‘A much stronger role for the library in the future of the book’ US library digital patron-services provider BiblioBoard and Canadian online book-production specialist Pressbooks are forming a new partnership called Pressbooks Public, designed to let libraries offer e-book-publishing services to their local authors. The timing of the coordinated effort by Pressbooks and BiblioBoard is significant: the beta version… Read More
Between a Blog and a Hard News Cycle
How Do You Know If You Can Say No to NaNo? The Internet has mutated reasonable people into wannabe writers…We are blind to the harsh truth-light-radiating facts such as ‘half of self-published authors earn less than $500’, facts written about in newspapers by professional writers. That’s Tom Mitchell (@tommycm on Twitter) writing an essay at… Read More
Seattle's Finest: Jon Fine Is Leaving Amazon
The Face Of The Company’s Publishing Platforms To Thousands After almost nine years at Amazon, I am sorry to announce that Jon Fine has decided to leave the company at the end of the year. When he wrote the internal memo that told the Amazon workforce of Jon Fine’s impending departure, Charles Kronbach, may have had the same… Read More
The Haunting of NaNoWriMo
Put that copy of Eleanor Catton back down. True, I’d be honored to be crushed by a Man Booker Prize–winner. But heaving The Luminaries at me is unfair. It’s an 848-page New Zealand boulder. I deserve a fighting chance. Pelt me with Kindle Singles instead. Read More