William Deverell went down the self-publishing road for Kill All the Lawyers. This may be the first of many self-pubbed Deverell books, and publishers should be watching.
Kodak waited far too long to truly embrace HD digital image capture, and the major publishers are waiting far too long before they will eventually be forced to truly embrace e-books rather than trying to sabotage them with high prices and lousy royalties.
There's a shift going on in publishing that publishers and agents should be discussing over their lattes in the boardrooms of Manhattan.
Amanda Hocking, the indie e-pubbed bestseller, credits book bloggers for taking her from a minimum wage dead end job to millions of books sold through Amazon and Smashwords.
Author Barry Eisler shocked the publishing world when he walked away from a $500,000 deal with St. Martin's Press so that he could self-e-publish his next John Rain novel.
Genre fiction is selling so well on Kindle that Amazon is stepping further into the publishing roll. They've opened up an imprint, Montlake Romance, that will publish everything from paranormal romance to suspense romance.
Fogel and I have been debating how e-books will affect freelance editors. I'm guessing that people who want to indie e-publish will be swamping freelancers in-boxes with edit requests.
My short story, White Metal, took the cover of the Storyteller Magazine's fall 2006 edition, but this is not that
Less than a week after Barry Eilser walked away from a $500,000 dollar contract with St Martin's Press so that he could self-publish his next novel, Amanda Hocking, the self-publishing star who has sold over 2 million copies of her e-books, has signed a seven figure deal with St. Martins for her next four novels.
So I'm working my way through the Smashwords Style guide, and I'm surprised to discover that they want me to put a long warning about copyright infringement at the beginning of my e-books.