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Updates

Posted by Melissa on September 11, 2011 in Books, Breaking News, Publishing, Writing |

Okay so, I’m up early and I thought I would post some updates.  I’m currently halfway through The Firelight of Maalda and I have to say I love writing this book!  I’ve been having a lot of fun with it but also keeping in mind not to drone on for too long over unnecessary details, [...]

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Will Publishers Be Able to Adapt to the New Digital Age?

Posted by Melissa on May 11, 2011 in Publishing |

A friend of mine sent me a link to this article today that discusses what former Borders chairman, Luke Johnson, said about the current publishing market: There will surely be material deflation in the price of e-books over time. The inevitable disappearance of the vast majority of bookshops will remove a main marketing channel and [...]

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Updates …

Posted by Melissa on May 8, 2011 in Breaking News |

Okay so it’s been a while since I last posted and I have a ton of news.  First of all, there is more information on the traditional publishing world under-reporting book sales.  Last time I posted, I talked about some of the Big 6 under-reporting e-book sales.  Well, now there is evidence that they are [...]

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Big News in Publishing Industry …

Posted by Melissa on April 15, 2011 in Publishing |

Wow, there has been so much going on in the publishing industry that I don’t even know where to begin.  So, I will start with e-books.  This article on the Publisher’s Weekly website, reports that, according to AAP’s monthly sales estimates, e-book sales exploded in February, increasing by 202.3% while adult hardcover sales decreased by [...]

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E-book Pricing and More …

Posted by Melissa on March 29, 2011 in Publishing |

There seems to be a lot of contention these days about e-book pricing.  In an article on O’rielly Radar that I read about e-book pricing and HTML5 (a new web technology), Jenn Webb and Todd Sattersten discuss how e-book pricing will affect the increase in use of e-readers.  The average price of e-books is A LOT lower [...]

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Two Self-Publishing Authors, Two Different Choices

Posted by Melissa on March 28, 2011 in Authors |

Although the general population doesn’t know it, there is a war raging right now between New York publishers and those authors who fiercely support self-publishing.  I’ve been coming across it everywhere I look ever since I attended the Superstars Writing Seminar in January.  The buzz these days seems to be about two authors who made two different [...]

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