Porter Anderson at JaneFriedman.com asks for Ether reader input about the rising demands for author speed and productivity in writing books today. Read More
Read: Are Publishing Firefights Hurting the Mission?
Porter Anderson, in his weekly (Tuesdays) Ether for Authors column at PublishingPerspectives.com, looks at the field’s bellicose pleasure in crises. Read More
FutureBook: Orna Ross, the Pudding Would Like a Word
By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson The FutureBook: Orna Ross, the Pudding Would Like a Word At The FutureBook: What’s important is for all of us to remember that our words, our expressions of opinion, can be hurtful, wrong, unfair, damaging. It’s incumbent upon us to be careful. A tip from the long-lost arts of journalism:… Read More
When Amazon Sat Down With the Lambs
In this week’s Writing on the Ether from Porter Anderson at JaneFriedman.com: A unique discussion between Amazon executives, entrepreneurial authors, and media people at BEA touched on self-publishing and reader expectations. Read More
How London Beat BEA's Pants Off
Authors at BEA seem welcome, but only in their place. They’re not expected to be doing business. BEA started in the era of publisher-controlled authors. Ether for Authors from Publishing Perspectives – with Porter Anderson. Read More
BEA: Malcolm Gladwell Takes Aim
By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson Writing on the Ether: Casting Stones at BEA At IDPF’s Digital Book 2013 Conference at BEA, headliner Malcolm Gladwell, ahead of his forthcoming David and Goliath: “In 10 years, best-selling authors will [still] need marketers and editors…Good marketers and editors will find a way to be relevant…[And in reference to… Read More
Read about BEA: BoatExpo America
By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson Ether for Authors: BoatExpo America You wouldn’t think BookExpo America (BEA) at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City had much to do with the huge boat shows that fill such trade-show arenas . But you’d be wrong. When the industry! the industry! barges into the city at the… Read More
From Writer Unboxed: Agreeable Disagreement
By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson Writer Unboxed: Agreeable Disagreement We’re flagging these columns “Provocations in Publishing” because the industry! the industry! is one overwrought place these days. Have you noticed how many publishing people stage every disagreement as if it’s life and death? No Writer Unboxed reader would ever do this, of course. It’s the others we’re talking about.… Read More
Read: Indies at BEA & Amazon's Fan-Fic
By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson Writing on the Ether: The Indies Are Coming! Not that Big Six. (Thank you, Roz Morris.) This big six is a sextet of the highest-rising stars of the entrepreneurial-author firmament. They’ve taken Booth 966 together at BookExpo America (BEA). They are Bella Andre, Stephanie Bond, Tina Folsom, Barbara Freethy, Hugh Howey, and CJ Lyons. And as they head for New… Read More
Read: Hitting a Rough Patchett
By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson Ether for Authors: Ann Patchett’s Flying Leap On this side of the pond, there may be few authors as fondly regarded as Ann Patchett, she of the independent bookstore Parnassus in Nashville. But when she told The Bookseller in London that authors should become more involved in the industry and take greater responsibility as part of… Read More