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Canadian Writers’ Union to Consider Self-Published Authors

Susan Lulgjuraj — Sun, 12 May 2013 16:01:35 +0000

As self-publishers gain legitimacy, the Writers’ Union of Canada is considering membership for the indie authors. The story was first reported on CBC (and linked to on The Passive Voice). The union represents more than 1,900 authors in Canada. The voting will take place at the end of the month in Ottawa. “I think it’s [...]

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The Rise of the Fundraiser Book

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:16:03 +0000

Two stories crossed my inbox this morning on the rise of the fudnraiser book. The first was a review about an anthology called Orange Karen that was conceived as a fundraiser for author Karen DeLabar, who is recovering from a battle with toxic shock syndrome. Fellow authors, both amateur and professional, contributed to the book, [...]

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Scott Turow and the Publishing Marketplace

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:00:34 +0000

I’ve seen at least four stories today on the Scott Turow editorial in this week’s New York Times (for example, here and here). Turow’s editorial was a mishmash of all sorts of trending stories, offering his comments on used books, libraries, the Kirtsaeng decision, Amazon, and who knows what else. He has been derided, and rightly [...]

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Famed Film Critic Roger Ebert Dies at 70

Susan Lulgjuraj — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 23:19:43 +0000

Robert Ebert was my first and last source for movies and writing. The iconic film critic died Thursday at 70 years old, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. More than 10 years ago, movies were one of my main joys. With my film passion came the need to write. So I created a website for my [...]

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How to use Evernote as an authors’ tool

Juli Monroe — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 01:25:01 +0000

Joanna Cabot has been writing about Evernote and her newfound love of it recently, and I thought it was time to share my thoughts about the usefulness of Evernote as a tool for authors. I love Evernote so much that I’m glad I wasn’t an author before it existed. What are some of the challenges [...]

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Happy Birthday to the King of the Beats!

Dan Eldridge — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:40:11 +0000

Yes, I was male suburban cliché: Like thousands of other disaffected middle-class white kids before me (and many more after, I’m sure), I discovered Jack Kerouac’s On the Road in high school—I’m proud to say I still own the very same copy I picked up at a long-since shuttered Borders Books in McMurray, Penna. It [...]

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Storylane Will Join Forces with Facebook

Aggregated Content — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 02:19:31 +0000

By Christina Jones Storylane, the personal blogging platform and social space, just announced it’s joining forces with Facebook. The latest News Feed update wasn’t enough to show how much the social networking giant understands the value of visual content. “This is an exciting opportunity,” said Jonathan Gheller, Storylane’s CEO. “Facebook’s mission of connecting the world has always [...]

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What was the first book ever written with a word processor?

Dan Eldridge — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:14:33 +0000

I’ve always been a sucker for stories about the history of American pop culture. So when TeleRead founder David Rothman sent me an email last weekend with a subject line that read, “This Was the First Word Processor Ever Used By a Novelist. It Weighed 200 Pounds and Had to Be Brought in Though the [...]

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More reviewers say ‘yes’ to indie authors today, but getting noticed is still an uphill climb

Susan Lulgjuraj — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:10:34 +0000

Allen Schatz published his first book two years ago. After things didn’t work out with an agent, he went the self-publishing route and knew he had to market on his own, which meant contacting reviewers. Some said yes, many said no. But Schatz noticed a change in the business around this time and self-publishing didn’t [...]

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Joanna Cabot’s Best of 2012: Stories you may have missed

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:23:17 +0000

TeleRead’s Toronto-based senior writer Joanna Cabot, currently our most prolific blogger by a long shot, wrote over 100 articles for this site in 2012. (And that’s not counting her daily Morning Roundups.) What were some of her best-loved and most popular stories of the year? For your holiday reading pleasure, here are a few you may enjoy [...]

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Confessions of a first-time WriMo

Aggregated Content — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 22:48:57 +0000

By Kara Robart | for Book Business As an intern here at NAPCO (the parent company of Book Business and Publishing Executive), I am constantly exposed to new, exciting things happening in the publishing industry. Two weeks ago, I wrote an article celebrating this year’s kickoff of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). In that article, I challenged all you publishers to one [...]

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What we can learn from the troubles of Martha Stewart

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:54:51 +0000

I’ve seen reporting pretty much everywhere about the troubles facing Martha Stewart and her company these days. She’s laying off staff and folding magazines, she’s reporting a 17 percent decline in revenues and she’s taking for herself the lion’s share of her company’s earnings. But is this just about money management and changing media directions, [...]

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Are you drowning in e-books? Here’s a solution.

Dan Eldridge — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 21:04:52 +0000

Those of you who work professionally in the publishing biz have probably been reading, hearing and talking about the art and science of ‘e-book discovery’ for years now; it’s been a slowing growing industry trend for as long as I can remember. But unless I’ve suddenly been stricken with a nasty case of Baader-Meinhof Syndrome, the so-called [...]

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TeleRead Senior Writer Chris Meadows steps down

Chris Meadows — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 01:07:10 +0000

Well, it’s been fun, but I’ve just made my last post to TeleRead as a regular contributor. Starting tomorrow, I’m moving to The Digital Reader, to write for my friend Nate Hoffelder. It’s important to note that there are no hard feelings between me and NAPCO or new editor-in-chief Dan Eldridge, who I’m confident will [...]

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Writer Ewan Morrison decries social media promotion for e-books, failure of ACTA passage

Chris Meadows — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:19:58 +0000

I had never heard of this Ewan Morrison person before blogging that story quoting him the other day, but all of a sudden it seems like he’s coming out of the woodwork everywhere. I saw a mention on the E-Book Community Mailing List of a column by him on The Guardian. It says it’s third [...]

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