Category Archives: Publishing

One E-Book World?

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Cora

I’m still following the Frankfurt Book Fair reporting on TV. Tonight there was another mention of the indie publishing phenomenon on aspekte, a well respected cultural magazine program. This mention was shorter and a lot more negative than yesterday’s. Basically, … Continue reading →

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Germany discovers Indie Publishing II

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Cora

The Frankfurt Book Fair, the biggest gathering of the global publishing industry, is going on at the moment. And one consequence of book fair is a greatly increased coverage of literature and publishing topics in the media. Now that I’ve … Continue reading →

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Germany discovers Indie Publishing

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Cora

First of all, readers in Belgium and Monaco can also purchase Pegasus Pulp (or any other) e-books via Amazon France without paying the 2 dollar Amazon surcharge. None of this changes that the European e-book market is still very small. … Continue reading →

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Indie Publishing Links for the Day of German Unity

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Cora

October 3 is the Day of German Unity, which commemorates the German reunification on October 3, 1990. Since it’s a fairly new holiday and one that never really had an emotional connection for many people (I explain why here), there … Continue reading →

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I’m not a content-creating brand: Two additions to yesterday’s post

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Cora

I have a couple of additions to yesterday’s post: First of all, Kristine Kathryn Rusch dissects the Mike Shatzkin post I linked to yesterday. Interestingly, I had not made the connection between Shatzkin’s “content-creating brands” and indie authors, partly because … Continue reading →

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Author versus Publisher – the Female Edition

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Cora

In the past week, there have been some interesting developments in the field of author versus publisher conflicts with agents caught in the middle. All of the current conflicts involve female writers for some reason: A literary agent responds to … Continue reading →

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New Discussions of Eternal Topics

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Cora

The latest doom and gloom article comes to you courtesy the New York Times. This time around, it’s not publishing itself or the print book that’s declared dead but the mass market paperback. If mass market paperbacks were actually to … Continue reading →

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Now computers are writing fiction – is this the death of publishing?

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Cora

Expect my August sales figures as well as a new story in the next few days. But for now, here is another linkdump. And sorry about the melodramatic headline, but if it gets me views and people who buy books, … Continue reading →

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Indie Publishing Link Round-up

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Cora

Here is yet another “Wah – the book is dead and western culture is dying along with it” article, this time by one Ewan Morrison. The Guardian seems to have cornered the market in doom and gloom articles about the … Continue reading →

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Kindle woes, more nomenclatura, the resurrection of the gothic and the usual gloom and doom

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Cora

Kindle Direct Publishing has been experiencing hick-ups over the past few days, so you still have to wait for the official launch of the next Pegasus Pulp e-book. Alas, the story is already available at OmniLit/AllRomance ebooks and XinXii. In … Continue reading →

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