Blurbbist: a new and ill-advised venture
Many established authors started receiving emails from Blurbbist, a new platform that manages, and enables payment for, book blurbs.
Many established authors started receiving emails from Blurbbist, a new platform that manages, and enables payment for, book blurbs.
While the average person may not detect any changes at Goodreads, the company is retiring its API access and disabling existing API keys.
Redlining Culture, just released from Columbia University Press, is generating buzz and conversation in traditional publishing circles.
Rather than having to file a costly case in federal court, authors can now bring cases, without an attorney, to a Copyright Claims Board.
Written Word Media released the results of their latest author survey. This year, they’ve broken down responses based on authors’ incomes.
News Problems have surfaced at Small Press Distribution. A former employee is alleging wage theft and abuse by management; a range of presses and writers have issued statements of support and solidarity. Read their Dec. 11 letter of concern to SPD. A new fair use case has important implications for anyone writing parody. A court found that a … Read more
AI makes strides in writing and reading, new services and tools emerged to meaningfully assist publishers, authors, editors and marketers.
Publishers say they are committed to diversity and inclusion, but concerns linger that their efforts may be performative.
2020 was unique in that success (or failure) depended largely on a completely external factor: the pandemic
Wicked Son will focus on “publishing sharp-edged political and cultural commentary as well as history, fiction, philosophy, and other books of Jewish interest.”