Indie authors are burning up the bestseller e-charts in the United Kingdom, according to a press release this month from Amazon.co.uk. The company says independent British writers are matching the success of Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader with its Kindle Direct Publishing platform to take top spots in the Kindle Store’s bestseller list. In the last… [Read more…]
February 24, 2012
Lulu.com is reporting that it was the top source of independent content on the iBookstore and Nook Bookstore last year. According to a Friday post on the Lulu site, ebook creators published 115,517 new ebooks on Lulu.com in 2011, an increase of 22 per cent over 2010. More than 60,000 of those titles are now… [Read more…]
February 16, 2012
Edinburgh will set itself aglow with literary history next month as part of the Scottish capital’s push to raise its profile as a world cultural centre. The two-week event, Enlighten, will see animated interpretations of Enlightenment quotations projected onto historic buildings in the city’s New Town area. The words of David Hume, James Hutton, Allan… [Read more…]
February 5, 2012
CBC News reports that Nova Scotia children’s author Joyce Barkhouse has died following a heart attack. She was 98. The author of eight books and many children’s stories, she was probably best known for Pit Pony, the story of a boy and his horse working in the Cape Breton coal mines, which was published in… [Read more…]
February 4, 2012
Rabble.ca writer Wayne MacPhail is enthusiastic about the new Apple iBooks Author as a tool for journalists and publishers of long-form content. Apple introduced the iBooks Author last month as part of its plunge into the educational/textbook market, but MacPhail thinks the publishing software could serve as a platform for a new form of media-rich… [Read more…]
February 4, 2012
Jonathan Franzen is definitely not jumping on the ebook bandwagon. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph’s Anita Singh, the author of Freedom and The Corrections said he prefers a more permanent technology. “The technology I like is the American paperback edition of Freedom,” he told Singh. “I can spill water on it and it… [Read more…]
February 28, 2012
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