In Publishing Perspectives’ Ether for Authors, Porter Anderson looks at wry digital exhaustion, agents demystifying their craft, and adult YA readers. Read More
And Would You Just Save the Libraries, Too, Please?
In his overview of the week’s web buzz, Porter Anderson looks at an authors-for-libraries effort, DRM debates, Ewan Morrison’s provocations, and more. Read More
Bowker: How Clear a View of Publishing Do We Have?
In Publishing Perspectives’ Ether for Authors, Porter Anderson looks at intriguing findings in Bowker Market Research’s new 2013 Annual Review. Read More
Does Publishing Need More Gatekeepers?
In Ether for Authors, Porter Anderson looks at the NY Times’ wistful call for ‘more gatekeepers ’ for authors; copyright contentions; and ‘thought verbs. Read More
Is Amazon-Bashing Doing Publishing Any Good?
In Publishing Perspectives’ Ether for Authors, Porter Anderson looks at a new heat-wave round of Amazon-bashing in an industry that has better things to do. Read More
Are Publishers on a Tightrope with Author Solutions?
As Penguin’s Book Country relaunches with 8,300 manuscript-development members, the anticipated questions arise about the role(s) of Author Solutions. Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives. 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
"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
Should Literary Fiction Come Out of the Cloisters?
In this edition of Writing on the Ether at Porter Anderson looks on the comparative dynamics of literary fiction in the marketplace, amid discussions of Twitter’s effectiveness for authors. Read More