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The Rejection Letter of the Future Will Be Silence (And Why This Is a Good Thing)
Filtering the Digital Deluge E-book self-publishing is changing the way authors succeed or fail. How should publishers and literary agents adapt to this new environment, and how should authors decide which route to take? Check out the lively discussion at Nathan Bransford’s blog.
Molly Ringle Writes the Worst Sentence of 2010
Here’s an Award to Be Proud Of! And the winner of this year’s contest for the "Worst Opening Sentence . . ." You editors out there? Take note!
Will Digital License Plates Be The New Billboard?
Don’t Text . . . But Read My Plate! Just as I try to get used to those annoying blue headlights on cars, now I might actually be mesmerized by the changing license plate in the car stopped ahead of me? Yikes!
Joni Eareckson Tada to Undergo Surgery for Breast Cancer
Bestselling Author Needs Our Prayers Her books have sold millions and she’s been an inspiration to many more. Prayers for our friend Joni as she undergoes surgery for breast cancer.
100 Years Later, Mark Twain’s Autobiography Set to be Published
His Dying Wish It’s been sitting in a vault for nearly a century. At the wishes of the author, who died in 1910, his autobiography will be released this year—one hundred years after his death.
Ghostwriting and the Political Book Culture
So Are We Getting the Whole Story? A presidential (first lady, congressman, congressman’s aide) memoir is a hot ticket to the best-seller list, and a sought-out commodity for publishing houses. But who’s writing them and are we getting the facts, really? While ghostwriters are extremely valuable, how much power do they wield? —Elise Speiser
Who Knew Editing Could Be So Dangerous? Seriously, though, we want to be producing good books for a long time, so for those of us editing, designing, producing, running numbers, reading proposals, let’s do our best to stay healthy and avoid these six heath risks.
The iPad, the Kindle, and the Future of Books
New Moves in the Chess Match against Amazon Publishers are flocking to the iPad to pressure Amazon into raising its ebook prices. Google is preparing to enter the ebook distribution fray, though with a friendlier stance toward brick-and-mortar bookstores. In this article Ken Auletta helps us get a handle on the new market forces publishers are having to contend with in an increasingly digital environment.
Isabella top name for girls; Jacob No. 1 for boys
Oh, The Power We Have! Who knew that we in publishing could have a lifelong influence—literally—on numerous babies? Yep, have a big enough splash and those characters’ names may end up on many a birth certificate!
Project Puts 1M Books Online for Blind, Dyslexic
And Lest We Forget . . . With all this talk about iPads and new digitized content, one group in San Francisco is not forgetting the visually-impaired and dyslexic, for whom the latest visual technology means little. Their goal? One million books available to these select groups.
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