Costing the books industry as much as €528M, piracy is a major target for Italian book and news publishers in 2020. Read More
Italian Book Publishers Reveal €528M Lost to Piracy Yearly
At Berlin’s Ullstein Buchverlage
Able to trace its founding dates to the 19th century, Ullstein Buchverlage describes itself as Germany’s most successful hardcover publisher. And while many houses are commercializing, Ullstein wants to be more literary. Read More
Tom Goodwin: ‘Digital Darwinist’
‘Challenging all assumptions of the past’ may be only the beginning of life after the digital disruption, Tom Goodwin says. And when he speaks at London Book Fair’s Quantum Conference, he’ll be talking about the ‘share-of-attention’ dilemma. Read More
Author Pay and Publishing Profits
How profits from publishing are sliced up has become an industry debate in London, where agents are joining the Society of Authors in asking for more transparency. Read More
Provocations in Publishing: A Major Publisher Jumps the Shark
At Writer Unboxed, Porter Anderson focuses on the recent revelation by publisher HarperCollins of the profitability of ebooks — at what some see as authors’ expense. A Provocation in Publishing post. Read More
The "W" in AWP
Authors in the Spotlight: How To Turn Your Readings Into Book Sales with Porter Anderson Join me in this special three-hour intensive Boot Camp session at Writer’s Digest Conference East (#WDCE) at 12:30pET on Friday, April 5. We’ll look at public presentation for the entrepreneurial author in an interactive, up-on-your-feet workshop format: come with two… Read More
What We Leave Behind
From February 5, 2013 An excerpt from my series of Ether for Authors columns on publishing at Publishing Perspectives, appearing Tuesdays. Table of Contents Tick-TOC: Optimism Ahead What We Leave Behind: ‘There Is No Midlist’ But More Optimism: An International Startup Showcase Tick-TOC: One Week To Go It would be enough to know simply that… Read More
WRITING ON THE ETHER: Three Agents, Changing
By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson From December 6, 2012 Part of my series of columns on publishing, Writing on the Ether, appearing Thursdays at the invitation of Jane Friedman at JaneFriedman.com Three Agents, Changing In time, there’s going to be so much self-publishing that you’ll have to invent publishing. Never mind that David Mitchell,… Read More
Ether for Authors – 11 December
Table of Contents Flexibility: Listening to the Publishers’ Convo Tech-ing Up: ‘Transformative, Exciting, Alarming’ Authors on Publishers: Who’s Sorry Now? Your Turn: Surveying Discoverability Except Some Countries: Amazon’s International Competition Craft: Storyboarding as a Sales Tool Craft: Making the Scene Craft: Take Aim at Foot and… Conferences To Consider (And Tell Me Yours) Books: Reading… Read More
ETHER FOR AUTHORS: Sans Frontieres
By Porter Anderson / @Porter_Anderson Table of Contents Welcome to Ether for Authors: Worldwide Gas A Scamp on Skype: Penn Interviews Wendig ‘Piracy’: Poland’s Circulation of Culture Writing Digital: Two From Janestown Author Collectives: The Reader’s Second Rogue Selling It: How To Piss Off Everybody New Conferences: Authors Launch & TOC Authors Books: Reading on… Read More