Self-Publishing

Some alarming numbers about the falling number of full-time career writers in the UK, and the falling incomes of writers of all kinds, have emerged courtesy of the Authors’ Licensing &...

I’ve posted a number of stories over the last few days about increasing consumer disillusionment (including my own) with publishers and their e-book strategies. On the Booku blog “The Smell of...

From the O'Reilly site: Presented by: Mark Coker, Chad Jennings, Pete Nikolai, Bob Young Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free The lines between traditional and self-publishing is blurring. In fact, some traditional publishers are launching their own self-publishing imprints....

A blogger named Max Florschutz ponders "the idea that customers aren’t holding an e-book to be of similar value" and wondering why that was. Chris Meadows ably summarizes a few of Mr. Florshutz's...

Following Susan Lulgjuraj's earlier coverage of the work of the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), the prominent London-headquartered "nonprofit, professional association for self-publishing writers" is now taking an even more active role on behalf...

Today is the day that WikiLeaks—despite reportedly being under a distributed denial of service attack—sprang its biggest leak ever, releasing hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and airing global diplomatic laundry...

Horror writers are made of stern stuff, you'd think. But apparently they find online bullying as creepy as anyone. The Horror Writers Association (HWA) (www.horror.org) has just added its voice to...

This news is about a month old, but somehow I managed to miss seeing it when it came out. Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post had a story about an “industry of ‘Amazon...

Back in October Peter Ibrahim sent me an email about his new site - Novelled, which had not yet gone live. I said I'd mention it when it hit the...

We all know how it used to be. Self-publishing was vanity publishing. The only operations out there that would do it for you would charge so much that your book would...