Bestselling writer, Simon Winchester, starts small-town paper

In Erin's Perspective by Erin L. Cox

By Erin L. Cox In the hamlets of America and even in big cities, the print news industry is declining.  While book publishers are finding a way to work with the eBook industry, the threat of blog-news and 24-hour news cycle is hurting print editions of major newspapers and closing papers in small towns and hamlets around the country. But, …

German Buch News: Monetizing Online Content; Twitter Poetry

In German Buch News, News by Siobhan O'Leary

By Siobhan O’Leary Newspaper publishers could learn a thing or two from reference book publishers about getting people to pay for online content, or so says Sandra Schüssel, editor of the Börsenblatt in a recent editorial. Newspaper circulation is decreasing at a rate of 300,000 copies per year in Germany. The solution, according to Schüssel, lies in creating and monetizing …