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The disruption of the publishing industry has sparked a rise in so-called experts coming out of the woodwork offering services at various points of the publishing pipeline. To a first-time author seeking a route to publication, with no previous experience of putting together a publishing team and negotiating the rules of the industry (many of […]

by Kirsten Oliphant When I joined Twitter in 2009, I had pretty low expectationsÔÇöas evidenced in my very first tweet: Seven years later, Twitter is one of my favorite platforms. Using Twitter, I found my first writing mastermind group, landed podcast interviews with power influencers like ProbloggerÔÇÖs Darren Rowse, and was once retweeted by Vanilla […]

An industry veteran calls for publishing to recognize the need to promote reading regardless of form By Janet McCarthy Grimm | The Association of American Publishers recently released its 2014 results for revenue in book publishing and journalism, and the final number was $28 billion. According to the International Publishers Association, the U.S. is the […]

By Ellen Harvey Testing books isnÔÇÖt a common practice in the publishing industry. It makes sense, considering that for the majority of the industryÔÇÖs history acquiring a new title relied on an individual editorÔÇÖs intuition and skill. In the past, the only way to find out if a book would be successful in a certain […]

Amazon – from clicks to bricks Nathaniel Mott Earlier this month, Amazon opened a bookstore in a mall that used to house a Barnes & Noble. Much has been written about this foray into the physical realm: ItÔÇÖs been┬ácalled a potential library of the future; Amazon itself has been called the Darth Vader of the […]

Anne Miler is a ‘QI elf’ and has shared some book-related facts with us that we think you will find quite interesting… by Anne Miller on www.waterstones.com We are a planet of book lovers: in Iceland, 1 in 10 people will publish a book, IKEA sells a bookcase every 10 seconds, and in Japan they […]

by Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine When you hear about networking platforms or building a presence on social media, authors generally talk about Facebook, Twitter, and blogging straight away. Sometimes podcasting and Pinterest┬áare mentioned. But Instagram? We asked our community of writers what questions they had about Instagram. Writer, podcaster, and photographer J.R. Blackwell said […]

With eight million listeners, Janey Lee Grace has spoken to more people in her lunch time than most people will ever do in their lifetime. ┬áAlready a multiple best-selling author with five books to her credit, she is well known the Media Spokesperson for the Organic and Natural Health world and also for Natural Childbirth […]

As a police officer in Swindon, Carl Rosier Jones went to make an arrest only to have a gun pulled on him and shot at him six times. “Fortunately he was firing blanks but I didn’t know that at the time. I┬á heard six bangs and I thought I was dead.┬á It was quite a […]

By: Larry Bennett If you are an author or a publisher of books that are not strictly narrative, are your ebooks a mirror image of your print books? Or have you taken advantage of the capabilities that the EPUB3 format provides to offer readers an enhanced reading experience? Ebooks, in rudimentary form, have been around […]