exploitation: The act of using another person’s labor without offering them an adequate compensation.Are writers being exploited? I’m talking about writers working for what I call Big Publishing (Hachette, […]

Authors, agents and retailers welcome science fiction publisher’s announcement that its entire ebook list is to become DRM-freeTor, the world’s biggest science fiction publisher and home to authors including Orson […]

A new app lets you interact with the story of Victor Frankenstein and his monster, Joyce Maynard’s To Die For arrives as an ebook and Scottish crime writers reveal their secretsA new take on Mary Shelley’s […]

Some claim that literary fiction has ‘lost the next generation’ of readers – but brilliant writing remains as important as everThe death knell has been sounded for literary fiction often enough that it’s great to […]

With online groups working to sift out the hidden gems, and a New York co-operative instituting a ‘seal of quality’, is the world of independent publishing finally getting organised?A new public service is […]

Despite an increase in digital sales of 366% last year, printed books remain the choice for the majority of readers, figures showConsumer ebook sales in the UK increased by 366% last year helping to offset a […]

The decision by Tor Books to ditch digital rights management signals the beginning of the end of the ebook format warsAt the end of April, Tor Books, the world’s largest science fiction publisher, and its UK […]

Millions of fans have signed up to JK Rowling’s digital experience to cast spells and fight duels, with more interactivity and The Chamber of Secrets promised ‘soon’Hogwarts, the wizarding school at the centre of […]

Many writers rely on income from library loans, says the Society of Authors, in calling for digital books to be included in PLR schemeAuthors are calling on the government to remunerate them when their ebooks are […]

Lawsuit accuses Apple and publishers of colluding to break up Amazon.com’s low-cost dominanceApple and five major book publishers have failed to persuade a US judge to throw out a lawsuit by consumers accusing […]

Wired’s Threat Level blog has some coverage of the latest hearing in the current round of U.S. Copyright Office DMCA exemption hearings. Topics argued today included the iPhone jailbreaking exception, cracking CSS […]

Here are a few stories to read this morning.Adele (The Passive Voice)Amazon to Sell Ads on Kindle Fire Welcome Screen (Advertising Age)Final Score in the Georgia State Game: Library 94, Publishers 5 (The Scholarly […]

This morning I was alerted to a big mistake lit agent Scott Eagan made, and then his humorous attempt to cover it up by deleting it, all documented nicely here at Passive Guy’s blog. (See, Scott? It’s important on […]

CNet reports that Simon & Schuster, who has already settled its antitrust dispute with the Department of Justice, has joined HarperCollins and Hachette in settling the price-fixing class-action lawsuit by 29 […]

On the Columbia Journalism Review, Ryan Chittum has a rebuttal to a number of recent posts about e-book production costs and price, including the post by Mathew Ingram that I covered here. Though the article is […]

Galleycat reports that children’s author Jean C. George has passed away at the age of 92. George is best known for her books Julie of the Wolves and My Side of the Mountain, the latter of which was one of the […]

We all ssumed when the Nooklit launched a few weeks ago that it likely had a different set of guts from the earlier model, but it wasn’t until today that we knew how different.Tech Republic cracked open their […]

If you’re familiar with Blendtec’s “will it blend” series of viral commercials then you might be interested on this clip. Over the past few weeks Pork Barrel BBQ has been posting their own version of the Will it […]

Amazon ‘s own print-on-demand service CreateSpace has just announced a new distribution venue. This sub has been printing and distributing books in the US ever since Amazon bought it in 2005, and as of today it […]

From the press release: CreateSpace, an Amazon.com company, today announced that authors and publishers around the world can now use its independent publishing platform to distribute their books in Europe for free […]