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  810 readersAt the Edinburgh International Book Festival this weekend, Ewan Morrison set out his bleak vision of a publishing industry in terminal decline and the equally bleak future for writers. In a long article in the Guardian Newspaper yesterday, (link below) Ewan Morrison’s very depressing vision of what we are heading for in the world of writing

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  Writer Ewan Morrison decries social media promotion for e-books, failure of ACTA passage

  595 readersI had never heard of this Ewan Morrison person before blogging that story quoting him the other day, but all of a sudden it seems like he’s coming out of the woodwork everywhere. I saw a mention on the E-Book Community Mailing List of a column by him on The Guardian. It says it’s third

• Why Do Authors Choose Traditional Publishing or Self-Publishing?

  152 readers Join DBW for a FREE webcast on the topic of What Authors Want: Understanding Author Priorities in the Self-Publishing Era.  In a recent segment on NPR’s All Things Considered, future Hachette CEO Michael Pietsch speculates that authors choose to go with publishers over self-publishing because of “marketing.” Though Pietsch has many years of experience working with authors

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  Writer Jason McIntyre talks about self-publishing

  1961 readersThe Alexander G Public Relations blog has a fairly lengthy interview with self-publishing writer Jason McIntyre, whose works have been downloaded over 33,000 times so far. McIntyre has worked as an editor, writer, communications professional, graphic designer, commercial artist, webmaster, and more, and still works at these jobs in addition to his writing. Like so

• Need an advance for your book? Get your future readers to fund you!

  945 readersBack in the days when publishers where the only gateway to publish a book, writers received an advance upon signing their publishing contract. With the growing success of self-publishing, two things have happened. Advances from established publishers for unknown authors have shrunk, the plethora of new publishers do not offer advances and self-publishers, of course, not

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  Clashing perspectives: coming home to roost

  859 readers Ewan Morrison wrote about the future of publishing from the publisher’s and author’s perspectives. I somewhat share his bleak, perhaps apocalyptic, outlook for the future of the publishing industry (see “Are Books Dead, and Can Authors Survive?“; for “outsider’s” perspective, see Tony Cole’s discussion of Morrison’s article, ”Can Authors Survive in the Age of eReaders

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  Ebook publishing – Self-Publish or go with traditional publishers?

  2162 readersAs ebooks steadily take over the book market, the question of whether it is better for an author to self-publish or go through the traditional route of working with an established publisher becomes more and more relevant. Read more on Ebook publishing – Self-Publish or go with traditional publishers?…

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  Authors Taking New Looks at Old Books for E-Publishing (Video)

  290 readers One advantage e-booksellers have over traditional bricks-and-mortar booksellers is nearly infinite shelf space — and that’s good news for publishers and authors who want to revive back-list sales. In the print-publishing world, sales of titles that are years old and no longer top-of-mind for publishers’ marketing departments are almost non-existent. In the e-book world, publishers and

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  DBW Insights: Richard Nash

  2682 readers In this exclusive interview, Richard Nash, Founder and CEO of Cursor and Publisher of Red Lemonade, discusses copyright and nontraditional licensing; scalability; discoverability; and the relationship between author, agent, and publisher. From the interview: The traditional relationship between a publisher and an established writer can sometimes veer dangerously close to a zero-sum game. The agent tries to

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  The Obligatory Introduction: Meet TeleRead’s newest writer

  840 readersGreetings all! I’ve been a TeleRead reader for three or four years now, and I’m thrilled to finally be a contributing writer for my favorite blog. I’ve been reading e-books for close to 15 years now. My first “e-reader” was a Handspring Visor Deluxe (pictured at right). Anyone remember that sweet little device? 160 x