20 things you need to know before you self-publish

20 things you need to know before you self-publish
The Guardian (blog)
Self-publishing can get your work to market quickly, giving yourself more time to promote yourself as an academic, using your publication as a tool: Ebooks give you instant global reach, people thousands of miles away can be reading your findings ...

The Guardian (blog)

E-books sales surge after holidays
USA TODAY
Since then, she has bought $100 worth of e-books — from histories to mysteries — and wonders, "Am I a traitor to printed books?" McCosh is part of an unprecedented surge in e-book sales that's changing publishing and challenging traditional ...

USA TODAY

Safari Books Online Acquires Web Developer Threepress to Expand eContent Delivery
MarketWatch (press release)
Ms. Daly has had a long and successful record of providing strategy and software for publishers,authors and vendors, working in both the web and publishing industries. In 2008, she developed Bookworm, one of the first open source EPUB readers, ...

Chinese authors sue Apple for copyright infringement: report
Reuters
| SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A group of Chinese authors has sued Apple Inc for 11.9 million yuan ($1.9 million) in compensation for allegedly providing copyright-infringing books for download through its online store, Chinese financial magazine Caixin ...

Chinua Achebe leads Nigerian authors' fuel subsidy protest
The Guardian
Chinua Achebe is heading a group of 38 Nigerian authors who are throwing their weight behind mass protests in the country at the government's withdrawal of the state fuel subsidy. The internationally acclaimed, bestselling novelist Achebe was joined by ...

The Guardian

E-books: Libraries adapting to popular format
phillyBurbs.com
The Burlington County Library System began offering e-books in 2003, and was one of the first public libraries in the country to offer the service. On Wednesday, the Mount Laurel Library is hosting an "EBook Walk-In Clinic" from 12:30 to 2:30 pm The ...

Progressive Publishing Alternatives Makes New Editorial Tools Available to ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
These tools can be referenced by editors, authors, reviewers, and publishers to help them establish editorial and production strategies for their publications. Editing and Proofreading Marks - Available since the 1990s, this tool has been providing ...

Could Selling Used eBooks Work? - eBookNewser
mediabistro.com
Yes, it was nice in the days of print to resell records, CDs, DVDs and books that you have already listened to or read, and to pick up used copies of other people's old media at a cheaper price. But how do you do this with digital content? ...

Missing Christian Velten inspires life story books
BBC News
With her husband Grant, she has set up Red Letter Books to help people record their memories and experiences. Mr Velten, a zoology graduate and seasoned traveller, disappeared while tracing the route of the River Niger, but despite many investigations...

BBC News

Combined markets for STM publishing grew 3.4 percent in 2011, says Simba ...
Knowledgespeak
Media and publishing forecast firm Simba Information, US, recently released a report that provides detailed market information for scientific, technical and medical (STM) publishing, segmented by delivery medium - journals, books, online services, ...

Monks' books Festival ticket
Herald.ie
By Niall Cronin NOEL MEADE'S Monksland took the feature Slaney Novice Hurdle at Naas yesterday, booking his ticket for the Cheltenham Festival in the process and justifying the faith of his trainer. Immediately afterwards, Meade said: "That went ...

Authors Ibrahim Abdel-Meguid and Ahmed El-Khamisi likely winners of Sawiris Award
Ahram Online
El-Khamisi is a journalist and writer with some 12 published books ranging from political analysis to travel literature. The Sawiris Cultural Award was launched seven years ago, in 2005, as an award for fiction writing, before broadening to include an ...

Czech writer helped publish, distribute books in Communist Czechoslovakia
Bend Bulletin
In addition to writing many books, Skvorecky played a significant part in publishing the works of other Czech dissident writers. He and his wife, Zdena Salivarova, were the first publishers of Milan Kundera's “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” as well ...

Book review 'Believing the Lie': a new Inspector Lynley mystery
The Seattle Times
9, at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, and Jan. 22 at the Barnes & Noble in Silverdale's Kitsap Mall. By by Adam Woog Author Elizabeth George, photographed at her Whidbey Island home in 2009. The author of "Believing the Lie" will read at 7 pm ...

A heroic effort underway in Egypt to save damaged books, manuscripts
Public Radio International PRI
Inside were hundreds, thousands, of rare books and manuscripts. Many were burned or inundated with water as firefighters tried to extinguish the fire. Now preservationists are trying to save what's left. Clashes between pro-democracy protesters and ...

State of donation: Oxfam takes over the high street
Telegraph.co.uk
Anoosh Chakelian investigates how Oxfam is challenging the bookselling giants – and which unwanted authors we are dumping after Christmas. Not a charity case: Anne Paterson, the manager of Oxfam Books in Turnham Green, West London. ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Harry Potter director Chris Columbus to write children's fantasy books
The Guardian
After directing and producing the first two Harry Potter films, Hollywood VIP Chris Columbus is now set to unleash his own fantasy adventure series for children on the world of books. Columbus, who began his career by writing Gremlins and Goonies and...

The Guardian

Children Prefer eBooks: Study - eBookNewser
mediabistro.com
By Dianna Dilworth on January 9, 2012 3:11 PM According to a new report from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, kids prefer to eBooks to print books. The Center observed 24 families with children ages 3-6 for this “QuickStudy” in the ...

New Year's Resolution Reading List: 9 Books on Reading and Writing
The Atlantic
And since the number of books written about reading and writing likely far exceeds the reading capacity of a single human lifetime, this omnibus couldn't be—shouldn't be—an exhaustive list. It is, instead, a collection of timeless texts bound to ...

The Atlantic

New Books: "Betrayal" is a compelling narrative
TCPalm
By Robert Fitzpatrick with Jon Land Retired FBI agent Fitzpatrick tells his compelling story of trying to bring Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger to justice in "Betrayal," written with Land. Fitzpatrick's career was filled with multiple ...

Rare Books to Take Stock By
PR Newswire UK (press release)
Shapero Rare Books is proud to announce the release of a catalogue of fascinating books charting the history of the stock market. The catalogue comprises of a collection of 60 titles sourced from all over the globe, with a focus on Wall Street. ...

Nook Books on Hook, Investors Shook
The Fiscal Times
Not only that, but Barnes & Noble will have made a public declaration that it is sticking to the traditional formula when it comes to book retailing, even as the publishing industry is the midst of a massive Internet-fueled upheaval. ...

The Fiscal Times

MIT author's work among 85 QED-approved ebooks
MIT News
The QED, which stands for Quality, Excellence, Design, is a quality assurance program that was conducted on all ebooks entered into the Publishing Innovation Awards (PIAs), an awards program sponsored by Constellation honoring the most innovative ...

SAE International and Artech House Agree to Strategic Publishing Partnership
MarketWatch (press release)
9, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- SAE International and Artech House have agreed to a strategic partnership that will enable SAE International to sell selected Artech House books. From Engineer to Manager: Mastering the Transition - The book teaches ...

University of Michigan eyes e-books as a way to lower soaring textbook costs
AnnArbor.com
At a Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs meeting in late November, Courant said that if the university can create partnerships with textbook publishers, the school could possibly negotiate low, bulk prices and make e-books available to ...

Four books look at dyslexia
The Boston Globe
“In the Mind's Eye: Creative Visual Thinkers, Gifted Dyslexics, and the Rise of Visual Technologies,'' first published in 1997 (second edition, Prometheus Books, 2009), even mentions one renowned non-dyslexic researcher at the National Institutes of ...

Kno Surpasses 45 Publisher Agreements
MarketWatch (press release)
Since September 2011, 15 additional publishing companies have established partnerships with Kno and added their critical books and academic content to Kno's catalog. These new relationships include: Morton Publishing, The MIT Press, Oklahoma Career ...

Digital Publisher Safari Books Online Acquires Threepress, Ibis ...
By Robin Wauters
... to deliver customized subscription book, video and learning content online and on mobile devices, thanks to Threepress' in-house expertise when it comes to EPUB tools, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and other digital publishing technologies. ... The premise was simple: compile the best technologybooks from the leading authors and publishers into an online database that IT, programming, and design professionals could quickly and easily search for reliable, definitive answers to ...
TechCrunch

19 free ebooks on journalism (for your Xmas Kindle) | Online ...
By Paul Bradshaw
As many readers of this blog will have received a Kindle for Christmas I thought I should share my list of the free ebooks that I recommend stocking up. ... Those are just the books that spring to mind or that I've previously bookmarked. Are there ...
Online Journalism Blog

Two opinions on the state of science publishing | Watts Up With That?
By Anthony Watts
At the same time, it is important to Nature Geoscience and fellow Nature journals that the scientific debate does not stop while a paper is under consideration. This principle also remains: we want our authors to present and discuss their results ...
Watts Up With That?

For Reading and Learning, Kids Prefer E-Books to Print Books ...
By Jeremy Greenfield
About 7.4% of children's books sold in the first three quarters of 2011 were digital (excluding young adult titles), according to Bowker, a company that tracks the book industry. That compares with 13.5% across all book publishing segments ...
Digital Book World

Safari Books Buys Threepress, Forges Ahead In Digital Publishing ...
By Gregory T. Huang
What is the future of electronic books and digital publishing in Boston? We might be getting a glimpse of it today. The news is that Safari Books Online, a.
Xconomy

New Year's Resolution Reading List: 9 Essential Books on Reading ...
By Maria Popova
And since the number of books written about reading and writing likely far exceeds the reading capacity of a single human lifetime, this omnibus couldn't be — shouldn't be — an exhaustive list. It is, instead, a collection of timeless texts bound ...
Brain Pickings

Announcing a new project: LBC Books | Anarchist news dot org
By worker
From LBC Books. LBC Books is the new publishing arm of Little Black Cart distribution. We will bepublishing at least one new book a month and will be helping a variety of other publishing groups with their material. We imagine a diverse and ...
Anarchist news dot org

10 Bike Books We Want to Read Now : TreeHugger
By A.K. Streeter
These 10 books cover everything from basic maintenance to true adventure tales.
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The Thin Veil: Advice for Authors
By Brandon Vogt
Seth is the quintessential guru, He has a personal blog, and writes over at The Domino Project, where every day he offers pithy insights on writing, art, marketing, and eBooks. Seth likes to subvert conventional ... Today, he turns that whimsical worldview to publishing. His article titled "Advice for ...There's a worldview that's quite common that says that people who write books know what they are talking about and that a book confers some sort of authority. 2. The timeframe for the ...
The Thin Veil

Complete Books On Tape Now Available Through Mackin | eSchool ...
By eSchool News
(January 6, 2012) – Mackin Educational Resources is now providing the Books On Tape collection of nearly 1200 audiobooks in both CD and. ... With a vast range of popular titles for preschool through adult, these audiobooks are read by authors, professional narrators and celebrities. ... Known for its high commitment to customer care and customization, Mackin provides print books, ebooks, online databases, audiobooks, video resources and more to schools around the globe. ...
eSchool News

Best Books Outliers « Heavy Medal: A Mock Newbery Blog
By Jonathan Hunt
Each review journal has books that are unique to its own best of the year list. Many of these booksgot starred reviews from multiple journals, but others were championed solely by one publication. Since there is no correlation between my ...
Heavy Medal: A Mock Newbery Blog

Four “must-read” science-fiction books - Sawyer
By Rob
Four “must-read” science-fiction books ... THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE by Audrey Niffenegger (Vintage): Sometimes when mainstream authors dabble in SF it goes wrong, like Margaret Atwood's ORYX AND CRAKE. Other times, it's a ...
Robert J. Sawyer

Importance of Big Books for Reading - 36stairsfilm.com
By philip
Did you actually ever think about why little ones have big books? Small children are little so it's more appropriate that publications are generally smaller for uncomplicated kid handling. Authors and editors have explanation why they do that. ...
36stairsfilm.com

Biblica Books - InterVarsity Press
With the addition of exciting titles like Operation World and The Future of the Global Church, we will now be publishing an even greater selection of books to help ...
www.ivpress.com/biblica/

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