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leonie-mateer's picture
Feb.19.2013
  Wal-Mart, Target, K Mart – get your product onto retail shelves!   “As you walk down the isle of a mass retail store and look at the thousands of products on the shelves you can rest assured that every one of those products started with a vision” -excerpt from  The Caboodles...
andrew-q-lam's picture
Sep.18.2012
  The Occupy Wall Street movement began in New York last September and quickly spread around the country -- then, inevitably, in the age of instant information, the world. But just as quickly, it petered out. Here in San Francisco, the protest began the same week the iPhone 4S came out and...
dale-estey's picture
Jul.19.2012
This might be the turning point which is positive for everyone. The traditional (and huge) Penguin Publishing Empire (actually Pearson) has enveloped a self-publishing site into its corporate bosom. I hope this will be the beginning of the trend to have some sort of gate-keeper looking after self-...
dale-estey's picture
Mar.09.2012
Pottermore and JK Rowling and the whole Harry Potter crew will be open for full business on the Internet in April 2012. And what a business it is! The web site will be up and Harry Potter eBooks will be for sale. Just wave your wand.   (Photo: Chester Everglott / Pottermore FB)An image from...
dale-estey's picture
Sep.27.2011
Trident Media Group Launches eBook Division By Jason Boog   Trident Media Group, the literary agency representing Deepak Chopra, Paris Hilton,Jon Stewart, Tori Spelling and a long list of other authors, has launched Trident E-Book Operations. The new division...
dale-estey's picture
Feb.09.2011
  H.B. Fenn, Canada's Largest Distributor, Goes Bankrupt by Leigh Anne Williams Canadian publishing was shaken yesterday by news that H.B. Fenn and Company, Canada’s largest book distributor and a stalwart in the industry for 30 years, had begun bankruptcy proceedings and appears to be...
thomas-burchfield's picture
Dec.10.2010
 A version of this essay, with photos, can be found at my official web page, A Curious Man.   “Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot!” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange” My wife’s smoke-sweet voice sings through the door ahead of her one cold mid-November night: “...
thomas-burchfield's picture
Dec.10.2010
 A version of this essay, with photos, can be found at my official web page, A Curious Man.   “Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot!” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange” My wife’s smoke-sweet voice sings through the door ahead of her one cold mid-November night: “...
david-niall-wilson's picture
Aug.18.2010
I’ve been slowly building a publishing company, Crossroad Press, as many of you know.  In fact, it’s largely responsible for my being here a lot less often.  I’m pretty busy with it.  Since I started doing audiobooks, I’ve been approached several times about whether I could do people’s books in...
jason-thibeault's picture
Jul.27.2010
Now available at lulu.com: http://bit.ly/asrOXb. We will be launching the other series "compilation" books (issues 1-6) later in the week and plan on doing this each time we have 6 issues completed. There's a good chance we will also do a print version for the entire volume.