Alliance of Independent Authors Goes All In for Blockchain
Blockchain’s potential value to authors, as evangelized by its fans, is most easily understood as a sort of financial copyright.
Day: April 18, 2018
Closing Image: April 18, 2018
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.
Hot Sheet Index: April 18, 2018
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.
Links of Interest: April 18, 2018
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
Gender Discrimination in Indie vs Traditional Publishing
Dana Beth Weinberg and Adam Kapelner of Queens College compared gender discrimination in traditional book publishing vs. self-publishing.
The Curious Case of the CreateSpace 1099
Amazon unwittingly serves as a means to launder money via self-published books. The Authors Guild has raised a warning flag.
Amazon Wins Arbitration against at Least One Bad Actor in Kindle Unlimited
KU pays authors per page read, but the funds come from a communal pool—meaning anyone cheating the system is also cheating other authors.
At London Book Fair, Some Things Unspoken: Nonfiction and Brexit
That effort to whistle past the grave possibilities was dear to many UK publishing folks this spring at the London Book Fair (LBF).