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Why so many celebrities are releasing memoirs
What's behind the recent glut of celebrity memoirs? Fans can't get enough of the rich and famous, and the stars want a chance to control the narrative.
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Commentary: Plotting success: 7 steps to writing and publishing your book
When I entered the new season of my life called retirement in 2007, a multitude of “I’ve always wanted to _______ ” thoughts floated through my mind. One that kept
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When is a bestseller not necessarily a bestseller?
When publishers pay to get on a shop's bestselling shelves or staff base rankings on sales forecasts. #writingcommunity
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The Key Ingredients of a Good Audiobook
A narrator reveals her tricks.
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An author bought his own book to get higher on bestseller lists. Is that fair?
Author Mark Dawson has attracted criticism after bulk buying his own book gave him a high chart position. But that isn’t breaking any rules
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'In 24 hours, people gave us £40,000': how readers rescued a small press
If a novelist had submitted a story to my publishing company about someone losing £40,000 one day and then regaining it the next, thanks to the beautiful kindness of thousands of strangers, I would have thought that it sounded unlikely. If that novelist had also set the story just before Christmas, included scenes where one of the protagonists starts weeping during a phone call and brought events to a neat conclusion almost exactly 24 hours after they started...
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Torn apart: the vicious war over young adult books
arlier this month, the author and screenwriter Gareth Roberts announced that his story was being removed from a forthcoming Doctor Who anthology. Having been shown Roberts’s past tweets about transgender people, BBC Books said that his views “conflict with our values as a publisher”. At least one of the book’s other contributors, Susie Day, had promised to withdraw from the project if Roberts were included. “I raised my concerns, and said if he was in, I was out,” Day said.
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The Business of the Romance Novel
How romance novels—despite their decided lack of cultural clout—became big business for the publishing industry.
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WordPress, Google team on new CMS and monetization for local news publishers - Marketing Land
The platform will offer "out-of-the-box integrations" with various ad and subscription systems, including Google's.
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Why we are fascinated by miniature books
It is known as the “fly’s eye Dante”: an 1878 edition of the Divine Comedy which is so small – just 11/4 by 13/4 inches – that it is said to have taken 11 years to print, and to have damaged the eyes of both its compositor and corrector. Bound in red leather embossed with gold, the world’s smallest edition of Dante’s classic poem, which was printed by the Salmin Brothers in Padua, is one of almost 50 officially designated miniature books housed in the London Library.
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Publishing industry is overwhelmingly white and female, US study finds
Survey of workforce at 34 book publishers and eight review journals in US reveals 79% of staff are white and 78% female – with UK numbers still unmonitored. A survey of American publishing has found that it is blindingly white and female, with 79% of staff white and 78% women. Multicultural children’s publisher Lee & Low Books surveyed staff at 34 American publishers, including Penguin Random House and Hachette , as well as eight review journals, to establish a baseline to measure diversity among publishing staff.
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Has the print book trumped digital? Beware of glib conclusions
Reports of the decline of the eBook are premature. The publishing industry is changing rapidly and data that appears robust tells us less than it once did.
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'Playboy' Brings Back Nudity
The decision appears to be an admission that the non-nude editorial policy, the centerpiece of a strategy to make the pub more advertiser-friendly, has failed to deliver the hoped-for financial turnaround.
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The Sun losses exceed £60m as ad slump and hacking charges take toll
The Sun made a loss of more than £60m last year as steep declines in print advertising, redundancy costs and phone-hacking charges battered the tabloid. Its stablemate the Times also slipped into the red, reporting a pretax loss of £5m in the year to 3 July, down from a profit of £8.8m in 2015, in part due to racking up £13.7m in redundancy restructuring costs. The Sun fared significantly worse, notching up a pretax loss of £62.8m for the same period last year, according to accounts filed at Companies House for its parent company News Group Newspapers.
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The Conversation: Behind the scenes: creative commons publishing
We believe in the free flow of information and proudly publish under creative commons.
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Online legal publishers squabble over the right to copyright the law
Two big-name legal research companies are battling in federal court over the right to exclusively publish the law—in this case, the Georgia Administrative Rules and Regulations. The lawsuit (PDF) comes as states across the nation partner with legal research companies to offer exclusive publishing and licensing deals for digitizing and making available online the states' reams of laws and regulations. The only problem is that the law is not copyrightable...
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Meet the Robin Hood of Science
How one researcher created a pirate bay for science more powerful than even libraries at top universities.
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10 Publishers Account For Half Of All Online News
The biggest online news publisher for the U.S. audience was MSN, owner of MSN.com, with just over 27 billion combined page views across mobile and desktop, followed by Disney Media Networks, owner of ESPN and ABC News, with 25.9 billion.
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Don’t feel guilty about buying used books: Writers won’t see a dime of that sale, but it’s the long game that counts
It's always good when consumers are aware of how creators get paid—but there's no shame in not buying new.
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Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America: WRITER BEWARE®
Writer Beware’s mission is to track, expose, and raise awareness of the prevalence of fraud and other questionable activities in and around the publishing industry.
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