Fan fiction is an interesting genre. You start with characters that already exist from movies or television shows and create new stories around them. Admittedly, I read my share of fan fiction. Sometimes a show’s run ends too early, or a video game pulls me i…

80% of all cool phones of the year have been launched and the rest probably include the Galaxy Note III and iPhone 5S, plus maybe a Nexus. Well, the Note III fits rather in the phablet category and today we’ve got a fresh rumor related to it: a benchmark that…

A recently published report reveals that Nokia could be preparing a phablet to launch in 2014. Speculation from earlier this month revealed that the Finnish device maker could work on a device that’s as big as 6 inches in diagonal.

Said phablet could co…

Never underestimate the power and glory of the American ego. Granted, it can show its bizarre sides—for example, in the antics and hairdo of Donald Trump. And yet I see the good, too. We have the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Bill & Melinda Ga…

Looking for father’s day gift ideas? Naturally, we suggest a Father’s Day photo book made by you. To help, we’ve assembled some of our favorite Father’s Day books for a little inspiration (just don’t forget our Father̵…

Earlier I wrote about the possibility that the new channels of e-book marketing might soon be saturated by the efforts of a new generation of publicists, agents and book promoters—once these had mastered social media and other techniques for getting thei…

Ahead of last year’s FutureBook Innovation Workshop, we published our ‘ten challenges to innovation in publishing’.…

An independent children’s publisher has decided to cut ties with Amazon. Barefoot Books has pulled its books from the online retail giant, claiming that it wants to focus on more grassroots types of campaigns, it said in a press release on Digital Book Worl…

Penguin has proposed to pay $75 million to states and consumers to settle the class action lawsuit alleging ebook price manipulation.…

An interesting report is circulating the book blogs, alleging that e-book sales in Canada are down almost five percent. I’ve seen reporting on the Booknet Canada report on at least 3 blogs (for example, here and here and here, but nob…

The Air Force is hoping to lighten its paper usage with 18,000 iPads over the next ten years. The cost savings could bring in as much as $50 million in revenue, some of its as reduced fuel costs. Currently, paper manuals can weigh as much as 30-40 pounds of paper fo…

Expanding its vast array of services catering to authors, Amazon has launched Kindle Worlds, a fan fiction platform that will allow authors to reap financial rewards writing stories based on already existing characters and settings.Acting as a conduit fo…

Target today issued a major update to its Target for iPad app which brings its advertising circulars directly to its retail customers (without the need for newspapers, I might add).

Version 2.0 is brings a new navigation panel, redesigned home screen and the…

The Gracie Awards were held last night in Los Angeles, celebrating “outstanding programming for, by and about women.”
GalleyCat Editor Jason Boog… was there on the red carpet chatting with established authors about how emerging writers can succeed i