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  SURVEY: What Tool Is Most Effective for Promoting Your Book?

  1139 readersBy Edward Nawotka Today’s feature story on “Discoverability and the New World of Book PR” offers several tips on getting the best results from your personal efforts at self promotion. Of course, some means are more effective than others. Which have you found to the be the most successful for promoting your work? (Pick your top

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  SURVEY: What New Publishing Business Model Excites You the Most?

  1513 readersCrowd-sourced publishing? Super cheap e-books? Book discovery, social reading retail sites? Which has the most long-term viability? By Edward Nawotka There have been dozens of new publishing-related business models created over the past 12-24 months. Which excited you the most? Which do you think has the most long-term viability. Naturally, we can’t offer a list of all

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  SURVEY: What Is the Top Issue for Frankfurt 2011?

  607 readersBy Edward Nawotka In today’s feature story about previewing what’s on the mind of publishers and literary agents from the UK for Frankfurt 2011, several issues are identified, including e-books, royalties for e-books, territoriality, piracy, agents as publishers, publishers as booksellers. Most of these are perennial issues, save for the issue of agents as publishers, which

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  SURVEY: Rate Kindle as a Disruptive Force in Overseas E-book Markets

  995 readersBy Edward Nawotka Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. When it comes to e-books, few will disagree that Amazon has the strongest brand going. In many ways the word “Kindle” has already become a metonym for “easy-to-use e-reader,” and many people around the world

• SURVEY: Should Ad-Supported Textbooks Become Standard?

  1038 readersCollege stadiums, classrooms, and cafeterias are plastered with ads by corporations, why not textbooks? By Edward Nawotka Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Every year college students complain about the high cost of textbooks. They feel its an insult to have to spend several hundred,

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  Poll: Who is Driving the Digital Transition in Publishing?

  3858 readersBy Hannah Johnson Brian Wafawarowa, Executive Director of Publishers’ Association of South Africa, told Publishing Perspectives: I do not think that the e-book shift is being proactively driven by publishers, but by consumer demand. The shift to or inclusion of e-books is still something publishers begrudge. Publishers are comfortable with the analog book and would like to

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  SURVEY: Is the E-ink E-reader Dead in Developing Markets?

  760 readersBy Edward Nawotka Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Today’s feature story looks at the launch of Iba, a new e-reading platform in Brazil. At present the company is focusing its efforts on both tablets and PCs, bypassing the traditional e-reader. Increasingly, in the

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  Following Recent Events, Will You Explore the Mid-East and North Africa for Opportunities in 2011?

  872 readersThe landscape for publishers to explore the Middle East and North Africa for opportunities has never been better. By Edward Nawotka Earlier this month on Publishing Perspectives Egyptian e-book publisher Ramy Habeeb argued that Western publishers had a responsibility to bring “pluralism” to the Middle East publishing community, something they can do by participating in the rebirth of the

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  Striking Back Against the Amazon Empire

  591 readers“We know the location of the Death Star!” Editorial by Lisa Buchan, Sparkabook WELLINGTON, NZ: The Amazon Empire may swallow the entire publishing ecosystem in a series of gulps. It started by squeezing distributors (IPG is the most recent in a string over the last few Lisa Buchan years), and it has created a large and rapidly growing publishing business

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  Why Writers Need Publishers…Or Do They?

  704 readersThe value of traditional publishers is easy to under-rate. By Lisa Buchan Lisa Buchan WELLINGTON, NZ: During a recent conference I attended on Publishing Futures, the discussion touched on the global political views of the “abolish copyright” movement. This political lobby group asserts that copyright and the publishers battling to uphold it are getting in the way of