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Is Authonomy authentic?

January 16, 2009

Bren MacDibble alerted me on Facebook to  some grumblings about HarperCollins’ Authonomy site. Authonomy participant, Alexander McNabb, fought his way to a top 5 ranking on the site, spurred on by the promise that each month HarperCollins would read the Top 5 ranked manuscripts. What he got was not what he expected. But the HC review [...]

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Not your mother’s iTunes

January 7, 2009

Jamseed is the first official “coolest thing I’ve seen all year” for 2009.   I found out about it via this short essay on the Harvard Business blog by Soft Skull’s Richard Nash. For most of human existence the output of art could never keep up with the demand. I believe that is now changing, [...]

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Where the bloody hell are you?

January 7, 2009

                  Jess Haberman has been musing about where to base herself as a publisher. I find this fascinating because I live in a large Australian state that is very decentralized. Quick geography lesson: Australia is about the same size in land area as the continental United States, but with [...]

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Publisher as brand?

October 4, 2008

Recently the friendly-looking team at HarperStudio asked a question on their blog, The 26th Story, about whether to invest in a full-featured website or keep up the blog. Since they invited input, I weighed in with an oft-quoted phrase in the industry: “The author is the brand”. The general idea (which someone else much smarter than I [...]

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How do you pitch digital?

September 12, 2008

There are pretty tried and true methods of getting a publisher to look at your book manuscript. There are only so many pathways. You write a manuscript and either take your chances in the slush, find yourself an agent, or more rarely, leverage a contact or referral that gets your manuscript in front of someone who can [...]

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