The digital age has largely reduced the word publisher to a commercial function. But shouldn’t it represent something more, something higher?
If, as Friday’s Writing in a Digital Age Conference in London underscored, technology is driving change in publishing, why are publishers’ websites still ‘universally awful’?
Twitter takes practice. Cindy Ratzlaff, @BrandYou, shares her master class tips for publishers who want to promote themselves and their books on Twitter.
Marketing and media professionals share their insights on latest trends and innovations in book promotion from Tuesday’s Publishing Perspectives Reaching Readers conference.
Porter Anderson previews this week’s BookExpo America and ponders how changes at the fair reflect the ongoing transformation of ‘the industry, the industry!’
In this week’s PublishNews Brazil: Brasilia’s debate on future of digital publishing, FNLIJ’s awards for kid’s lit, and the Gothenburg Book Fair’s focus on Brazil in 2014.
When it comes to the future of the internet, Chinese and American companies are facing off and taking very different strategies. Which is likely to be victorious?
Ideas not technology should lead story development in the digital age, says multiplatform creator Matt Costello, a featured speaker at next week’s StoryDrive China conference.
Several new high profile interactive fiction titles have been released so far this year, suggesting that publishers and readers may finally be ready for the medium.
Ether for Authors: Could Beta Readers Ease the Impatience?
The week’s online debates: the utility of beta readers, the prevalence of ‘bad books,’ social DRM, Kickstarter for books, and the death of the personal journal.