Publishing

Jun. 28, 2011

The Death of Print

The sales figures for April 2011 are in and the PW headline says it all: digital jumps, print plummets.

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Apr. 6, 2011

The end of the shy author?

Laura Miller wonders about what is lost in the new publishing model of author-as-promoter. (link)

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Mar. 22, 2011

Seth Godin: Ten Bestsellers

Seth Godin’s memorable presentation at the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference in February 2008: *10 Bestsellers: Using New Media, New Marketing, and New Thinking to Create 10 Bestselling Books.* (video)

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Mar. 4, 2011

Neil Gaiman: Web piracy is good publicity

Neil Gaiman on the benefit to authors of having their work pirated on the web. It turns out, it’s good publicity.

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Feb. 21, 2011

Copyright Run Amok

A futile effort to secure reprint rights for an epigram from H.G. Wells has me steaming about the excesses of copyright law.

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Sep. 13, 2010

An interview with Lee Child and Kate Miciak

A very interesting interview hosted by novelist Laurie R. King with Lee Child and Bantam-Dell editor Kate Miciak, who edits both of them. (Kate edits me, too.) I’m late stumbling across this — the interview was broadcast last October at Blog Talk Radio — but it is well worth a listen if you’re interested in [...]

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Aug. 22, 2010

Why the novel will survive the disappearance of the book

Media evolution, of course, does claim casualties. But most often, these are means of distribution or storage, especially physical ones that can be transformed into digital bits. Photographic film is supplanted, but people take more pictures than ever. CD’s no longer dominate, as music is more and more distributed online. “Books, magazines and newspapers are [...]

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Feb. 27, 2010

How to design a book advertisement

An advertising copywriter has a thought about how to improve ads for books.

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Feb. 11, 2010

The Perils of Advertising

Rummaging through my computer recently, I came across this ad (PDF) for The Strangler. It ran in the New York Times and the Boston Globe on February 6, 2007, and in the weekly Boston Phoenix at the same time. There was a radio spot airing that week, as well, which was very fun to hear [...]

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