Category: Publishing Industry

A New Publishing World Requires a New Type of Writer

Over the course of the last 29 days of Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN) blog posts, one thing struck me over and over again: The publishing world changes almost daily. I know most writers know this. They just don’t always get what it means to them and to their ability to succeed as authors. And [...]

Wednesday November 30th, 2011 in Author Coaching, Commitment to Your Dream, Doing Unwanted Tasks, Publishing Industry, Writing Coaching | No Comments »

Rate of Blog-to-Book Deals Reaches Past Heights

In my last post at my other blog, How to Blog a Book, I discussed the reality that numerous blogs continue to land publishing contracts and become books–enough to constitute an ongoing trend, in spite of what some industry experts have previously stated. Actually, I disclosed that the number of blog-to-book releases in October 2011 [...]

Wednesday October 19th, 2011 in Blogging, Blogging, Blogging a Book, Platform, Publishing Industry, Writing Books, Writing Tips | No Comments »

Amazon Takes on the New York Publishing Houses

I read something interesting today in the New York Times. It seems Amazon.com has decided to enter the publishing game. Not only does the company now provide aspiring authors with the ability to self-publish POD and e-books–and to read them not only on a Kindle e-book reader but also on the new Kindle Fire–but has [...]

Monday October 17th, 2011 in Print-on-Demand Publishing, publishing, Publishing Industry, Self-Publishing, Traditional Publishing | 1 Comment »

The Last Chance to Prevent a Googleopoly?

Today agent and author Mike Larsen provides a guest post on an important topic: How to prevent Google from scanning and making available via the Internet all 130 million unique books in the world by the end of the decade. Michael proposes and interesting prevention plan. The Last Chance to Prevent Googleopology? By Michael Larsen [...]

Friday April 1st, 2011 in Publishing Industry | No Comments »

Amanda Hocking and Barry Eisler Chat about Publishing

Literary agent Ted Weinstein, who I have the pleasure of seeing each year at the San Francisco Writers Conference, has done us all a favor and gotten Amanda Hocking and Barry Eisler together to chat about publishing and their recent decision about how to publish their own books. They’ve compared indie publishing to traditional publishing–of [...]

Thursday March 31st, 2011 in E-Books, publishing, Publishing Industry, Self-Publishing, Traditional Publishing | No Comments »

Hocking signs 4-book deal so she can be a writer

After I published this post yesterday, today I saw this article announcing that Amanda Hocking had, indeed, signed a four-book deal with St. Martin’s Press in New York, reportedly for $2 million. As she said in her blog, she’s a writer: “I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling emails, formatting covers, [...]

Friday March 25th, 2011 in E-Books, publishing, Publishing Industry, Self-Publishing, The Business of Writing | No Comments »

Will you pick yourself or wait to be picked?

In a recent blog post, best-selling author and marketing expert made this statement:”No one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.” He was talking about the fact that authors and musicians are making millions without so-called “gatekeepers.”  and that the gatekeepers–”the pickers,” as Godin called them–are losing power. He stressed that most of us want [...]

Friday March 25th, 2011 in Blogging, publishing, Publishing Industry, Self-Publishing, Traditional Publishing | No Comments »

Self-Publishing E-books Takes Time Away from Writing

I said it yesterday, unless you have a huge platform, are paying someone to do your promotion for you, have hired a design team (an editorial team is assumed), and use some sort of support service for your publishing process, as an indie publisher–e-books or print books–you will not necessarily have more time to write. [...]

Thursday March 24th, 2011 in Author Coaching, E-Books, publishing, Publishing Industry, Self-Publishing | 1 Comment »

Why Self-Publish an Ebook? “Ebooks are forever.”

Here’s the latest news in the world of e-book self-publishing: Bestselling thriller author Barry Eisler turned down his traditional publishers $500,000 contract for two books and will instead self-publish his next novel. After a bit of prompting from his daughter, he self-published a short story in the e-book market with great success. Now he is [...]

Wednesday March 23rd, 2011 in Agents, E-Books, Publishing Industry | 2 Comments »

The Future of Publishing (Part 3)

Ranson Stephens, Ph.D., a writer, physicist, and public speaker, joins us one last time for part three of his series on the future of the publishing industry. He’s a novelist and mentions other novelists as well as nonfiction writers. The information in his posts is relevant to all writers. Today he looks at the inimitable [...]

Monday February 21st, 2011 in publishing, Publishing Industry | 2 Comments »