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
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
On the Ether: Let's Review Criticism
In Writing on the Ether, Porter Anderson at JaneFriedman.com looks at how literary criticism now is divided into three major camps, none fully effective. 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: While You Were Bashing Amazon
On the Ether at JaneFriedman.com, Porter Anderson looks at Amazon Publishing’s latest strides — $110,000 in author awards and a new million-copy seller. Read More
On the Ether: Faster, Authors, Faster!
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
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