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Will We Ever Be Able To Trust Online Reviews?
iStockphoto / Natee127 ‘Fake Reviews Are Still Rife’ Three summers ago, in August 2012, one of the hottest stories of the year came from the book-retail sector. The author John Locke had confirmed to...
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When Authors Yell ‘Everybody Into The Pool!’: Another Viewpoint
iStockphoto: AzmanL What Writers Say To Agents After The Party Many types of comments are generously added to articles, of course, here at Thought Catalog and in other places. It’s a form of sharing,...
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‘Publishing Goes Pop,’ Part 2: Is A Fan A ‘Quantified Reader’?
iStockphoto / Simon Podgorsek Michael Bhaskar: ‘Fans are critical to what it means to be a publisher today’ Historically, publishing meant amplification. “Making stuff available,” Canelo Publishing’s...
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Is Online Life Real Life? Ask E.L. James. No, Ask Chuck Wendig
iStockphoto / EHStock One Big Gray (Not Grey) Area Of Rage Online is IRL. It’s all real. This is all really happening… It’s not a show, no matter how much we want it to be. That’s the author Chuck...
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1.1 Million Copies Later: Go Mock A Watchman
iStockphoto / iculizard ‘I Told You So’ In under a week, Harper Lee’s Go Set A Watchman has sold more than 1.1 million copies in the States, according to HarperCollins, as reported by Sarah Weinman at...
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2 New Efforts In Publishing Diversity: ‘Learning From Each Other’s Narratives’
iStockphoto / statu-nascendi ‘There Are So Many Reasons To Write’ We’ve joined the global conversation on the intersection of race and writing. But is it enough? Therese Walsh Well, no, it’s not...
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Gray Areas: ‘The Elements’ Of Good Book Apps
Among several products Theodore Gray has produced relative to ‘The Elements,’ the Periodic Table Quilt is a collaboration with Nina Paley. Image: PaleGrayLabs.com ‘Programmers Need To Be Treated As Top...
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Wischenbart, Jones, And McCabe: Sightings Of A ‘Second Disruptive Wave’
iStockphoto / SerrNovik ‘My Personal List Of Ebook Headaches’ Sorry to interrupt that fun-in-the-sun thing you’re doing, but some chilly winds are blowing in on a topic you may have thought you left...
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Give Her Credit: Sarah McIntyre Crusades With Class For Book Illustrators
Sarah McIntyre and unidentified bird / Image provided by the artist #PicturesMeanBusiness And So Does She Sarah McIntyre. Image: Jabberworks.co.uk/about Once you break yourself of tweeting to her as...
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Reader Analytics: Not All Authors Want To Know
iStockphoto / tinors Your Soul Vs. Data? When Jellybooks’ Andrew Rhomberg wrote at Digital Book World recently about publishers having a Fear of Data in an age of digital metrics, I thought that taking...
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Age, Surveys, And Income: The Authors Guild’s View
iStockphoto / Type17 ‘Only One Piece Of The Puzzle’ Subsequent to our report on the Authors Guild’s release of results from its 2015 Member Survey, I’ve invited the Guild to provide some interpretation...
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Setting A Compass: Those FutureBook Manifestos In A Storm-Tossed Industry
Credit: iStockphoto / Elena Belozorova Sinking Into The Pubslush Years into publishing’s encounter with the digital dynamic, it’s not as if anything is holding still, is it? A kind of heaving grace is...
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Frankfurt Focus: YouTube, BookTube…PublisherTube?
At BookExpo America 2015, YouTube authors, a major draw. Image: Porter Anderson Wide-Eyed And Bookish In the United Kingdom, Zoe Sugg—known as Zoella to her huge fan base—has pulled off the kind of...
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Publishers And Authors: Inviting Them To The Same Party
iStockphoto / Svetl Every Job In Publishing Depends On Authors How is book publishing divided today? Let’s not count the ways. Outsiders looking into this beleaguered industry, however, might be...
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SELF-e And The World’s Authors: Is English Our Lingua Franca?
iStock / Shujaa 777 ‘Keep Calm And Study English’ “Since the smashing success of the first Harry Potter novel—which was a No. 1 bestseller in Germany in its English version at one point—we have...
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Adult Coloring Books: Only Half-Good For Publishing
Twenty20 / mlesniowski Color Us Skeptical One of the things the book publishing industry produces best is confusion. Its gray areas (not unlike its Grey areas) are fogs of speculation, partial truths,...
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