' page at NaNo led me right to the Red Room. I consider discovering the Red Room to be my own personal NaNo award, with or without a free ...
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June 26, 2008
- The same, but different.That's what an author friend said her publisher wanted for her series. How same is same? How different is different? If I go to a bookstore and browse the Science Fiction shelves, I have totally different expectations of what I'm going to read than if I'm in the Mystery section, or the Romance section. Each has its own 'rules' because readers want some sort ...
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