Amazon Gets Physical
The e-tailer plans to open a physical store in Manhattan, Amazon arms authors with data and resources, ebooks on track to overtake print by 2018, HarperCollins adds titles to Bookmate's catalog, the...
View ArticleKids E-Reading, With a Little Help From Their Parents
New research shows children are reading ebooks and parents are spending more on them, why it's too early to foretell the death of the ebook market, Nook device sales tank, Hachette finalizes Black Dog...
View ArticleAuthors Guild Pushes for Book Contract Reform
The Authors Guild launched a “Fair Contract Initiative” yesterday designed to rethink what the organization sees as inequitable agreements between authors and publishers in the digital age. Through a...
View ArticleFixing Author-Publisher Partnerships
As The Authors Guild sees it, the digital age has not been kind to most authors. According to preliminary results from a recent survey of its members, the organization finds authors’ income from their...
View ArticleThe Author Contract Battle Goes Global
Dated January 5th, the Authors Guild’s open letter to the Association of American Publishers leads the loudest call yet for contract reform in publishing’s relations with authors. This is a coordinated...
View ArticleHow Publishers Are Squandering Their Data
Who has access to the data that can best predict how readers will spend their money? Who has data on how people read books—how far they get, how many they buy, how often they buy, whether their...
View ArticleThere Is Revenue That Publishers Are Preventing Themselves from Getting
In a blog post, Mike Shatzkin writes: “In our Logical Marketing work with partner Peter McCarthy over the past couple of years, helping publishers with the next-phase challenges of digital marketing,...
View ArticleSupreme Court Will Not Hear Authors Guild’s Appeal
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge from The Authors Guild to Google’s online book library. Previously, lower courts have said that Google can offer small portions of books online without...
View ArticleHow Authors Should Advertise on Facebook
The chatter about Facebook ads in book marketing circles these days is all about building massive email lists and selling books. And although I am in that corner, I also believe that there are many...
View ArticleAuthors Guild Opens Membership to New and Unpublished Writers
The Authors Guild announced today that it is allowing new and unpublished writers to join the organization. Called the Emerging Writers membership, this new option gives writers access to, according to...
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