‘Libraries Transform’ to Answer Needs of Community, Authors Porter Anderson “ Led by the American Library Association, the U.S. library system is in furious transition. At the association’s Midwinter Meeting in Boston, BiblioBoard’s pivot reflected libraries’ new roles as enabling hubs of community culture.
Turning Trajectory’s Book-Analysis Tech Loose On #SOTU Porter Anderson “ Normally focused on distribution and recommendation algorithms for publishers from Europe to Asia, Boston’s Trajectory has analyzed all the presidents’ State of the Union addresses ahead of Tuesday night’s Obama speech.
In Self-Publishing, The Gatekeepers Are Dead. Long Live The Gatekeepers! Porter Anderson “ In a rich signal of a maturing self-publishing sector, the author Hugh Howey opens a new dialog on the unthinkable: the importance of quality control — if the readership writers need is to be expanded.
‘The Overselling Of Self-Publishing’: New Perspective Porter Anderson “ The publishing specialist Jane Friedman asks authors to reconsider a widely popular trend toward self-publishing as a means of attracting a traditional contract. “A serious epidemic of impatience,” she calls it.
May The Best SELF-e Win: Library Journal Ups The Ante Porter Anderson “ As the new SELF-e program gives indie authors a curated pathway into libraries for their ebooks, Library Journal opens a contest in four genres of submissions.
What’s The Real Question? — Why We Don’t Read More? Or, Are Books Still Our Best Bet? Porter Anderson “ From two strong voices in today’s publishing commentary, questions of how books can be accommodated in a digitally-fast age, and whether we’re doing all we can to make them worth the effort.
An Author Speaks Directly To Publishers: Kathrin Passig’s Commentary In Berlin Porter Anderson “ In an unusual opening to a publishing industry conference, German author and journalist Kathrin Passig speaks of the collaborative imperative — and shortcomings she has observed — in the author-publisher relationship today.
In And Around London Book Fair: Authors, IndieReCon And ALLi’s Third Anniversary Porter Anderson “ Following the Author HQ program at London Book Fair, the Alliance of Independent Authors held its IndieReCon in London to do reconnaissance on ALLi’s first three years of international operation and writerly progress.