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Amazon: E-book Sales Soared, Print Crawled
'...In a statement accompanying its fourth quarter and full year results for 2012, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos neatly summed up where he sees the future of book retailing heading--especially for his company. “We’re now seeing the transition we’ve been expecting,” ...
Fan-Based Attacks Can Kill Books Like This One
Writes New York Times reviewer, David Streitfeld: Reviews on Amazon are becoming attack weapons, intended to sink new books as soon as they are published.
Randall Sullivan is the author of “Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson. ...
Publishing World Acclimating to the Digital Revolution
Like the record industry before it, the publishing industry is changing dramatically. Of the Big Seven publishers (Random House, HarperCollins, MacMillan, Penguin, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group (Little, Brown & Co, et al), and Scholastic), six of them–all but ...
Next Amazon Novel Winners Will be Published by Amazon…Not Penguin
COMING SOON!
If you want to submit your novel to this contest, you need to get it ready for possible publication by Amazon! The inaugurial contest, held in 2012, offered the winner publication through Penguin. Amazon's has changed the rules just ...
Simon & Schuster’s New Self Publishing Imprint: Archway Publishing
Yep, Simon & Schuster have joined the other titans of publishing by adding a self publishing arm that caused one commenter on PW to write this: There's a typo in your headline. I think you meant to say 'Simon & ...
CONGRATULATIONS TO LOUISE ERDRICH!
I was thrilled to see that Louise Erdrich's The Round House won the 2012 National Book Award. Her story about rape of a native American Woman, society reaction and her family's rage is beyond compelling. Given these times when 'rape' ...
Scholastic Donates 1 Million Books To Sandy’s Victims!
Scholastic Books is da bomb!
Click here to read about their very generous donation to Hurricane Sandy's victims.
Twitter’s Power Gets A Nod In Publishers Weekly
Looks like Random House & Penguin may merge, an announcement that
triggered tons of traffic on Twitter. Publishers Weekly thought it worthy enough to 'show' not tell it readers. Social media has arrived.
Click here to view the 10/26/12 post