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Publishing

What do authors need?

October 28, 2009

Mark Coker, founder and CEO of dynamic e-book publishing company Smashwords, is asking “do authors still need publishers?” In his article for The Huffington Post, Mark argues that an author with the fanbase and platform of Stephen King, or J.K. Rowling or  Dan Brown, could get a much better return from the marketplace by self-publishing. Certainly this [...]

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It’s not digital publishing. It’s publishing.

October 24, 2009

Richard Nash has a great round-up of the conversations and opinions about digital that took place all over this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair. …we’re not replacing one static-priced unit (pBook) with another static-priced unit (eBook), but finding that our single massive unidirectional pBook supply chain is now just one component of a tremendously variegated set [...]

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New Institute for the Future of the Book to launch in Australia 2010

August 27, 2009

Today at the Melbourne Writers Festival I had the happy task of announcing that my organisation, Queensland Writers Centre, will launch a new affiliate of The Institute for the Future of the Book in Australia in 2010. if:book Australia will promote new forms of digital publishing and explore ways to boost connections between writers and [...]

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The Eleven Axioms of 21st Century Book Publishing

August 17, 2009

Mike Cane at The eBook Test has published eleven aphorisms, all of which are sensible and all of which modern publishers should take note: 1 – All publishers are information engines, not producers of objects 2 – A book is no longer a thing in itself 3 – Connections between books add value to all [...]

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Open platforms deserve open content

August 15, 2009

Over at Techdirt, Michael Masnick has applauded Sony for supporting the open ePub format on its ebook reader. Masnick points out, and he’s right, that openness can be a competitive advantage, especially against an established competitor with a closed system, such as Amazon Kindle. It always gives me a moment’s pause when tech or publishing [...]

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