Anna Todd, whose ‘After’ series has more than 1.5 billion reads, follows Simon & Schuster contracts with an indie series selling fast into world markets.
Flirting With New Readers in The Philippines: Wattpad Presents
WattPadPresents is a special multimedia program that the reading and writing platform uses in The Philippines to leverage TV and film for authors.
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.
Fifty Shades of Copyright Infringement?
At Addicting Info Nathaniel Downes makes the case that Fifty Shades of Grey is based on ‘a flagrant violation of copyright laws.’
Download this Report on Children’s Ebooks and Fanfiction
As a preview to next week’s Launch Kids track at the Digital Book World conference, download this free report on children’s ebooks and fanfiction.
Amazon’s Licensing Vonnegut for Fan Fiction Draws Fire
Amazon announced a Kindle World license for the books of Kurt Vonnegut, but not everyone thinks it’s a great idea.