For all the mistrust that some in the creative corps today harbor for traditional publishers, Reidy is absolutely right that those publishers need to engage—and not just to remind us of what great work they can do but to tell us some of the challenges and hurdles they face. Read More
A New Voice in the Book World: The Author
Many in publishing today like to call the author Hugh Howey ”overexposed.” And, as is usually the case when you hear this about a newsmaker, it means his messages are hitting home. For all the fine writers we have working today, we have not, until now, had one who had the time, the temperament, the visibility, and the stamina to articulate with real force the author’s experience of the digital dynamic. This is a firebrand, a smart one. Read More
The Ether Is Moving to Thought Catalog
Ich bin ein millennial. I’m just not telling them which millennium. Launched in February 2010, ThoughtCatalog.com, a property of Thought.Is, is known, not without controversy, as a buslting, cool hub of self-expression for smart writers whose perspective, talent, and purview skew quite young. By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson Writing on the Ether: The Ether Is Moving to ThoughtCatalog.com Read the… Read More
Short Reads: The Rooster Crows, Very Briefly
If one more person announces that Dickens worked in serial form, I’m probably going to have to be physically restrained. We know. In fact, we’ve known all along. Don’t tell us again that Dickens did serials, okay? Okay. Read More
A Most Audible Alarm: ACX Chops Royalties
ACX has positioned itself as an enabler of rights “liberation” for entrepreneurial authors…only to then yank half the rug out from under those authors by dropping royalties of up to 90 percent down to 40 percent. Read More
London Author Fair’s Debut: Change Agents
The inaugural #LAF14 was attended by close to 300 people and presented with knees-up professionalism at Covent Garden’s Hospital Club — a daylong journey’s sophisticated tour of entrepreneurial authors’ interests. Read More
Another Leap of Hybrid Faith: New Publishing Routes
Author Shanna Swendson’s series was dropped by her US publisher, picked up by her Japanese publisher, and then finished in the States — being her own publisher, having been “hit upside the head with the clue stick” by her agent. Read More
Sir Hugh and the Snail
This champion of self-publishing is signing a new contract, a traditional deal, with Random House UK’s Century imprint for SAND as he did for the WOOL trilogy. Guess what: This is not about self-publishing vs. traditional publishing. Read More
Earning the Authors a Say
It’s the second AuthorEarnings.com report, with some 54,000 Amazon ebook titles — Hugh Howey’s new initiative to demonstrate parity in the potential earnings for self-publishing authors unveils its second set of calculations. Read More
Do Hugh Howey’s AuthorEarnings Add Up?
By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson Issues on the Ether: Do Hugh Howey’s AuthorEarnings Add Up? Do Hugh Howey’s AuthorEarnings Add Up? In Publishing Perspectives’ Issues on the Ehter, Porter Anderson preps an #EtherIssue live debate on Hugh Howey’s new AuthorEarnings.com initiative. Read the full post: PublishingPerspectives.com Google+ Join our Headliners at BEA’s uPublishU AUTHOR… Read More