Best of BTB: “50 Shades” and More of Self-Publishing

Dec 26, 2012 | Best of VOC, Indie Publishing

Recorded this summer at uPublishU, the day-long self-publishing pre-conference program of BookExpo. Featuring Jenny Pedroza, co-founder of the Writers Coffee Shop; Mark Coker, Founder, Smashwords; Sandra (Sandy) Poirier-Diaz, President, Smith Publicity, Incorporated;...

Book Business Set to ‘Transform and Roll Out’

Dec 25, 2012 | Indie Publishing, News

Across publishing – once an industry virtually unchanged for centuries – revolutionary transformation is under way. Instead of an industry reliant upon middlemen and suppliers, publishing is becoming a service consumers can purchase. In a newly-published white paper...

Self Publishing Across Multiple Formats

Dec 23, 2012 | Indie Publishing, News

Recorded earlier this month at the Mediabistro-organized MediaApp Summit, December 2012, and featuring Jason Boog, Editor, Mediabistro Publishing, Amy Martin Product Marketing Manager, Wattpad, and Christopher Kenneally, Copyright Clearance Center. Noting the...

Going, going gone? Whither The News Business

Dec 16, 2012 | News

Is the news business going the way of the music business? By special arrangement with the Bernard L. Schwartz Center for Media, Public Policy & Education, Fordham University, New York City, Copyright Clearance Center presents a discussion on the future of news...

Publishing Education in Bits & Bytes

Dec 14, 2012 | News

The digital tide is high – and rising – at leading publishing education programs. A Publishers Weekly survey finds more courses than ever on metadata and SEO, with the number of graduates finding digital-driven jobs growing, too. “In 2007, just 6% of NYU [publishing...

Self-Publishing Gets Respect

Dec 9, 2012 | News

As the success of 50 Shades of Grey makes clear, the book business has made piece with the self-published author. Now one of the best-selling authors in history, E.L. James first made her work available to readers via non-traditional, self-publishing routes. James is...

Not Everyone Is An E.L. James Fan

Dec 7, 2012 | News

If you think 40 million readers can’t be wrong, think again. On Monday, Publishers Weekly named 50 Shades of Grey author E.L. James as the magazine’s “Person of the Year.” That award was not an award for the book, though it surely sounded like that to many critics who...

Roger Rabbit Returns

Dec 2, 2012 | News

A year from now, America will serve Tom Turkey for Thanksgiving, with Roger Rabbit on the menu for the next day, Black Friday 2013. In an exclusive Beyond the Book interview, Celina Summers, editorial director at digital start-up Musa Publishing, announces the...

Librarians To Confront E-Book Mess: The Week Ahead

Nov 30, 2012 | News

As 2012 draws to its end, magazines and media proclaim the year’s winners and losers. Publishers Weekly gets the party started early next week with its announcement of book publishing’s “Person of the Year” for 2012. In the same issue, PW previews the upcoming...

BTB #330: Miami Marks Self-Publishing Year

Nov 25, 2012 | Events

As the year ends, authors, publishers and readers are recalling 2012 as a watershed moment: Self-publishing has shaken its “vanity press” origins and moved mainstream. For the recently-concluded Miami Book Fair, Copyright Clearance Center presented a special panel to...