Archive for April, 2008
DailyLit Begins Syndicating Books Pre-Release
Earlier this week DailyLit announced its first pre-publication deal for House Rules which will be published in 139 installments for $9.95. This marks the site’s first opportunity to syndicate a book before the print release.
DailyLit began with mostly public domain works, syndicating them to readers in snack-sized chucks via email and RSS. Recently, [...]
Weekend Reading 04/11/08
Agents Getting Preferential Reads
(tags: agents publishing books)
Penguin’s frontlist goes digital
(tags: ebooks publishing penguin uk)
Hillary’s Blog Dilemma
(tags: politics blogging blogs)
daydreaming about a better textbook
(tags: books textbooks ebooks)
Binary or Bust: DRM or no DRM, that is the question - Part 2
(tags: DRM ebooks)
Guy Kawasaki Likes Me, He Really Likes Me!
Ok, maybe thats a bit dramatic, but Guy and his team were nice enough to add this blog to the Alltop Books listing. I see colleague Joe Wikert is listed as well.
So, how does Alltop select sites for inclusion?
We use a patent-pending, semantic computational algorithm derived from the post-doctoral work of Guy at Stanford. [...]
HarperCollins Profit Sharing Might Not be a Better Deal for Authors
Today, HarperCollins announced the formation of a new publishing group that will eliminate author advances in favor of profit sharing, and requires book store purchases to be on a non-returnable basis. The New York Times article seems to summarize the announcement well.
First, let me congratulate HarperCollins on hiring Robert S. Miller to run the [...]
Interesting reading for 04/03/08
On The Eve of The London Book Fair
(tags: books)
The Times they are a Changin
(tags: books writing publishing)
Do you have a BlogHer Hero?
(tags: blogher contest wiley)
Pirillo Does it Best
(tags: video)
