Publishing | Reviews Daemons in the Mist & Manhunt: Coming Attractions By Maryann Yin on May. 25, 2012 - 10:23 AM Here are some handpicked titles from our New Books section. Want to include your book? Just read our Facebook Your New or Upcoming Book post. Don’t forget to include your title’s exact release date and a link. Into This Worl ...
Digital Adobe Adds iPhone Optimizing Tool By Dianna Dilworth on May. 25, 2012 - 9:23 AM Adobe has upgraded its digital publishing toolkit to include a content viewer for iPhone, as well as social sharing features. This means that publishers can use the software to make apps that are optimized for the iPhone and iPo ...
Comic Books | Digital Trajectory Makes Digital Comics Out Of Classics By Dianna Dilworth on May. 24, 2012 - 4:38 PM There is a colorful new way to read Ivanhoe, Moby Dick and The Three Musketeers in the Kobo eBookstore, and it’s not through public domain ePub files. Digital publisher Trajectory has signed a content distribution deal with ...
Authors | Social Media Jennifer Egan to Publish Sci-Fi Story on Twitter By Jason Boog on May. 24, 2012 - 3:42 PM Novelist Jennifer Egan will publish a complete science fiction story on The New Yorker Fiction Twitter feed over the next few nights. The New York Observer reported that the experiment will begin tonight at 8 p.m. ET. Egan (pictur ...
Digital | Resources Don’t Let the Writing Life Kill You By Jason Boog on May. 24, 2012 - 3:23 PM Journalists, novelists, screenwriters, bloggers and all other kinds of writers have one thing in common: we spend way, way, way too much time hunched in front of a computer. A recent study in Australia discovered that sitting for ...
Bookselling | People | Resources | Social Media 50 Shades of Grey Sales Bump: INFOGRAPHIC By Jason Boog on May. 24, 2012 - 3:07 PM Goodreads has created a massive infographic analyzing the Fifty Shades of Grey effect around the country. Vintage has already sold ten million copies of E. L. James‘ erotica trilogy, and the literary social network discovere ...
Social Media Hachette Authors Share Chapters Via Facebook App By Dianna Dilworth on May. 24, 2012 - 2:47 PM The Hachette Book Group’s new ChapterShare app lets the publisher put out excerpts from a book that can be read on an author’s Facebook page. It launched this week with exclusive excerpts from chapters of James Patters ...
Book Biz How To Pitch Brown Literacy Agency By Dianna Dilworth on May. 24, 2012 - 2:47 PM To help you put together a winning pitch for an agent, Brown Literacy Agency founder Roberta Brown shared a few tips at mediabistro.com. Brown’s literary agency represents New York Times bestsellers Sarah McCarty and Lorie ...
Book Biz Brooklyn Teens Can Enter Brooklyn Lit Match Writing Contest By Maryann Yin on May. 24, 2012 - 2:23 PM The 7th annual “Brooklyn Lit Match” teen writing contest has started accepting submissions. All of the winning entries will be compiled into an anthology which will be published by Akashic Books. The grand prize winner will al ...
Resources Writer Confronts Alleged Plagiarist on Video By Jason Boog on May. 24, 2012 - 11:06 AM When All American Blogger Duane Lester discovered that a Missouri newspaper had allegedly plagiarized one of his blog posts, he drafted a letter and visited the newspaper with a video camera. You can watch his entire confrontation ...