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In a long bad-news article, this is the “good” news: “One slush stalwart—the Paris Review— has college interns and graduate students in the magazine’s Tribeca loft-office read the 1,000 unsolicited works submitted each month. Each short story is read by at least two people. If one likes it and the other doesn’t, it is read [...]
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“The line that once sharply separated traditional publishing (“We pay you”) and vanity publishing (“You pay us”) has all but dissolved in this corrosive environment of fabulous riches.” — Richard Curtis via E-Reads
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“Why has the launch of Harlequin Horizons provoked such a gigantic firestorm of indignation” when similar ventures haven’t?” asks Victoria Strauss via Writer Beware Blogs!
“Author Solutions has teamed up with Harlequin to form Harlequin Horizons, a new imprint for self-published romance authors. The imprint will recruit [...]
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Ernest Hemingway’s biographer, A.E. Hotchner, comments on a new “restored edition” of A Moveable Feast, revised by an heir. “All publishers, Scribner included, are guardians of the books that authors entrust to them. Someone who inherits an author’s copyright is not entitled to amend his work. There is always the possibility that the inheritor could [...]
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You can be pretty sure that a bookstore will not come to your home and steal the books off your shelf.
Last week Amazon angered customers and ignited a firestorm on Twitter by remotely deleting some digital editions of books from the Kindle devices of readers. [New York Times]
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In her newsletter, agent Kristin Nelson shares a discussion she had with two other literary agents: “We agreed that for some of our projects, a year ago an editor would have bought the novel and then worked on some revisions with the author. This year, editors are passing and asking for the revisions first before [...]
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The legend that John Grisham self-published his first book persists, but it’s not true. He was not an overnight success, though. It took him three years to write A Time to Kill and two years to get it published. Then he drove all over the state to meet people and sell copies during the time [...]
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The Espresso Book Machine prints books for customers while they wait and may be key to future survival for small, independent bookstores. Once the catalog of books available by this method grows, bookstores could easily compete with Amazon. A lovely part of the bookstore experience is browsing through books, though, so I sure hope this [...]
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“Until recently, the young-adult fiction section at your local bookstore was a sea of nubile midriffs set against pink and turquoise backgrounds. Today’s landscape features haunted girls staring out from dark or washed-out covers.” [via Wall Street Journal]
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A children’s book editor critiques first pages. Lots to learn here. (And clients think I’m picky. Heh. heh.) Read the Anonymati.
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According to Bowker, 285,394 new books were published by print-on-demand companies in 2008, a 132% increase compared to previous year. This is the second consecutive year of
triple-digit growth. Traditional publishers put out 275,232 new books and editions in 2008 — a 3.2% decrease compared to the year before. The biggest declines for traditional publishers came [...]
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