Archive for eBook
Are bookstores more about experience than product now?
Books and publishing are evolving. That’s plain to see. The rising popularity and functionality of ebooks and e-readers continues to establish their presence in the market. Authors who have the ability to republish their backlist online, direct to readers, (such as how J.K. Rowling is doing with the Harry Potter books) will benefit enormously from this [...]
Nascence – A short story collection all fiction writers should read
Nascence is not your average short story collection. And I’m not talking about the quality of the stories found within, because some of them are…well…bad. That’s the point. Am I confusing you yet? Nascence comes from science fiction author Tobias Buckell (Check out Crystal Rain, first of his Satrapy books). Buckell decided to gather together [...]
The Pursuit of Publishing – An Unvarnished Guide for the Perplexed
Self-pubbed. POD. Vanity publisher. Literary agents. Proposals. Queries. The publishing industry is a great, complicated beast that is pretty much impossible to tame. With the rise of eBooks and eReaders, the issues are even more confusing than before. Where do you start if you want to write a book or make a career out of [...]
Perspectives on traditional and self-publishing
With the explosion of eBooks, e-readers, and the variety of e-publishing venues available to writers, there seems to be a paralleling expansion of confusing discussions and debates being tossed back and forth between writers and authors on both sides of the issue. Is self-publishing the holy grail for writers? Is traditional publishing an evil bastion [...]
