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“Why Do Girls Have Breasts?” Redux
The Bookseller Children’s Conference is underway in London today and the CEO of Hachette Children’s Group, Murray Hill, has called on publishers to “act as agents of social change more than ever...
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Digital Change – Opportunities and Challenges Ahead
“Digitalization will fundamentally change society and economy as we know it,” says Alexander Markowetz in a post on Buch.de titled Digital Change. “In order to survive this change and to thrive in a...
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Publishing Brief – 28 September 2017
There’s so much happening in publishing right now it’s impossible to keep on top of it all, but some stories are too good to pass by without at least a quick mention here at The New Publishing...
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Publishing Brief – 3 October 2017
There’s so much happening in publishing right now it’s impossible to keep on top of it all, but some stories are too good to pass by without at least a quick mention here at The New Publishing...
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Analogue Publishing
The Harry Potter books have been translated into 68 languages and have sold 400 million. Or so says Pakistan Today, reporting on the new Harry Potter exhibition in London. That number is echoed by...
View ArticleTrad published author caught in KU scam. Amazon pulls her book and leaves...
It seems rarely a month passes without David Gaughran exposing how scammers are milking Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited, at the expense mainly of indie authors. Here, for example. Or here. And as often as...
View ArticleOut of Africa comes great fantasy, but a dark undercurrent of racism responds
With the current vogue for diversity in publishing comes, inevitably, cries of foul as author achievements are dismissed as concessions to ethnic origins and diversity quotas. One would think that...
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The Hot Sheet Reviewed (first November 2017 edition)
The Hot Sheet is a publishing industry news-sheet for authors, produced every two weeks by Porter Anderson and Jane Friedman, and reviewed here every other Sunday as one of the best twice-monthly...
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Never mind the US elections. Anobii hacked by the Russians
This might be a job for Robert Mueller. Or maybe not. Anobii (aka aNobii) has had an eventful history, from innovative start-up in 2006, just pre-dating Goodreads, to victim of Russian hackers in 2017....
View ArticleBritish publishing needs more working class stories, more diversity and more...
Phil Jones, editor of The Bookseller, blogs this week on the British Christmas trade. I stress British, because despite the many similarities between the US and UK book trades there are also...
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Beware the future. It’s closer than you think. AI and Publishing
Anyone who thinks AI won’t be able to write literature that’s as good as anything a human can produce within a couple of decades is deluding themselves. That was ALLi’s Dan Holloway over Christmas on...
View ArticleThe 2018 Prix Voltaire “freedom to publish” shortlist coincides with Trump’s...
Freedom to write and publish is an issue close to my heart, living as I do in The Gambia, West Africa, which one year ago this month emerged from a 22-year dictatorship. During that time freedom of...
View ArticleAmazon KDP’s new 50% royalty option. Or was it an error?
Speculation abounds that Amazon KDP is to introduce a third royalty tier of 50%, alongside its current 35% and 70% choices, after the 50% option appeared in the KDP dashboard of some authors. An author...
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The Hot Sheet Reviewed – first January 2018 edition
The Hot Sheet is a publishing industry news-sheet for authors, produced every two weeks by Porter Anderson and Jane Friedman, and reviewed here every other Sunday as one of the best bi-weekly industry...
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The Hot Sheet Reviewed – first February 2018 edition
The Hot Sheet is a publishing industry news-sheet for authors, produced every two weeks by Porter Anderson and Jane Friedman, and reviewed here every other Sunday as one of the best bi-weekly industry...
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Publishing News Round-Up 3 May 2018
It would be impossible to try cover even a fraction of the publishing news that lands on my e-desk each day, but there’s so much happening in our industry that passes unnoticed. So here’s a selection...
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Amazon expands UK imprint ambitions as A-Pub holds half the US top ten today....
At noon today (GMT) five of the top ten slots in the Kindle charts were taken by Lake Union (2), Montlake Romance (2) and Thomas & Mercer (1) – all publishing imprints of Amazon. With the launch of...
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Cockygate, a KU exodus, and indie author advocacy… The Hot Sheet reviewed
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GDPR. The Facebook scandal. Amid mounting privacy concerns, Data Guy...
It’s now several months since the January 2018 Author Earnings Report arrived. You can still find some of it on the Author Earnings site. But only some of it. Because within hours of the report going...
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New York eclipsed as the centre of global publishing gravity shifts...
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