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Stephen King’s latest book will not go digital — for now

Susan Lulgjuraj — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:11:00 +0000

Whenever Stephen King releases a novel, readers line up to grab his latest book. But those looking to download the digital version of Joyland might never get the option. King will not release Joyland as an e-book when it comes out on June 4, according to the Wall Street Journal. King, an e-book pioneer, held [...]

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From the author of Fifty Shades, a how-to writing guide

Dan Eldridge — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:22:05 +0000

It sounds suspiciously like a story from The Onion: ‘Fifty Shades’ author to publish writing guide. But nope—it’s actually a real-life AP wire story that appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer‘s website this morning. Scheduled to be published on May 1 by Random House’s Vintage imprint, Fifty Shades of Grey: Inner Goddess (A Journal) will be a combination of author E.L. [...]

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Weekend Reading Roundup — Is book discovery only a problem for publishers?

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:14:13 +0000

Here’s the problem with publishers’ book discovery problem (Paid Content) Why Stephen King was wrong to publish ‘Guns’ as a Kindle Single (NY Daily News) Amazon to Investigate Claims of Worker Intimidation at German Centers (New York Times) Publishing is tough these days — unless you’re in nautical almanacs, apparently (The Guardian) Kindle Daily Deals: ‘Beautiful Creatures’ books [...]

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Pay to Browse: Why it will never work for bookstores

Joanna Cabot — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:00:00 +0000

TeleRead posted earlier about an idea that was floated by Victoria Barnsley, a HarperCollins CEO, during a recent NPR interview: the idea of charging people for the privilege of browsing in bookstores. The idea was that they’d pay to browse, and then go home and order online from the vendor of their choosing. The analogy [...]

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A Nook Owner Tests the Kindle Platform; How HuffPo Is Making Money Off Comments

Aggregated Content — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:00:29 +0000

By Brian Howard and James Sturdivant I own a Nook Simple Touch. Maybe it’s because I root for underdogs or maybe it’s because I chafe at platform lock-in and proprietary file formats, but I’ve been quite happy with life on the B&N ebook platform. Then, on Friday, Amazon announced its Stephen King Kindle Single exclusive, [...]

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Stephen King attacks the NRA in a new Kindle Single

Aggregated Content — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:31:21 +0000

Amazon.com today announced that the best-selling and iconic author Stephen King has published a personal essay—“Guns”—available exclusively in the Kindle Store as a Kindle Single. This essay highlights one of the compelling features of Kindle Singles—they allow top authors to publish their works quickly. “Guns” is available now, exclusively in the Kindle Singles Store (www.amazon.com/kindlesingles) for [...]

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Stephen King Turns Short Story Into a Free Webcomic

Aggregated Content — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:45:16 +0000

Prior to becoming a household name, Stephen King did time as a high school English teacher and a laborer in an industrial laundry. These days, he could insulate his lovely Victorian home with crisp hundreds if such were his whim. Yet it seems he hasn’t forgotten what it’s like to watch every penny, wishing there was [...]

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Publisher offers Stephen King short story free to Klout influencers

Chris Meadows — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 01:58:14 +0000

Here’s an intriguing experiment in e-publishing promotion. Scribner is going to release the new Stephen King short story “Mile 81” free to select members of the online-social-influence-ranking site Klout, a week before it goes on sale as an e-book single for $2.99. Apparently the idea builds on the marketing notion of identifying important trendsetters and [...]

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Quick Note: Stephen King makes $80K for e-novella “Ur”

Paul Biba — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:10:11 +0000

According to the Wall Street Journal, King made $80K for his novella “UR” written exclusively for Amazon. King says: I didn’t do “Ur” for money. I did it because it was interesting. I’m fairly prolific. It took three days, and I’ve made about $80,000. You can’t get that for short fiction from Playboy or anybody [...]

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Seth Godin turns his back on traditional book publishing—but will that work for anyone? Actually, it just might.

Chris Meadows — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:34:22 +0000

Galleycat has a tidbit from a forthcoming Mediabistro feature on marketing guru Seth Godin: Godin has pledged never again to publish books via traditional publishers. Godin said, in part: I like the people, but I can’t abide the long wait, the filters, the big push at launch, the nudging to get people to go to [...]

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The screw you ebook deal

Rich Adin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:25:47 +0000

Every week it seems something new is happening in eBookland to set the ebook cause back a decade or two. Always at the forefront of the reversal of fortune is greed. This week’s menace to eBookland is literary agent Andrew Wylie and his new publishing venture Odyssey. Wylie could have summed up his actions in [...]

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The downside of authorial community-building

Chris Meadows — Tue, 18 May 2010 12:15:00 +0000

For an author to “build a community” with his readers has become a popular catch phrase in recent times. In particular, Richard Nash has talked at length about how community-based publishing is the main purpose of his new venture, Cursor. When you have a close relationship with your readers, the thinking goes, they are much [...]

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