Raise your hand if a family member took your ‘professional’ headshot. Every two years, you need a professionally made career headshot. A real one. Read More
Jonathan Taplin’s Drive for a ‘Digital Renaissance’: DBW Keynote
Jonathan Taplin — film producer and Annenberg director—will warn Digital Book World that publishing may be ‘sleeping through a revolution.’ Read More
At ALA’s Midwinter Meeting: BiblioBoard Pivots As ‘Libraries Transform’
Libraries: From Info Vaults To Creative Hubs The American Library Association’s (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Boston, has just closed with some impressive numbers to report. Gary Price at Library Journal reports that a total 11,716 people attended the five-day event—librarians, library workers and supporters including 3,622 exhibitors. This makes the 2016 event some 1,000 people larger… Read More
Los Angeles Public Library and SELF-e ‘Foster a Community of Local Authorship’
By Porter Anderson / @Porter_Anderson ‘Connecting Our Local Authors With Readers’ A leader in creative-community relations, Los Angeles Public Library’s (LAPL) adoption of SELF-e’s capabilities is being watched by other library systems as a model. And who better to ask what it means to finally be able to acquire and promote local authors than the… Read More
Meet the First SELF-e Ambassador: Victoria Noe
By Porter Anderson / @Porter_Anderson Flash: Victoria Noe’s Top-10 standing with SELF-e is in the news in the Alliance of Independent Authors’ Self-Publishing Advice Member Showcase this month. Have a look! Be sure to see our September Top 10 SELF-e Books ‘The Opportunity To Be Discovered’ In a new program to spread awareness of SELF-e’s… Read More
At SELF-e: Cooking Up Memories With Gemini Ink and BiblioTech
By Porter Anderson / @Porter_Anderson Be sure to see our September Top 10 SELF-e Books Sharing Recipes and Life Recetas de mi vida — a lovely title that means “Recipes of My Life” — is more than a book, Anisa Onofre tells me. And it’s just the kind of collaborative effort with community creative talent that San… Read More
Cuyahoga County Public Library & SELF-e
By Porter Anderson / @Porter_Anderson Be sure to see our September Top 10 SELF-e Books ‘Standing Room Only’ Ahead of the new Skirball Writers’ Center It’s hard to find a library program more focused on supporting its local authors than Cuyahoga (“Kye-ah-HOE-ga”) County Public Library in Parma, Ohio. All you have to do is let… Read More
SELF-e Gets Indie eBooks Into Library Catalogs
The American Library Association’s (ALA) 2015 Annual Conference & Exhibition opened Thursday (25th June, #alaac15), in San Francisco with something unprecedented being offered at this year’s gathering: Library SELF-e’s first-ever national curated collection is now ready, an array of 200 indie ebooks that librarians can peruse and consider carrying for their patrons to check… Read More
Ebooks to and from China: Trajectory, Tencent, technology
At first glance, you may think that Trajectory is on a different trajectory. Today’s news — released first by The Bookseller this morning — is, if nothing else, about a lot of titles. And those titles, first and foremost, are part of a distribution deal. The Boston-based Trajectory, Inc., has inked a partnership with China’s big… Read More
A New Architecture Of Algorithms: Could Trajectory Make Books ‘Discoverable’ At Last?
‘To Read More Books In A Similar Vein’ As the book publishing industry heads into its first major conference of the year this week — Digital Book World (hash it #DBW15 with us) in New York City — we learn now that we won’t be seeing one late-breaking major development on the program. And that’s not the… Read More