Fighting piracy is the dumbest thing you can do
Last week during the London Book Fair there was one (digital) topic that came back a few times: piracy. This was not surprising. The book
industry is increasingly digital, and it is understandable that the piracy of books is a subject people are concerned about.... Read more
Easter break boosts market
Physical book sales in
the seven days to 16th April soared 6.4% (£1.6m) week-on-week and were up 4.3% (£1.1m) on the same week last year, according to
Nielsen BookScan data. ... Read more
Why don't academic authors self-publish?
I got an invite from Frank Rennie the other week to contribute a chapter to a book he is thinking of putting together around the subject of the
mismatch (or distance) between academic thinking and the potential of new tools. Frank is a big fan of the self-publish sites and has suggested we eschew an
academic publisher, and just publish ourselves via Lulu or Blurb.... Read more
Why 99 cent ebooks are a bad deal - for authors
How much should an ebook
cost? The answer varies widely, depending on who is asked. Most traditional publishers price their authors' ebooks the same as the print version, reasoning
that the costs associated with publishing, marketing and promoting a title do not disappear when a book is published electronically.... Read more
Print stumbles early as ebooks skyrocket
The two reports measure different aspects of the book market and one is far more comprehensive than the other, but figures released last week by
Nielsen BookScan and the Association of American Publishers showed a trade market where e-books are thriving and print books are struggling.... Read
more
UK retailers rush to stake claim on BlackBerry PlayBook
Carphone Warehouse, Phones4U, Currys, PC World and Best Buy have all announced that they will be selling the BlackBerry PlayBook when it launches in
the UK.... Read more
The new way we read: 10 ways digital
books are changing our literary lives
The Hermitage Bookshop in Cherry Creek North, decidedly old-school with its oak furniture and elaborate Persian rug, isn't where you'd
expect to find a fan of ebooks, but listen to owner Bob Topp: "Ebooks have increased the purchase of print books," he says.... Read more
Planning for 2012 Digital Book World
The fact that Publishers Launch Conferences will stage half-a-dozen or more events before our next big multi-day Digital Book World blowout
next January doesn't change the DBW calendar. Now is the time of year when we have to start thinking about what the big issues will be at the turn of the year so we
can start planning the program. As we did last year, we'll be calling a meeting of our Conference Council (the 2012 group is currently in formation) at the
end of June to brainstorm the topics and our approach to covering them.... Read more
Are publishers ignoring the goldrush?
Buying back the rights to a debut novel and republishing it yourself as an ebook sounds complicated, but it's not, writes DECLAN BURKE, who is
selling his for 99 cent on Kindle... Read more
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