Last night, Dear Author co-editor Jane Litte posted the contents of a rather unusual letter from the Romance Writers of America , in which professional relations manager Carol Ritter informed the romance blogger that, after three years as an associate member of RWA, she would not be permitted to renew her membership because "numerous posts on your blog and on the 'romfail' thread on Twitter that...
Japan and Japanese culture have been major influences on the life and writing of Wendy Nelson Tokunaga. She signed a two-book deal with St. Martin’s just as she was beginning the MFA in Writing program at the University of San Francisco in 2006. Midori by Moonlight came out the following year with terrific reviews, and Love in Translation hits bookstores next week. From the press kit: After receiving...
Ratings powerhouse to close in 2011, allowing Oprah to concentrate on her own cable channel.After more than 20 years in which Oprah Winfrey shook up the medium of the daytime talkshow, rising to become a ratings and cultural powerhouse, she is to announce today that she is bringing her show to an end. Yesterday she told her 600 staff in Chicago that the Oprah Winfrey show would end in September 2011....
The numbers are in, and eBooks may very well be the bright spot in book publishing's dim future--but only if publishers can figure out a way to keep the momentum going. EBook sales accounted for $46.5 million as of the end of September , according to the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), but that number only represents trade eBook sales through wholesale channels. Retail numbers may be...
Pirates find easy new pickings in open waters of e-book publishing is the headline of a Times piece in the U.K. As reported there: –American publishers have lost “more than $600 million” to piracy, by one estimate. –Readers downloaded illegal copies of Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol “more than 100,000 times” within days. –In excess of [...]
Urban Planner is Torontoist's guide to what's on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you'd like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you've got any—to events@torontoist.com . Photo of Devo playing live by Steve Rhodes . MUSIC: For the first time in twenty-five years, Devo ('80s pop bastion of...
The December 09 issue of real living goes on sale today and we've featured the shop Lark Handmade . I interviewed Allison Jones about her shop for the magazine but was curious to learn more about the woman behind what's possibly the cutest shop in the world. Here's what she had to say: Which five words best describe you? Positive, hardworking, excitable, shy, hopeful. What was your first job and what...
The open source movement began in software development. People hacking code for operating systems and Big Applications started writing the same thing, but for free, and were joined by thousands of others. They were prepared to give their labour without charge to a cause for the common good. That's all rather abstract. In concrete terms it means you can now have everything from operating systems (Linux,...
Genre publishing has taken some hard hits in recent years — but a slew of independent publishers is still out there, charting the unknown regions of book publishing and keeping your reading... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
At Booksquare , Kassia Krozser discusses e-books and digital rights management — the most common security measure companies use to control things like e-books and mp3. 'In the traditional book transaction, author and publisher control over the book ends when I hand over my money for the book. All the hopes that content will be used in the manner the publisher and/or author envision are gone when...
Ratings powerhouse to close in 2011, allowing Oprah to concentrate on her own cable channel After more than 20 years in which Oprah Winfrey shook up the medium of the daytime talkshow, rising to become a ratings and cultural powerhouse, she is to announce today that she is bringing her show to an end. Yesterday she told her 600 staff in Chicago that the Oprah Winfrey show would end in September 2011....
Since Viral Loop hit bookstores a month ago, I've chronicled the Viral Loop Facebook application that was designed to spread and accompany the iPhone app to promote the book, my social Web marketing plan, explained why publishers don't market authors, and why book reviews don't matter anymore. But one question that readers always ask is how do you get a book deal in the first place? Assuming you have...
What is it with the The Hills stars and book publishing? First Lauren Conrad published her now bestselling novel, L.A. Candy, and Spencer and Heidi Pratt are writing a book on how to become famous… so what’s next? Well, Lauren’s chart topping book went over well with publishers -so well that they have asked her to [...] Related posts: The Hills: Lauren Conrad Calls Spencer A Liar...
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