by Warren Whitlock | May 13, 2013 | publishing
E-books captured 11% of all book spending last year, up from 7% in 2011, Kulo reported, while e-books accounted for 22% of units in 2012, up from 14% the prior year. In 2010, e-books accounted for only 2% of spending. Despite the gains made by digital, paperback...
by Warren Whitlock | May 8, 2013 | publishing
Ebook Sales Continue to Grow E-Book Sales Here’s a report from a publishing industry magazine with a mission to show us that the traditional publishing industry is going to keep printing books (we know that) and not to worry about e-books. Electronic books...
by warren | Apr 21, 2013 | publishing
This year, when Mr. Mamet set out to publish his next one, a novella and two short stories about war, he decided to take a very different path: he will self-publish. When the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author David Mamet released his last book, “The Secret...
by warren | Mar 6, 2013 | Book Marketing, publishing, Selling on Amazon
I heard about Jamie McGuire and here fight with Amazon. I didn’t know much on the details, so I read the following on a blog post by Kristen Eckstein Often, the facts of these stories are as “big company is the bad guy” as much as I’d like to...
by warren | Nov 5, 2012 | publishing
I don’t advocate e-book piracy, but it’s time we got real about the effects. Publishers and other purveyors of old media have a lot invested in a system that paid well for them over the last Century or so. Authors gave up control of their work and the...
by warren | Aug 21, 2012 | publishing
While several colleges across the country are pushing digital textbooks, touting them as more efficient and less cumbersome than regular textbooks, students are reluctant. E-textbooks still account for only 9% of textbook purchases, says Student Monitor, which...
