Porter Anderson looks at Philip Jones’ new ebook sales ranking in London — and at Peter Brantley’s worries in the States about e-writings’ preservation. Read More
Writer Unboxed: I Know Nothing of Your Work
Porter Anderson, at Writer Unboxed, paraphrases the old Marshall McLuhan line to ask whether we’re more concerned with how we publish than what we write. Read More
Is Publishing’s Star System Cuckoo?
In the wake of the revelation of J.K. Rowling’s new crime novel, Porter Anderson looks at the publishing world’s star system and its implications for non-blockbuster authors. Read More
Bath Spa Uni's MIX Making Day: Hybrid Storytelling
Author Kate Pullinger on Bath Spa University’s conference on transmedia in storytelling – plus Craig Mod creates a new initiative to “narrative-map the world.” He calls it Hi. Read More
The Agents' View: A Case Study in Agent-Assisted Publishing
Movable Type agents Jason Allen Ashlock and Adam Chromy on the realities of staging the agency-managed Rogue Reader collective: Publishing Perspectives. Read More
My Agent By My Side": An Author's Assisted Publishing Experience
By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson SPECIAL COVERAGE: My Agent By My Side”: An Author’s Assisted Publishing Experience Author Ro Cuzon on the experience of being the star writer in an agent-assisted collective: I’ll never forget the first hefty check I got from The Rogue Reader: I was being paid to be a writer. Blurbs and… Read More
Two Experiments Running: Agent-Publishing in London
Our special coverage at Publishing Perspectives today looks at two agent-publishing experiments in London, and at efforts to demystify literary agenting. Read More
"Agent-Assisted Publishing": An Interrupted Debate
In special coverage, Porter Anderson opens the week’s focus on old and new concepts of literary agent work and their meaning for entrepreneurial authors. Read More
Is Today's Book Marketing All in the Algorithms?
In Publishing Perspectives’ Ether for Authors, Porter Anderson looks at the focus Joanna Penn puts on marketing algorithms: a report from the future. Read More
Independents Day: Should Authors Stop Linking to Amazon?
In Writing on the Ether, Porter Anderson examines recent calls for authors to stop linking to Amazon and instead focus on selling through local bookshops. Read More