One of Germany’s major publishers offers two platforms to self-published authors—and one of them leads toward the traditional industry, not away from it.
Tapping Into the Minecraft Audience to Market Books
Hybrid German author Karl Olsberg describes how he leveraged the huge audience of Minecraft fans to sell a series of novels based on the game.
Berlin’s Re:publica14: Making the Internet Strong and Free
Re:publica14 in Berlin offered a glimpse into the German internet psyche, which is consumed with issues of net neutrality, censorship and political pranks.
Is Self-Publishing and Open Access Viable for Art Publishing?
A German art foundation is experimenting with an open-access self-published monograph as an ebook. Could this be a model for other institutions looking for greater exposure?
Germany’s Netizens Have Not Abandoned the Book
At Berlin’s re:publica conference netizens showed their continuing enthusiasm for the book at talks dedicated to library digitization, metadata, and how the internet is changing literary writing.
New Book Prize Offers 20,000 Euros to German Self-Publishers
Online voters will determine which self-published books deserve to win Der Neue Buchpreis and cash at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair.
German Self-Publishing, Where Innovation Meets Angst
In Germany old publishing habits die hard. But the country’s burgeoning self-publishing industry is challenging the status quo.