Lulu’s new ePub conversion service is not a bargain
Sighted via Twitter from Mariah Jovan: Lulu now offers conversion of manuscripts into ePub format in addition to its other electronic offerings. While more support for ePub is certainly a...
Greg Stolze writes reader-funded short fiction
I received a Facebook message from writer Greg Stolze today extolling his latest project. Stolze, probably best known for his work on role-playing games including Unknown Armies and NEMESIS, has...
Boulder Book Store embraces new ‘microdistribution’ model
From the Nieman Lab comes a story of a bookstore in Boulder, Colorado that is trying a new distribution model for local authors. In addition to the usual selection of...
The real source of the self-publishing stigma
Is the title of an article at Publetariat. According to the author the source of the stigma doesn't come from agents, publishers, bookstores, reviewers or readers.
The stigma, the author says,...
Quick Notes: iPad, print-on-demand, books as artifacts
Cindy Peng at Publishing Trends asks what the iPad can do for “paginated media.” (That’s an interesting thing to call books and magazines, I guess.) She quotes an analyst from...
Eoin Purcell organizes The One Stop Self Publishing Conference
On Saturday, October 16, at the Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel in Dublin, Eoin Purcell and Vanessa O'Loughlin will be presenting this conference. The website says: This conference is designed to provide...
Richard Nash discusses ‘Publishing 2.0’
A couple of weeks ago, I saw a post on O’Reilly’s Tools of Change website that I wanted to cover, but it was so long that I never actually got...
Quick Notes: France, Apple, vanity press
Publishing Perspectives reports that French readers seem to think that brick and mortar bookstores are more expensive than on-line purchasing "when, in reality, book prices are supposed to be the...
Scribd introduces send-to-device button; device-specific apps on the horizon
A couple of weeks ago, Paul reported on self-e-publishing site Scribd’s plans to add direct mobile download capability. CNet reports that Scribd has now done so: Scribd-hosted documents can...
Worlds Apart and why books need editors
Thirteen months ago I reviewed a self-published e-book series called Worlds Apart. Everything I said in that review remains true (go ahead and read it—I’ll wait right here!). I just...