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Day: April 18, 2018

Alliance of Independent Authors Goes All In for Blockchain

November 14, 2022April 18, 2018 by Jane Friedman

Blockchain’s potential value to authors, as evangelized by its fans, is most easily understood as a sort of financial copyright.

Categories Self-Publishing Tags London Book Fair

Closing Image: April 18, 2018

November 30, 2022April 18, 2018 by Jane Friedman

Closing image: The rising popularity of poetry on social media is driving a resurgence in poetry book sales in the United States. Learn more from NPD.

Categories Industry Research Tags Book sales, Poetry

Hot Sheet Index: April 18, 2018

November 14, 2022April 18, 2018 by Jane Friedman

The Hot Sheet Index reviews the percentage of poetry books sold by Instapoets in the last year as well as the growth of poetry since 2015.

Categories Industry Research Tags Book sales, Poetry

Links of Interest: April 18, 2018

November 14, 2022April 18, 2018 by Jane Friedman

News and Trends Three of the largest publishers saw flat sales in 2018. Simon & Schuster and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the two smallest of the large publishers, did better than their rivals. Jim Milliot in Publishers Weekly looks at the lack of growth in the US and Western markets. How Trump is shaking up acquisitions in New … Read more

Categories Links of Interest Tags Amazon, Big Five

Gender Discrimination in Indie vs Traditional Publishing

November 14, 2022April 18, 2018 by Jane Friedman

Dana Beth Weinberg and Adam Kapelner of Queens College compared gender discrimination in traditional book publishing vs. self-publishing.

Categories Industry Research, Traditional Publishing Tags indie publishing

The Curious Case of the CreateSpace 1099

November 14, 2022April 18, 2018 by Jane Friedman

Amazon unwittingly serves as a means to launder money via self-published books. The Authors Guild has raised a warning flag.

Categories Amazon, Self-Publishing Tags Authors Guild, ebooks

Amazon Wins Arbitration against at Least One Bad Actor in Kindle Unlimited

November 14, 2022April 18, 2018 by Jane Friedman

KU pays authors per page read, but the funds come from a communal pool—meaning anyone cheating the system is also cheating other authors.

Categories Amazon Tags Kindle Unlimited

At London Book Fair, Some Things Unspoken: Nonfiction and Brexit

November 14, 2022April 18, 2018 by Jane Friedman

That effort to whistle past the grave possibilities was dear to many UK publishing folks this spring at the London Book Fair (LBF).

Categories Culture and Politics Tags Brexit, London Book Fair

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