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Sep.28.2010
Authors Feel Pinch in Age of E-Books
By JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG
Credit: Matt Wright-Steel for the Wall Street Journal
Author John Pipkin worries about the e-book business model: 'I've had to rethink my plans in terms of supporting my family full time as a writer.'
When literary agent Sarah...
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Sep.28.2010
Rosetta Books Announces New Higher E-Book Royalty Rate By Craig Morgan Teicher
E-book publisher Rosetta Books announced what it calls the “highest industry standard e-book royalty rate” yesterday. The new royalty terms give Rosetta authors 50% of net receipts on the first 2,500 copies of...
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Sep.25.2010
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E-book Sales Jump 150% in July
After increasing by “only” 118% in June, e-book sales jumped 150.2%, to $40.8 million, at the 14 publishers that report e-book sales in July. Sales for the first seven months of...
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Sep.21.2010
Fry says bookshops could go the way of blacksmiths
16.09.10 | Philip Jones
Stephen Fry has predicted that there will be a "hell of a culling" of traditional bookstores as a result of the increasing adoption of iPads and ebooks, but added that some will survive. Fry was responding to...
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Sep.20.2010
How did Google post an embargoed book? Why can’t you get library books on the Kindle? Why free speech isn’t free when you pull a crazy Koran burning stunt. Plus, the real reasons why you were rejected. And 12 people who are changing publishing. These and other writing and publishing headlines...
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Sep.14.2010
Donna McDine is an award-winning children's author whose stories have been featured in multiple print and online publications. Her first book, The Golden Pathway, is about a boy who befriends a slave during the civil war. It is an illustrated story book for older readers (ages 9-12)....
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Sep.10.2010
Of Two Minds About Books Yana Paskova for The New York Times
Alexandra Ringe, right, an editor, and her husband, Jim Hanas, a fiction writer, both 41, fell in love over books.
By MATT RICHTEL and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
SAN FRANCISCO — Auriane and Sebastien de Halleux are at sharp odds over “The Girl...
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Aug.31.2010
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Espresso Book Machine Spreads to Bookstores By Maryann Yin
A new method to stay competitive in the digital age for physical-product book merchants has emerged--the Espresso Book Machine (featured in the...
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Aug.31.2010
Which major reviewing publication is accused of discrimination? Why the Wylie deal with Random leaves the issue of who owns ebook rights to older books unanswered. And how writers really get paid with traditional and real publishing. Plus, I'm interviewed on preventing workplace violence. These...
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Aug.29.2010
The first printed books came with a question: What do you do with these things?
By Tom Scocca
In the beginning, before there was such a thing as a Gutenberg Bible, Johannes Gutenberg laid out his rows of metal type and brushed them with ink and, using the mechanism that would change the...
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