Clik here to view.
‘Publishing Goes Pop,’ Part 1: Can Reading Find True Fandom At BookCon?
“Publishing Goes Pop” panelists in Berlin chat before going on stage. From left, Michael Bhaskar, Lance Fensterman, Nathan Hull, Andreas Gall, with Publishing Perspectives editor Edward Nawotka. Image:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Putting Readers First’ At BEA: Gatekeepers, Curators, And ‘Too Many Books’
The curators arrive: Fans at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York enter BookCon this weekend. Image: Porter Anderson ‘Readers Are The Power Brokers Who Matter Most’ Readers decide. Readers come...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Are Boys Not Reading More? And Is Publishing Addressing The Crisis?
iStockphoto / CREATISTA ‘We Are Not Creating Male Readers’ I would suggest to you that we have shared responsibility here — teachers, parents, authors, and publishers. Literacy is the kingpin skill of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In Self-Publishing, The Gatekeepers Are Dead. Long Live The Gatekeepers!
iStockphoto / rolindust ‘To Establish Trust With Readers’ Readers aren’t all the same. Readers, in fact, are very different from one another. Some only want to read what everyone else is reading, so...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Will We Ever Be Able To Trust Online Reviews?
iStockphoto / Natee127 ‘Fake Reviews Are Still Rife’ Three summers ago, in August 2012, one of the hottest stories of the year came from the book-retail sector. The author John Locke had confirmed to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
When Authors Yell ‘Everybody Into The Pool!’: Another Viewpoint
iStockphoto: AzmanL What Writers Say To Agents After The Party Many types of comments are generously added to articles, of course, here at Thought Catalog and in other places. It’s a form of sharing,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Is Online Life Real Life? Ask E.L. James. No, Ask Chuck Wendig
iStockphoto / EHStock One Big Gray (Not Grey) Area Of Rage Online is IRL. It’s all real. This is all really happening… It’s not a show, no matter how much we want it to be. That’s the author Chuck...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fair Contracts For Authors: Don’t Let Go Of Your Copyright
iStockphoto / Ociacia Novelists Inc. Plans Authors Guild Session There’s news this week from the roughly 900-member Novelists Inc. (NINC) organization that the Authors Guild will present a special...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reader Analytics: Not All Authors Want To Know
iStockphoto / tinors Your Soul Vs. Data? When Jellybooks’ Andrew Rhomberg wrote at Digital Book World recently about publishers having a Fear of Data in an age of digital metrics, I thought that taking...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Setting A Compass: Those FutureBook Manifestos In A Storm-Tossed Industry
Credit: iStockphoto / Elena Belozorova Sinking Into The Pubslush Years into publishing’s encounter with the digital dynamic, it’s not as if anything is holding still, is it? A kind of heaving grace is...
View Article