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eBook Wars
In their usual muckraking fashion (I mean that in a good way), Bleeding Cool have alerted the comics world to developments in Apple’s app store policies, which, according to BC writer Mark Seifert,...
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Anti-Amazon FUD & Penguin [Threatened] Lawsuit & Blah
A handful of thoughts about this New York Times article on Amazon’s new publishing program: “The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and reader,” [said Amazon's...
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CORRECTED: To See the Future of Book Publishing, Look at Comics
Here’s where I think book publishing is going: thousands of authors will self-publish their own books. Maybe tens of thousands. Maybe hundreds of thousands. Self-publishing a book will be as common in...
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Looking for Somebody to Help You With Your E-Book? Here’s a Bunch of Them
Here’s a spreadsheet containing dozens of professionals who do freelance work in the e-book production cycle, from cover illustration to copy editing and everything in between. I don’t remember how I...
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Diary Comic: The Pot Calling the Kettle Monopolistic
This is how they answer the phone at St. Martin’s Press, publishers of my first novel: Thank you for calling Macmillan, formerly Holtzbrink Publishers. You have also reached St. Martin’s Press, Henry...
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Pricing for Short Stories
While reading the latest “Best American Short Stories” collection, I discovered the existence of a program called The Atlantic Fiction for Kindle, essentially a set of short stories, curated by The...
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I Don’t Know Anything About E-Book Pricing, But Here Is My Blog Post on the...
Actually, I do know a little bit. Amazon used to “buy” e-books from big publishers in a way that resembled the way they bought print books from them. That is to say: they paid a set price — set by the...
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BookBaby Thoughts and Questions
There’s this service for self-publishing authors called BookBaby, sibling of the long-established CD Baby service for indie musicians, that I’ve been thinking about using. They handle putting your book...
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Kindle App for iPad Versus iBooks: a Personal Take
I prefer reading books in iBooks, mainly because of the note about how many pages are left in the current chapter. That’s the kind of thing I like to know. Even when reading print books, I flip ahead...
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