Bowker Cuts Cost of ISBNs in US
Bowker, the agency that administer ISBNs in the United States, has cut its prices on ISBNs blocks. A block of 10 ISBNs is now $250 instead of $400. The Bowker website states that the price cut was made...
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Amazon Announces Important Kindle Program Changes
Amazon has recently announced two changes to its Kindle publishing program that will be of interest to self-published authors. 1] International authors now have access to Kindle publishing. Up until...
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Barnes & Noble Wants Your E-Book
The e-book self-publishing world is about to get a little more crowded. With the launch of Pubit! this summer, Barnes & Noble (B&N) has inserted itself directly into the publishing process,...
View ArticleAre E-readers The New Colour Printers?
UPDATE – July 13, 2010 - Well, it’s happened already. Sony just broke the $100 e-reader barrier. Looks like there will be e-readers for everyone this holiday season! – R.S. May 1st was a big day for...
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New Evidence for the Future of the Printed Book
Sometimes being a sci-fi geek has its benefits. It’s often said that not everything written about in science fiction exists, but everything that’s discovered in science existed first in science...
View ArticleWhen the Upward Spiral Turns Down
A key economic concept is that of spirals — trends that self-perpetuate. A spiral can happen, for example, when a product moves from early adoption amongst a select few to general adoption amongst a...
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What Dwindling Shelf Space Means for Self-Published Authors
The business of print publishing — producing physical books and shipping them here and there — has taken two more serious blows in the last month. H.B. Fenn, Canada’s largest book distributor, filed...
View ArticleWould You Turn Down a $500,000 Book Deal?
The blogosphere has been buzzing in the last month with news of two high-profile authors and their publishing choices. On the one hand: Barry Eisler, a bestselling thriller author, just turned down a...
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Amazon’s Publishing Program Picks Up Steam
All of you know Amazon as a seller of books. What you may not have heard outside of book circles is that Amazon is moving into publisher territory. Over the past two years, it has launched several...
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Barry Eisler Reveals Details of Amazon Publishing Deal
Remember Barry Eisler? He’s the bestselling thriller author who in March turned down a $500,000 deal with St. Martin’s Press in favor of self-publishing. Last week, at Book Expo America, Eisler...
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