News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. I missed doing a News & Notes post last week due to unavoidable circumstances (i.e., moving our daughter into college!)… Read more »
Category: self-publishing
Traditionally vs. Self-Published Books (again!)
Yesterday, M @ My Closet Catalog posted a comment on the Print Books vs. Ebooks (again) post, asking “Now I’d love to hear your thoughts regarding professionally published vs. self-published.” By the time I finished answering her, I had a whole post… so here it is. I’ve written about that… Read more »
News & Notes – 6/28/14
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. I had to skip News & Notes last week because I was out of town with very limited Internet, so… Read more »
News & Notes – 6/14/14
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: With Father’s Day coming up, join the #DadsRead campaign hosted by Zoobean and The… Read more »
News & Notes – 3/15/14
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Amazon raises the price of Prime to $99 per year. According to the email… Read more »
Are self-published authors “real” authors? One writers’ union opens its ranks
The Writers Union of Canada votes to open membership to self-published authors Last June, delegates at annual general meeting of the Writers Union of Canada voted unanimously to open membership to self-published authors, subject to a two-thirds majority vote in a union-wide referendum. The referendum passed with a 79% majority,… Read more »
News & Notes – 3/08/14
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: The Writers Union of Canada is opening membership to self-published authors. I’ll be writing… Read more »
News & Notes – 2/22/14
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Apple still defiant after losing its appeal over the scope of the court-appointed monitor’s… Read more »
News & Notes – 1/11/14
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: “Mary Shelley letters discovered in Essex archive”: A collection of 13 previously unpublished letters… Read more »
News & Notes – 12/07/13
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Today is ‘Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day’. (I wish I could, but… Read more »