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Saturday 11th February |
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Feature Items
Startup Profile - Widescript Widescript make a high-quality cloud-based e-book reader for publishers
The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores In The World Bookstores so beautiful they're worth getting out of the house (or the country) to visit
Will Amazon.com Stores Be Good For The Book Industry? Amazon analysts think that investing in physical storefronts would be a bad way for Amazon to derive good return on investment
How Comics Are Adapting To Hard Times A demand for nostalgic items and new technology have boosted the comic book industry
The Real Cost Of Library Cuts What do we really stand to lose by cutting funding to our local libraries?
Apple Vs Amazon In Ereader Format Smackdown Two rich, powerful and mighty West Coast tech companies could soon end up as gate-keepers to the world's literary works
Copyright: The Amen Break Are open rights activists really in favour of returning to the age of the Victorian gentleman artist? Do they really want to undermine the creative input of those outside of the elite? That is the inevitable consequence of unsupported creativity
It's Good To Be Back This flat earth journalism helped create a sense that digital distribution of books had finally tipped over
Are Magazines Just Dead Wood? The ease of digital publishing has led many to predict the imminent demise of the printed magazine. But Thomas Marks finds that a host of beautifully produced small magazines are bucking the trend
Barcelona's Blackie Books: Pretty Books For The Apocalypse A surprisingly successful independent publisher of cult fiction, poetry, and illustration
A Brief History Of Blurbs The excesses and scandals of contemporary blurbing, book and otherwise, are well-documented
Australian Book Industry 2011 Surviving REDgroup crisis and not doing badly, thanks
A Lifetime Of Books, And I Can't Give Them Away Is no one interested in taking my 20,000-book library off my hands?
Selling Books By Their Gilded Covers Publishers are giving old-fashioned print books a makeover.
Writers Bid To Revive Letter-writing Famous names including Dave Eggers are offering to write letters to subscribers on a weekly basis
Time for publishers to get (even more) social Establishing your company's brand and those of your authors on Google+ just rocketed to the top of your 'To Do' list
I am not Cormac McCarthy An Unpublished Novelist's Week as Fake Cormac McCarthy
Lost In Transition ISBN, ISSN, BIC and BISC codes and jacket images: do they still matter as much in the digital and direct marketing era?
How Kobo Plans To Launch In 12 New Countries A Year The key is local operators who understand local markets
A Self-help Rights Guide For Independent Publishers Book explains how success is possible "based on an independent model."
Combining The Television And Publishing Mindset "The cost structure for us to get into this is different than for a publisher...it's all sunk costs."
The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr. Morris Lessmore The Oscar-Nominated Short About Flying Books
The Big Reasons Indie Authors Aren't Taken Seriously By all indications, you'd expect that readers and traditional media alike would be wrapping their arms collectively around indie authors and their books
Perhaps The Greatest Comics Book Store In The World BD Spirit in Paris is not your ordinary bookshop
Adam Croft: How To Sell Over 130,000 Self-published E-books Without any marketing budget or the services of a publisher |
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