Truly, the reasons for the migration from bound books to e-books (at least for now in the mission statement of Sullivan Street Press) has more to do with the environment than with the love of technology.
Oh yes, we love new gadgets as much as anyone and think long and hard about buying an iPad in [...]

I just want to send out a huge and public “Thank you” to fellow IndieBookMan blogger and Friend Deborah Emin. As I have had to step away from this blog for a short time, Deborah has really stepped up and posted some wonderful stuff.
I can’t say enough how much I appreciate this, and I [...]

There is this e-newsletter called Publishing Perspectives and while a good deal of the information there is great for those of us who want an international perspective on publishing trends, there are days . . .
So, now this fellow writes about the bargain book business and out of his own sense of being maligned for [...]

Oh boy, this would make like at AuthorsBookshop.com so much easier. Nearly instantly digitizing every indie book on the shelf… that would be awesome.
Sorry the video is too wide for the column!

It is the job of a publisher to know just where a book can sell if she chooses to publish a title. That being said all has changed with the advent of e-book marketing. Just as the whole publishing industry itself is going to be altered and the schools that support it will be too, [...]

Tonight we visit with Jack Kammer about getting published by a major publishing company, then turning away from that to publish independently.
Jack Kammer’s book “Good Will Toward Men: Women Talk Candidly About the Balance of Power Between the Sexes” was publish by St. Martins Press in 1994 while his current book, “Heroes of the [...]

Watch it through – this is nicely surprising, and a great use of language.

Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Time: 8:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: http://umbrellaradio.org/
Obviously, every author dreams of one thing – that major label publishing contract. But what if you got it, and found out it wasn’t everything everyone dreams of? What if, in fact, it turned out to be a pretty terrible experience – bad for you and bad [...]

Brad’s guest this week is going to be answering questions that I am asking myself as well. As an e-book publisher, my partners and I are struggling with the real world cases of how the traditional publishers have thus far taken advantage of or just plain demeaned a good deal of the writers out there.
It [...]

I say to the road rather than on the road only because I do not want to usurp another’s proud name. We who do the Itinerant Book Show and plow through the towns along mostly I-80 to tell the story of the book world as it is evolving today. I also share a growing collection [...]