Self-publishing booms in the US
26 November 2012Recent figures from Bowker show self-publishing continuing its rapid growth in the US. The number of self-published books coming out has nearly tripled since 2006, with 235,625 new...
View ArticleA good 'appetite for books'
21 January 2013 As an antidote to general economic gloom and anxiety about the pace of change, it's good to have the Guardian blog posted by Stephen Page, CEO of Faber, who has recently pointed out...
View ArticleThe winds of change
15 April 2013Today is the first day of the London Book Fair, which is going to be an interesting occasion this year. The winds of change are sweeping through the publishing industry as digital...
View ArticleJames Oswald tops Kindle list
13 May 2013This week's publishing sensation is James Oswald, Scottish farmer and writer, who has achieved his current success because of single-minded determination to publicise his work. Through his...
View ArticleNew York welcomes upbeat BookExpo 2013
3 June 2013This weekend New York has been the destination of thousands of booksellers, publishers and others involved with books, as they participate in the annual Americna Booksellers' Association...
View Article20% of ebooks self-published
17 June 2013Recent data from Bowker confirms that self-published books now make up 20% of all ebook sales in the UK and it's more than that in the most successful ebook categories - crime, science...
View ArticleFinding a publisher through self-publishing
2 December 2013Pan MacmillanOne of largest fiction and non-fiction book publishers in UK; includes imprints of Pan, Picador and Macmillan Children’s Books in the UK has just acquired Mary Wood, a...
View ArticleSelf-publishing v publishing traditionally
9 December 2013A very interesting article from Digital Book World explores some fascinating research into writers' different approaches to publishing traditionally and self-publishing. This relates to...
View ArticleA challenge to Harry Potter?
30 December 2013The latest self-publishing success story comes from the most unlikely place - France. Or perhaps it is not so surprising, since the French publishing world is known for its rigidity and...
View ArticleDo authors prefer traditional publishing to self-publishing?
13 January 2014Dana Beth Weinberg has written about the recently-released figures showing that most American authors prefer traditional publishing to self-publishing: ‘ The recent Digital Book World...
View ArticleMost authors earn less than £600 ($1,000) from their writing
27 January 2014Further information from the 2014 Digital Book World and Writer's Digest Author Survey shows the appallingly low level of income most writers get from their books. In News Review 13...
View ArticleEmbracing change
3 March 2014Kerry Wilkinson's blog, Self-publishing changed my life, but my publisher grew my sales, is a useful corrective to the view that publishing is dead and the counter-view that self-publishing...
View ArticleDo creative writing courses work?
10 March 2014Following on from Hanif Kureishi's attack on creative writing courses this week, this old chestnut of a question has turned up again. Kureishi has dismissed creative writing courses as "a...
View ArticleFunding literary writers
26 May 2014In an article in the print edition of the Bookseller, Philip Gwyn Jones offered a clear-sighted analysis of the current model of funding literary writing. He is the former publisher of...
View ArticlePrint on demand plunges/Frankfurt Book Fair sets up self-publishing programme
1 September 2014Recent figures from Bowker in the US show a startling plunge in the number of titles printed print-on-demand by 46% year-on-year. Even more surprising perhaps is that this decline is...
View ArticleAuthors take the long view - publishers don't
2 February 2015Amazingly, it looks as if many authors are having a longer-term business outlook towards the publishing of their books than traditional publishers have managed to achieve. The latest...
View ArticleEbooks challenged by print books
11 May 2015The trends on ebooks show a backwards shift. Whilst in 2012 there was a rapid shift towards ebooks, this has now reversed itself in favour of print books. To some extent this seems to be...
View ArticleHas self-publishing changed publishing?
18 May 2015There's so much talk about the way self-publishing has changed publishing, but has it really? There's plenty of evidence that, for the authors trying to get themselves taken on by a...
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