It’s the myth that just won’t die. Ebooks are Dying. Sales are down. Kindles are Clunky! Help! Alarm! Except they aren’t. It’s really disappointing that reporters for major outlets continue to get this story wrong. And they continue to assert …
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CURATION, DISCOVERY AND THE INDIE AUTHOR
Indie publishing has created a revolution. Hugh Howey became one of the top selling science fiction authors via self-publishing. Author Earnings reports that indie published titles are approaching 45% of all eBook unit sales on Amazon! But with that revolution …
A Conversation with Alexia Chamberlynn
As part of our author profile series, we had a chance to catch up with Alexia Chamberlynn, author of Martinis with the Devil, Whiskey with Angelfire and Black Magic and Mojitos, some fun Urban Fantasy novels featuring a Katana-wielding, supernatural …
whitefox publishing, and why books are like Pokemon Go!
As part of our ongoing series of interviews with authors and folks from the publishing word, we had a chance to catch up with John Bond, the CEO of whitefox Publishing, he was kind enough to answer some questions for …
Porter Square Books
Cafe Zing @ Porter Square Books So, Wednesday I found myself over in Porter Square for a “Techs in Libraries” meet up — geeks who work on libraries. I found myself there 20 minutes early — just enough time for some coffee. Happily, there was …
Manchester by the Book
It’s getting to be summer in New England. But it’s not officially summer in New England until you’ve been to Woodman’s of Essex for fried clams. Finding myself with a free Saturday last weekend, off I went. And it’s not …
Another nail in the coffin of subscription book reading
Electric Literature reports: We’ve written previously about Scribd and the challenges of the ebook subscription model. Electric Lit reports that Scribd will more-or-less gut the service by imposing hard-to-understand limits on how much you can read on the service. It’s …
A few months with Scribd
While I’m a bit late to the game, I’ve spent the last 3 months exploring the subscription model for ebooks. As you may have heard, the inventor of the concept – Oyster – shut down awhile back (Amazon has Kindle …
The hysteria over ebook sales drops is mistaken.
If you follow book news, you haven’t been able to get away from headlines shrieking about how the book industry is dying (again!), and ebook sales are falling, and the world is ending ( Are we losing faith in e-books? , …