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
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
Ether for Authors: Which Way Should B&N Go?
In Ether for Authors, Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives looks at the fortunes of B&N and has new reactions from observers on the struggle. Read More
Ether for Authors: Look Who's Not Talking
In Publishing Perspectives’ Ether for Authors, Porter Anderson looks at the relative silence of major publishing house’s leadership–in a noisy industry. Read More
Ether for Authors: Beta Readers in the Race
Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives asks in Ether for Authors whether an idea from author Hugh Howey might not help promote pro beta readers Read More